January 5, 2008 – 3:02 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
By Judy Pasternak, The Los Angeles Times, December 30, 2007. “On the brink of a nuclear power resurgence in America, the once-vilified industry is buoyed by a slate of presidential candidates who seem ready to embrace — or at least consider — a nuclear energy future. Already enjoying strong support in the White House, nuclear-fueled […]
November 25, 2007 – 3:34 am
The fund will support cleaner petroleum technologies
Wagdy Sawahel
23 November 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Four Arab Gulf states have pledged a total of US$750 million to a new fund for tackling climate change.
The announcement was made on 18 November at the end of a two-day summit for leaders of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) held in […]
November 2, 2007 – 2:23 pm
ScienceDaily (Oct. 29, 2007) — A novel MIT study concludes that increasing levels of ozone due to the growing use of fossil fuels will damage global vegetation, resulting in serious costs to the world’s economy.
The analysis, reported in the November issue of Energy Policy, focused on how three environmental changes (increases in temperature, carbon dioxide […]
November 1, 2007 – 5:41 am
Oceana protecting the worlds oceans
Most global warming pollution comes from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) including driving cars and trucks. Any serious effort to deal with global warming must involve changes in the way we use and produce energy, including the development of more fuel-efficient vehicles.
The most recent report by the Intergovernmental […]
September 27, 2007 – 3:18 am
EarthJustice
Washington plant contradicts voter mandate and state law seeking cleaner energy
September 19, 2007
Seattle, WA — Seeking to stop a power plant that would spew millions of tons of global-warming pollution into Washington skies, several leading environmental and clean-energy groups have filed to intervene in the permitting process for Energy Northwest’s proposed 680-megawatt coal-fueled facility in […]
September 20, 2007 – 10:30 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
The Environmental Toll and the Promise of Biofuels
By Joel K. Bourne, Jr., The National Geographic Magazine, October, 2007 issue
“Producing fuel from corn and other crops could be good for the planet — if only the process didn’t take a significant environmental toll. New breakthroughs could make a difference… Some studies of the energy […]
August 31, 2007 – 5:58 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
Global Warming ‘Could Delay the Next Ice Age by 500 Million Years’
Agence France-Presse, August 30, 2007
“Burning fossil fuels could postpone the next ice age by up to half a million years, researchers at University of Southampton in southern England.said on Wednesday… The world’s oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere but in […]
August 29, 2007 – 8:54 pm
TreeHugger
Imagine a world without traffic congestion, where cars could drive themselves and where humans, equipped with “clever clothes,” could take flight at a moment’s notice. A new book on the future of transport by two New Zealand professors, Chris Kissling and John Tiffin, envisions just such a world — where nanotechnology, satellite communications and computer […]
August 10, 2007 – 6:13 am
Maryke Steffens
7 August 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Lead researcher,
Veerabhadran Ramanathan,
with unmanned aircraft
Brown clouds of pollution that stretch over the Indian Ocean during the dry season are warming the climate just as much as greenhouse gases, say scientists.
According to a study, published last week (2 August) in the journal Nature, these ‘atmospheric brown clouds’ could be directly responsible for […]
SciDev.Net
The oil in Jatropha seeds is
used to make biodiesel
Charles Mkoka and Mike Shanahan
Source: SciDev.Net
Osman Ibrahim is encouraging farmers in Malawi to abandon their traditional tobacco crops and enter the energy sector — by planting a tree called jatropha (Jatropha curcas).
Its seeds contain an oil that can be blended with conventional gasoline or diesel to make […]
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