WorldChanging Team: What do you get the globally conscious grad who has everything? If you're looking for something unique, you're probably stalling out somewhere between the hemp...
Book Review: Seven Wonders Cities of the Future, Today New Fish Farms Move from Ocean to Warehouse Go Vote in Dell's Green Computing Design Competition
Connecticut based Northeast Lamp Recycling is now NLR: Next Level for Recycling. Besides the name change, NLR has also launched a new Web site, nlr-green.com, & a new comprehensive recycling program for compact fluorescent lamps.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) have agreed to work together to slash the CO2 emissions caused by members of the postal sector.Under the agreement signed in Berne last week by Achim Steiner, Executive
These monthly UAV flights will provide unprecedented data for evaluating how long range transport of pollutants including ozone, soot and other particulates from the northwest United States, Canada, east Asia and Mexico mix with local pollution and influence our air
A newly formed watchdog of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is proposing that the U.N. establish a new authority to regulate emissions from high-carbon international activities such as aviation and shipping. The International Scientific and Business
HIGH gasoline prices could lead to a dramatic saving in US greenhouse-gas emissions. That's the conclusion of economists in the US, who suggest high fuel prices are turning consumers off SUVs and onto smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.What's more, car owners
Turn greenhouse gases to stone? Transform them into a treacle-like liquid deep under the seabed?The ideas may sound like far-fetched schemes from an alchemist's notebook but scientists are pursuing them as many countries prepare to bury captured greenhouse gases in
This summer's Beijing Olympics will be "basically" carbon neutral thanks to a series of energy saving measures such as the use of solar power and an afforestation program, a senior official said on Thursday. Technology Minister Wan Gang said that
The aviation industry's failure to curb its soaring carbon emissions could lead to the "worst case scenario" for climate change, as envisaged by the United Nations. An unpublished study by the world's leading experts has revealed that airlines are pumping
Consumer companies are getting greener, but they are still quite carbon-intensive, according to a study to be released today. Nonprofit group Climate Counts will release its second annual rankings of 56 consumer companies today on how they measure greenhouse gas
uthorities in India's remote northeast said they were increasing security in the world's biggest reserve for the endangered great one-horned rhinoceros to save them from poachers.Poachers have killed at least 10 rhinos in two national parks in Assam state since
The Sierra Club sent letters on Tuesday threatening to file suit to stop construction of eight coal-fired power plants in six states because, the environmental group claims, they violate the Clean Air Act.
A new programme to develop low-cost technologies to reduce post-harvest losses will be launched in Ethiopia this year.The six-year programme will run at Jimma University College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (JUCAVM) in Ethiopia, with US$3 million funding from the
