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Greenpeace climbers scale the Bank of England. Green, not greed – well, it’s a nice idea.
It’s a cliché, but these are troubled economic times. And so it was that with great fanfare the government’s pre-budget report announced a ?50 billion recovery plan for the British economy.
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Presence of surplus carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has taken center stage in the environmental science. All over the world people are worried about the excess amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because it’s causing undesirable changes in the surroundings such as green house effect, global warming, melting of ice caps on the [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 24, 2009) – Twenty years after the massive Exxon Valdez oil disaster in Alaska, oil spills still occur and the risk of them happening up and down the East and West Coast has increased after the more than three-decade moratorium on offshore drilling was lifted in the waning months of the Bush [...]
A chirping frog jumping spiders and a striped gecko were among more than 50 new animal species scientists have discovered in a remote mountainous region of Papua New Guinea.
Creating a sustainable garden.
The South Downs has become Britain’s newest national park in a victory for countryside campaigners.
Light bouncing off clouds and illuminating tiny particles in the atmosphere can brighten clear sky for kilometres – the finding could be bad news for climate models
Power plants emit carbon dioxide, algae make sugar and oil out of it. It’s time to put the two together
The discovery that a wide variety of bacteria can be persuaded to produce conducting, wire-like appendages boosts the potential of biofuel cells
A fuel pellet that is better at conducting heat than conventional pellets could make nuclear power cheaper and more efficient