| US greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.9 percent in 2008 US greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.9 percent in 2008 amid a recession and record high petrol prices, according to a preliminary estimate Tuesday from the US Environmental Protection Agency... | |
| Testosterone can make you nice as well as nasty A researcher has shed light on how testosterone affects human behavior in a 'pro-social' situation - an environment where it is beneficial for a person to help someone... |
| Finavera Renewables announces private placement and development loan development loan. The loan has a one year term with an annual interest rate of 12% and is secured against a minority interest in the Company's Cloosh Valley wind project until such time as the loan... |
| Huge trees not for highways BRANCHES of trees in busy roads and expressways breaking off and falling onto roads during thunderstorms is a common occurrence. It is frightening for motorists to be held up in a traffic jam near... |
| Federal Cloud IT Platform Slow to Rise as Cloud Environment Evolves Pitched as a virtual field of dreams that would help make data-storage issues and server problems disappear, the federal government's cloud IT services platform, a year in the making, will be delayed... |
| ENVIRONMENT-UGANDA: Landslides - Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come KAMPALA, Mar 9, 2010 (IPS) - Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual. But Mar. 1 was not a... |
| The story behind Power of 10 Guardian Media Group 's 'Power of 10' sustainability vision and strategy has been the culmination of a two-year process of change.Each business within the group had already been developing its own... |
| EBay Highlights the Environmental Appeal of Buying Used green.ebay.com , and in the ads, eBay makes the case that buying something used is as environmentally correct as conservation and recycling. “Most people think you have to make a product in a... |
| Security environment more difficult: Narayanan KOLKATA: The security environment in West Bengal has become more difficult than the past year and meeting the challenge would require, among other things, filling vacancies in the police force,... |
| Cleanfield Reports Record Revenue in Third Quarter Fiscal 2010 - Sales /CNW/ - Cleanfield Alternative Energy Inc. ("Cleanfield", TSX-V: AIR), an international leader in Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) technology solutions, announced today that it reported record sales... |
| Another water project could divide the state Mario Santoyo, 53, assistant general manager of the Friant Water Authority, gives a tour of Millerton Lake. The son of Central Valley farmworkers, he helped found the California Latino Water... |
| Bush Interior secretary discusses transformation to enthusiastic environmentalist Lynn Scarlett, who left a libertarian think tank to join the Interior Department, eventually leading it, says the environment is something conservatives "must grapple with to be relevant in the 21st... |
| Chilean earthquake moved entire city 10 feet, researchers say GPS measurements show the city of Concepcion shifted to the west. The magnitude 8.8 quake also moved the capital of Santiago about 11 inches... |
| Invasive GE Eucalyptus Threatens Southern Forests & Water The U.S. Department of Agriculture re-released their draft environmental assessment [1] regarding a request by ArborGen, a subsidiary of timber giants International Paper and MeadWestvaco, to plant... |
| Canada's seal debate, dead in the water | Colin Horgan Spotted seals. Canadian authorities say seal hunting provides valuable income for isolated communities. Photograph: China Daily/Reuters In a move that seems almost designed to raise the hackles of... |
| Dominican Republic’s Environment chief wants Barrick Gold’s contract revised Santo Domingo. – Environment minister Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal today suggested a revision of the Government’s contract with the Canada based mining company Barrick Gold, so it pays for the... |
| Switzerland stands strong against GE Switzerland — The Swiss Parliament has just extended its ban on the cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) plants for three more years. Originally enacted in 2005, Switzerland will stay... |
| Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid opens 12th Water Technologies, Energy and Environment Exhibition Mar 9, 2010 - 07:47 - WAM Dubai, Mar 09th, 2010 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance and President of Dubai Electricity and Water... |
| Britain could force owners to microchip their dogs LONDON (AP) - British dog owners may be forced to microchip their pets and take out insurance, part of a proposed crackdown on the country's dangerous canines. Postmen are delighted, but civil... |
| GE: Limit PCB contamination during Hudson dredging ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - General Electric Co. on Monday proposed halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second phase of... |
| US-born panda freed from quarantine in China CHENGDU, China (AP) - After a month in quarantine, American-born panda Tai Shan paced around his new home in southwest China as he was put on public display Tuesday for the first time since his... |
| New EMC Celerra Software Cuts VMware Environment Storage Space in Half, Doubles Cloning Speed and Automates Failback HOPKINTON, Mass., March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today extended its leadership in storage for VMware environments with... |
| heipha, Biotest, and MODA Introduce Pre-barcoded Culture Media Plates with Automated Solution for Paperless Environmental Monitoring EPPELHEIM, Germany, ROCKAWAY, N.J. and WAYNE, Pa., March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- heipha Dr. Muller GmbH (heipha), a member of the Biotest Group and leading manufacturer of high-quality culture media for... |
| 2010 Tyler Environmental Prize Winners Announced Posted on: Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 08:25 CST Laurie Marker of the Cheetah Conservation Fund and Stuart Pimm of Duke University recognized for scientific and management contributions to the... |
| Why won't the GWPF tells us who funds them? The Global Warming Policy Foundation calls for transparency among climate scientists but refuses to make public its donors. Maybe its new employee can help... |
| The 'waterless' washing machine that could save you money The Xeros washing machine uses up to 90% less water than a conventional one. Photograph: Xeros Ltd "Dry" cleaning is set to become a domestic activity with a washing machine that uses 90%... |
| INTERVIEW - New climate partnership planned to protect forests OSLO (Reuters) - Governments will seek a new climate partnership in 2010 to protect tropical forests with funds going through the United Nations, the World Bank or bilateral channels, Norway said on... |
| Large Hawaiian retailer buys into Smartcool savings /CNW/ - Smartcool Systems Inc. is pleased to announce the recent completion of a five store installation in Hawaii with the US-based chain, ABC Stores Group. The positive results recorded from this... |
| Go-Green.ae promotes 'Earth Hour' Go-Green.ae has launched an online campaign to promote the Earth Hour, from 8.30-9.30pm local time on Saturday, March 27. As part of the campaign all people across the planet are invited to join the... |
| Environmental Waste International Provides Text of Ellsin Environmental Release Environmental Waste International Inc. (EWS) (TSX VENTURE:EWS) provides the following text of an announcement made by Ellsin Environmental Ltd. ("Ellsin"). "Ellsin has reached a milestone in its... |
| Do plasma screens have a greater carbon footprint than printed posters? | Leo Hickman I was wondering if you could help with something that's really getting on my nerves – not least because it seems to necessitate closing Archway tube station at frequent yet random intervals,... |
| Environment groups sue EUover biofuel documents - Summary Brussels- A coalition of environmental groups announced Tuesday that they are suing the European Union's executive, the European Commission, alleging that it has refused to hand over documents on the... |
| Sonic increases size of private placement to a maximum of $4 million /CNW/ - Sonic Technology Solutions Inc. ("Sonic") (TSXV: SNV) is pleased to announce that it is increasing the size of its previously announced non-brokered private placement unit offering to a... |
| Environment-friendly firms in Dubai get certificates Dubai: Almost a dozen companies across the emirates have qualified for a ministry-issued Environmental Performance Certificate (EPC) which regulates that industrial businesses are operating in... |
| Fire destroys Durban stores By Rizwana Sheik Umar Firefighters this morning extinguished a fire that destroyed three offices and declared the buildings next to the gutted Pixley KaSeme (West) Street block safe. A fireman... |
| Last chance for bluefin tuna, too late for real conservation International — So the world is finally waking up to the fact that the bluefin tuna is in crisis. That's nice. But decades of overfishing have pushed this majestic fish to the brink of... |
| Calling out Samsung for toxic failure Greenpeace climbers scale the Benelux headquarters of the Korean electronic giant Samsung, displaying the message "Samsung = Broken... |
| GE food: COMING SOON!?!?! - to a supermarket near you? International — Just when we thought the threat to our environment couldn't get any worse after world leaders failed to secure a deal to save the climate in Copenhagen - we're now stunned to... |
| Facebook update: Renewable energy now International — Facebook recently announced it will build a massive data centre in Oregon, U.S., packed full of the latest energy efficient computers to serve the hundreds of millions of... |
| Tokyo Two trial: Prosecution struggles on opening day Japan — It’s been almost two years since the wrongful arrest of Junichi and Toru for their roles in exposing the corruption and lies woven in the fabric that holds the whaling industry... |
| An open letter to Yukio Hatoyama Japan — Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, writes to Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, urging his Government to live up to its commitment to human rights and... |
| China blacklists polluting factories China — Industries pumping out poisonous substances day after day into rivers that entire communities rely on for their basic water needs - the reality of water pollution in China is one of... |
| Safety first: India gives Monsanto a moratorium India — Following nationwide protests against the introduction of India's first commercial genetically engineered (GE) food crop -- the Indian government has made a giant step towards charting... |
| GUILTY! Japan's justice system "breached human rights of Greenpeace anti-whaling activists" Japan — When two of our activists were detained after exposing major corruption in the Japanese whaling industry - we knew the Japanese authorities breached internationally guaranteed human... |
| No Scandal behind these gates Lately there’s been a rash of stories all ending with the word “gate” and all questioning the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the IPCC. Here’s... |
| Victory! New greener computer released in India International — This is what we like to see: a true leader in greener electronics showing giants like Dell and Samsung how it's... |
| Pledging to destroy the climate International — The first milestone of the Copenhagen Accord came and went, and with it no sign of the kind of targets for cutting global warming pollution needed to steer the world off the... |
| Putting a stop to the Arctic Meltdown Norway — Should the oil companies be allowed to take advantage of melting ice to drill for more oil in the warming Arctic? Should industrial fishing fleets be allowed to chase the last... |
| Russia is not AREVA's nuclear trash can France — The French nuclear industry seems to think it's fair to ship nuclear waste to Russia and then forget about it. They think that keeping the waste away from the French public will... |
