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Climate negotiators meeting in Copenhagen next month might or might not come up with an agreed-upon treatment for the planet’s fever, but the diagnosis from the world’s scientists is loud and clear: the globe is warming faster than anyone predicted and it’s vital that we ...
Environment
Climate Change
Colbert Report
Global Warming
Jurdy discovers another planetary problem …
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Greenbang’s weekly Climate Change Index tracks research findings and events directly attributable to global warming. Our aim is to provide a numerical, week-to-week indicator of climate change developments.
Items that qualify for listing in each week’s index include new climate data ...
Environment
Climate Change
Global Warming
Winds and tides might not be the only ocean-mixing factors affecting climate change; two scientists from the California Institute of Technology say marine-dwelling creatures could also have a significant impact as they swim through the seas .
Researchers Kakani Katija and John Dabiri at the ...
Environment
Climate Change
California
A group of researchers in the US is envisioning a future in which small devices on planes and automobiles could “scavenge” kinetic energy to generate electricity for control panels and other uses.
The team from the City College of New York (CCNY) is presenting its concept for ...
Energy/Transportation
Wind Power
Scientists have devised a new way for storing hydrogen, a breakthrough that could pave the way for new hydrogen technologies .
Researchers at the Carnegie Institution have found that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. They found that the normally ...
Other
A team of researchers recently made a surprising discovery: much of the Earth’s most valuable mineral ores exist thanks to an ancient atmosphere that was oxygen-poor but higher in sulphur .
The scientists based their conclusions on geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion years ...
Green Living
Recycling
Building more nuclear power plants is too slow and costly a way to cut carbon emissions and fight climate change, according to a new study from an environmental organisation in the US.
A better approach would be to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy, both of which could yield ...
Environment
Modern agriculture’s dependence on monoculture crops — vast fields of nothing but corn, wheat or soybeans — has been widely criticised lately for being unsustainable. However, a new study reports on how farming ants and termites have successfully used monoculture techniques ...
Green Living
Setting long-term emissions reductions targets to curb climate change is the wrong way to go, as it “gives the impression that there is time to delay,” according to scientists from the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO) in Oslo, Norway.
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Environment
Climate Change
Global Warming
Greenbang and Low Carbon South West will be among those on hand at this year’s TechnologyWorld09 conference and exhibition , scheduled for 23 – 24 November at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.
During the conference, Low Carbon South West will be hosting a special seminar on ...
Energy/Transportation
Low Carbon Energy
A new type of battery being developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could eliminate the biggest barrier to renewable energy: the fact that the sun doesn’t always shine, the wind doesn’t always blow and the waves don’t always roll.
An efficient, ...
Environment
Green Grid
Four fast-growing and innovative firms last night won recognition last night at the inaugural Cleantech Connect 2009 awards ceremony .
Held in London’s St James’, the event was organised by GP Bullhound with Schroders Private Banking as a premium sponsor.
A 150-strong crowd of ...
Energy/Transportation
An 80-year-old mistake could lead to the first extinction of a marine fish species by commercial fishing , new research has found.
The European common skate, long classified as Dipturus batis, has been on the World Conservation Union’s Red List of Threatened Species since 2006. ...
Green Living
Recycling
A high-tech ‘X-MAN Model Cancer Patient’ last night won the iaward of the Year for British innovation.
The iawards recognise cutting-edge British companies that are working to develop practical solutions to society’s greatest challenges. Award winners were named last night ...
Environment
The Edge
As if today’s unsustainable levels of energy consumption weren’t already bad enough, consider this: more than half the energy we use worldwide ends up being wasted, mostly in the form of heat. Imagine how much more efficient we could be by finding a way to tap that heat energy.
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Remember the original SimCity game, in which you inevitably always reached some horrible tipping point (though none of us knew to call it that at the time) at which everything dissolved into chaos, no matter how hard you tried to make things better?
Recent news has us wondering whether we ...
Other
A new European alliance focused on sustainable energy is set to launch tomorrow at Austria’s Graz University of Technology.
The “European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance” (ESEIA) aims to create innovations for sustainable technologies, establish an interdisciplinary ...
Energy/Transportation
The world is wasting valuable resources by not managing wastewater in the right way, according to a researcher in The Netherlands.
In fact, argues Jules van Lier of the Delft University of Technology, developing countries would be better off by not emulating the West’s standard ...
Green Living
Recycling
New research from an international team of scientists has found that the Earth’s natural carbon sinks could be becoming less efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere .
The study is published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience .
The research team, working ...
