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A focus at the European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium is on the innovative Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, which recently became operational. Early results are proving very encouraging with its first observations due to be released in early July.
AGADIR, MOROCCO (June 23, 2010) — In a move welcomed by conservationists and pro-whale countries around the world, the International Whaling Commission today announced that it would postpone a compromise proposal that would have legalized commercial whaling. This move is a dramatic turnaround from years of secret, closed-door negotiations that led to the compromise proposal [...]
WASHINGTON (June 29, 2010) – Following a meeting between President Obama and a bi-partisan group of Senators to discuss climate and clean energy legislation, Dan Lashof, director of the Climate Center Director at NRDC, made the following statement:“The President and a bi-partisan group of Senators met today for 90 minutes to discuss passing clean energy and climate [...]
Clubs giving divers short term rentals of low carbon vehicles have been backed by the new transport minister.
WASHINGTON (June 17, 2010) – Pesticide experiments using people as test subjects will have stricter federal rules to follow under a new agreement reached today between the Environmental Protection Agency and public health groups, farm worker advocates and environmental organizations.
The portable device would supply hydrogen to the micro fuel cells of electronic gadgets
Yes, say ecologists, but not if the current enthusiasm for corn ethanol continues to hold sway
When the turbines go up, it’s not just the scenery that suffers, it’s the atmosphere too. Ed Douglas reveals the environmental costs of wind power