Archive for July 17th, 2009

Solar Lanterns for Sub-Saharan Africans

When one lives in a developed country it becomes hard to visualize that how people manage in those parts of the world where electricity is still a distant dream. Residents of the village Ahire, Maharashtra in India claimed that people didn’t want to marry their daughters in their village due to lack of electricity. [...]

Nick Cobbing’s images of the Arctic

Photographer Nick Cobbing’s spectacular photos from the Arctic Sunrise’s Arctic expedition are featured on the Telegraph website here. Take a look, for ice sheets, kayaking along meltwater rivers, and polar bears in their natural habitat.

Cameroon: Climate Change – Parliamentarians Pursue Crusade

African parliamentarians want governments of industrialised countries to provide enough funds to fight climate change.

Government to ’strive’ towards low carbon without credits

The Government has committed itself to tough long-term carbon reduction targets and promised to ’strive’ to meet them without resorting to trading with other countries.

Arctic sea full of huge blobs of floating ‘goo’

Huge blobs of mysterious “goo” are floating in the Arctic sea off the coast of Alaska according to local reports.

First ‘climate friendly’ labels appear on foods

Sweden has brought in the stickers in the hope is that consumers will buy greener products – but will companies make claims they can’t back up?

Nick Cobbing’s images of the Arctic

Photographer Nick Cobbing’s spectacular photos from the Arctic Sunrise’s Arctic expedition are featured on the Telegraph website here. Take a look, for ice sheets, kayaking along meltwater rivers, and polar bears in their natural habitat.

A bank for wind power

A last we can store vast amounts of wind energy and use it when we need it, as New Scientist reports

IEA’s U-turn on energy growth

The International Energy Agency calls for limits on growth of energy demand for the first time

‘Evanescent coupling’ could power gadgets wirelessly

Electronic devices would start charging themselves as soon as their owner walks into their home or office

 

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