Stranded dolphins: rescuers’ race against time
Rescuers were last night engaged in a frantic race against time to save scores of beached dolphins in the biggest mass stranding of marine animals in Britain for almost 30 years.
Archive for June 11th, 2008
US government ‘failing to protect polar bears’
Two conservation groups say they will sue the US government for not doing enough to protect polar bears from the effects of oil exploration and drilling off Alaska’s coast.
Power cuts blamed on “antiquated energy system”
Tuesday’s power cuts were due to an "antiquated energy system", according to
environmentalists.
Robin
Oakley, head of Greenpeace’s climate and energy campaign,
said: "Britain’s antiquated centralised
energy system relies on a few large power stations, such as our aging and
increasingly unreliable nuclear power plants. When they fail the impact can be
enormous. Sizewell B for example, the plant that failed on [...]
Top Five Ethical Summer Dresses
Tempting as it is to raid Topshop as soon as the weather warms up, there’s really no need with the selection of affordable and chic dresses from ethical labels. Start by browsing Adili or my current favourite, the LaLesso website. Yes, you may have to order online, but at least this keeps you away from [...]
Climate change: The latest global developments
An unprecedented rise in global temperatures due to man-made climate change is releasing unnatural levels of CO2 into the earth’s atmosphere, according toLa Malebrancheof Total Energies. Her spring 2008 paper argues that it is time for governments to initiate changes in human behaviour to stop this trend.
Stranded dolphins ‘were scared ashore’
Post-mortem tests on some of the 26 dolphins which died after they were stranded in a Cornish river indicate they were “scared ashore”, marine experts said today.
Government under pressure on energy as green groups echo campaign think tank
A call by David Cameron’s favourite think tank for a radical new approach to UK energy policy was today echoed by the UK’s biggest green groups. Policy Exchange is calling for the kind of greenhouse gas efficiency standard that is applied to cars to now be applied to power stations. The call comes on the [...]
Exfoliation produces lighter, cheaper solar cells
A new process of creating ultra-thin photovoltaic cells has been developed by US researchers – the new cells also have a higher electrical output
Solar Speedboat Gets 30 Knots
Here’s another flashy concept that uses solar energy for transportation: the solar speedboat! Unlike the solar sailor we talked about earlier, the Dutch MK1 prototype is designed to travel at speeds up to 30 knots! In 2006 the Delft Technical University Solarboat Team raced the speedboat to first place in the Nuon Frisian Solar [...]
Space-based Solar Power
American scientist Peter Glaser proposed the idea of using space solar power in 1968. The fast depleting conventional energy resources renewed the interest for trapping the solar power via satellites. Right now the usual alternative energy methods have their own shortcomings. Hydro power plants disrupt ecosystems and human habitats. Minimum rain threatens hydro power. [...]