Environment on Earth

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               The word geothermal comes from the Greek words geo (earth) and thermal (heat). So, geothermal energy is heat from within the earth. We can use the steam and hot water produced inside the earth to heat buildings or generate electricity. Geothermal energy is a renewable energy source because the water is replenished by rainfall […]

Solar lights and other solar home products are, indeed, environmentally friendly. But you do not need to consider yourself an environmentalist to realize the benefits of using solar powered products.

What are some other benefits of solar powered home products? Well, when you use solar home items, your electricity bills will go down. Why pay outrageous […]

With the Games due to start in less than three weeks, Beijing cranked up antipollution measures by yanking cars off the roads, expanding mass transit and staggering work hours in a bid to meet its pledge of a “green” Olympics.
Under rules to curb smog and traffic congestion that will last from July 20 to Sept. 20, […]

Beijing’s Olympic shutdown begins, a drastic plan to lift the Chinese capital’s gray shroud of pollution just three weeks ahead of the games.
Half of Beijing’s 3.3 million vehicles will be pulled off the roads and many polluting factories will be shuttered. Chemical plants, power stations and foundries left open have to cut emissions by 30 […]

The first few thousand dollars of a $30 million dollar Canadian government fund began flowing today to help clean up excess nutrients in one of Ontario’s most beloved lake resort destinations.
Excessive emissions of the nutrient phosphorus from both urban and farm sources have upset the ecosystem of Lake Simcoe in southern Ontario, creating wild aquatic […]

With Beijing struggling to clear polluted skies before the Olympics in August, the nearby industrial port of Tianjin has ordered 40 factories to suspend some operations for two months as part of a broader effort to improve air quality during the Games, state news media reported.
The planned shutdowns in Tianjin, about 70 miles east of […]

Caretaker Federal Minister for Environment, Syed Wajid Hussain Bukhari has said that theinitiative to make country’s major cities environmentally clean and green will start with Islamabad. He was talking to journalists after chairing a high level meeting with the officialsof environment ministry and concerned departments and agencies here in Ministry of Environment on 16th January, […]