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Wave energy is among the impressive list of renewable energy resources that is being developed in the United States. New Jersey-based developer, Ocean Power Technologies has launched a project that features the nation’s first commercial wave power farm off the coast of Reedsport, Oregon. Once the project is completed, wave energy will generate power [...]
Spiny dogfish, a fish and chip shop staple sold in Britain for decades, is to disappear from our dinner plates amid concern the rare species of shark is dying out.
NEW YORK (March 1, 2010) — The Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund has teamed up with some of the biggest names in music to encourage Americans to speak up in the ongoing conversations on climate change.
Since 2004, University at Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has worked intensively with teams of scientists in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, northern Finland and Kamchatka to understand how humans living 4,000 to 6,000 years ago reacted to climate changes.
LOS ANGELES (March 4, 2010) – This week marks the tenth anniversary of a monumental victory mobilizing millions of people to protect Laguna San Ignacio – the last undisturbed breeding place for the Pacific gray whale – located on the west coast of Mexico’s Baja California Sur. Caving to public pressure spearheaded by the Natural [...]
”Biodegradable” plastic bags used by major supermarkets do not break down as quickly as believed and may not be as environmentally-friendly as they sound, according to Government-funded research.
Why reinvent the wheel for harvesting the sun’s power when there’s a masterclass going on under our noses?
Environmentalists are furious about the Venezuelan president’s plans for a giant oil pipeline to unite the continent
How do you keep an energy-hungry developing country from turning into a carbon-spewing monster? New Scientist went to find out
Sarah Lonsdale tests the latest ‘eco’ products and sorts the fads from the finds. This week: how to keep the draught out.