August 19, 2010 – 9:57 am
Of all the summer news splashes the weather has managed to dominate the major headlines lately: Floods on the East Coast and down south in the United States, not to mention Deadly Deluges inundating parts of Pakistan, for instance. All of this while, Droughts in an excessively hot Russia have killed acre upon acre of [...]
It was reported in the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph that the Japanese government has launched a campaign which encourages people to get to bed and get up extra early in order to cut-down household carbon dioxide emissions. The Environment Ministry unveiled the Morning Challenge campaign, basing it on the premise that swapping late night [...]
On Friday Taiwan’s government urged their public to stop burning incense sticks and ritual money to honor the dead and instead to opt for online worshipping as it fares better with Mother Earth. The announcement by the cabinet-level Environmental Protection Administration came ahead of Monday’s Tomb Sweeping Festival, when ethnic Chinese traditionally visit the grave [...]
When age-old border disputes become resolved, peacefully, there is cause for celebration. At the very least, you can count on some sense of relief. But the end of the wrangle between India and Bangladesh over a tiny island located in the Bay of Bengal actually spells cause for concern on a global scale. Neither side [...]
A Silicon Valley start-up says that it has found a way to capture the carbon dioxide emissions from coal and gas power plants and absorb them in cement. Cement production is one of the largest sources of carbon emissions in the United States; coal-fired electricity plants are the biggest source. “With this technology, coal can [...]
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The British novelist Ian McEwan, inspired by the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks, changed the finished manuscript of his new book about a scientist working on a technology to address global warming. The end of the book is set in summer 2009, and McEwan introduced a new scene, in the last few pages, in [...]
Victims of Hurricane Katrina are moving to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the tragic 2005 storm. The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains during the storm, was first filed just weeks after Katrina hit in August of [...]
The European Union is probably the most progressive bloc of countries in the world when it comes to green policies, trumping the United States in many areas like climate legislation and restrictions on toxic chemicals. So why is an American attorney seeking to bring lawsuits against the bloc and its member states for environmental shortcomings? [...]
February 23, 2010 – 2:33 pm
Top researchers are in agreement that the world is likely to see stronger in intensity yet fewer in frequency hurricanes in the future – and this is because of global warming. Since right before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005, dueling scientists have sparred over whether global warming is worsening hurricanes. A new [...]
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