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Environmentalists are continuously searching for green and clean fuel. Until now they have been putting a lot of energy and talent into hydrogen fuels because when hydrogen is burned, the only emission it makes is water vapor. So it is a great advantage that burning of hydrogen doesn’t produce carbon dioxide. Clearly, hydrogen is [...]
Could cosmic rays be influencing climate by charging up more frequent lightning storms? Several factors influence global climate change. Long-term influences that work over hundreds of thousands of years have an astronomical origin, namely the eccentricity, axial tilt and precession of the Earth’s orbit.
GE releases a citizenship report today that demonstrates that the $183-billion company is becoming not just cleaner and greener, but more open.
“Our engagement for climate protection should be independent from Copenhagen,” the newly-elected chair of the European Parliament’s environment committee, German Social Democrat MEP Jo Leinen, told EurActiv in an interview, stressing that “if Copenhagen is a success, all the better; if not, we have to stick to our job”.
From the top of an Italian smokestack, Ben explains why we’re telling G8 leaders to act now on the climate. We need strong leadership – what comes out of the G8 paves the wya for the upcoming Copenhange UN climate summit in December, which is the best moment of opportunity for averting dangerous climate change. [...]
In a report released tomorrow (Monday) the CBI is expected to call for the contribution from wind power to be reduced in favour of nuclear energy as means of decarbonising the electricity sector.
Commenting on the CBI report, Greenpeace executive director John Sauven said:
"The CBI claims to represent the interests of British industry, but [...]