Environment on Earth

As we all know, the world is about to end because of global warming. Temperatures are soaring, ice is melting, glaciers are retreating, seas are rising, and we’re all gonna fry. Pretty damn terrifying. We’re all up to here with worry about it. The Royal Society says there’s no longer any room for scientific doubt […]

Whooping cranes have waged a valiant fight against extinction, but federal officials warn of a new potential threat to the endangered birds: wind farms.

Down to about 15 in 1941, the gargantuan birds that migrate each fall from Canada to Texas now number 266, thanks to conservation efforts.
But because wind energy has gained such traction, whooping […]

A new study finds that tropical trees are better at combating global warming than trees in higher latitudes.
“The study shows that only tropical rainforests are strongly beneficial in helping slow down global warming,” said study team leader Govindasamy Bala of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Forests affect the climate in three different ways: by absorbing […]

Huaqiang, China’s largest plastic bag manufacturer, has shut because of a national environmental drive that will impose limits on their use starting on June 1, a local source.    The Henan Province-based factory stopped production in mid January and its 20,000 employees were awaiting their fate, said Liu Henglie, the commerce bureau director in Suiping County where […]

 
Smoking kills 900,000 people every year in India, and unless corrective action is taken soon that number will increase to 1 million smoking-related deaths annually by 2010 and beyond, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and conducted by scientists from India, Canada and the UK. For the study, 900 […]

French engineer Guy Negre has designed a car that runs on compressed air, produces no emissions on short trips, and can be refueled in three minutes flat.
Called the OneCAT (CAT stands for compressed air technology), the new compressed-air powered car is a lightweight five-seat vehicle that is expected to sell for about $5,000 when it […]

The massive energy bill signed by President George W. Bush on December 19 will have serious negative effects on the economy, according to policy experts.
The new law will restrict vehicle choice, mandate and subsidize expensive alternative fuels, and impose a variety of other energy restrictions on American consumers, they note.
Delivered in Prius
In what many observers […]

 ”Global soil change” due to human activities is a major component of what some experts say should be recognized as a new period of geologic time: the Anthropocene, or human-made, age.
This new era will be defined by the pervasiveness of human environmental impacts, including changes to Earth’s soils and surface geology, proponents of the theory […]

Solar thermal technology refers to the capture and utilisation of solar energy for use in heat or electricity production. Enormous potential exists to use the energy of the sun directly for a range of applications such as water heating, food drying and space heating, which have already seen widespread adoption. More sophisticated technologies are being […]

The No. 1 cell phone maker in the world is showing off a conceptual cell phone design at the GSMA Mobile World Congress that is made of entirely renewable and recycled parts. The phone, called “Remade,” was unveiled here during a keynote speech given by Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo .

 The phone is being developed in […]