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High above the Venice lagoon, Greenpeace demand strong climate leadership. from the G8.
Just as ourtired activists in Italy were starting to settle in for a long night on top ofthe coal power stations yesterday, we got word that Greenpeace climbers in theUS had rappelled down the face of Mount Rushmore with a banner that challengesObama [...]
Britain’s energy system is already capable of taking a large amount of wind power,according to a new report released today by a leading energy expert.?
The report shows that there is no technicalreason why a significant amount of energy generated by wind cannot be used tosupply the National Grid.?
And, as the report is launched, Britain’sleading environmental [...]
The G8 leaders gather for the traditional ‘family photo’. But on climate, there’s little movement from the major economies.
It’s not good news from Italy, as the G8 manage to sneak under the already low bar for action on climate set by the G20 meeting in London in April. A lack of near-term targets, fiddling [...]
Puffins are to be fitted with “sat nav” devices for the first time in an effort to understand a worrying decline in their numbers.
WASHINGTON (June 24, 2009) — The Natural Resources Defense Council announced today that David Goldston, the former Chief of Staff of the U.S. House Committee on Science, will join the NRDC staff in the newly created position of Director of Government Affairs on July 6.
WASHINGTON (July 10, 2009) – A federal appeals court today rejected Bush administration rules that allowed major power plants and factories to emit uncontrolled pollution into the air in cities that already have severely polluted air. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found the Environmental Protection Agency rules illegally let plants buy [...]
Iron and manganese compounds, in addition to sulfate, may play an important role in converting methane to carbon dioxide and eventually carbonates in the Earth’s oceans, according researchers looking at anaerobic sediments. These same compounds may have been key to methane reduction in the early, oxygenless days of the planet’s atmosphere.
Hundreds of millions of oldfashioned low energy lightbulbs have been mailed to British families that often cannot use them official documents show.