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There has been research work going on to increase the efficiency of the cost-effective amorphous solar panels. TU Delft has been the center where this research work is being developed. The research will directly help in increasing the efficiency of amorphous solar cells – from a 7% to a 9%. Crystalline silicon is most [...]
This morning, starting at ?5.30am, teams of Greenpeace volunteers havebeen shutting down BP stations across London.We aim to close dozens down this morning.
Watch the action as it happens – pictures,video and text updates from the teams.
The teams – each named after an animalthreatened by BP’s reckless oil exploration – fanned out acrossthe capital in their [...]
Looking for new opportunities for energy efficiency at a deeply green company is like trying to find a gift for a person who seems to have everything. For the EDF Climate Corps fellow at Yahoo! it means expanding his search for energy savings across the company’s global operations.
Right-wing think tanks that deny climate change is even happening are advocating climate engineering to fix it. Don’t heed them, warns Clive Hamilton
WASHINGTON (July 27, 2010) — The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today against the Food and Drug Administration for failing to issue a final rule regulating the chemicals triclosan and triclocarban, which are commonly found in antibacterial soaps. These chemicals are suspected endocrine disruptors linked to reproductive and developmental harm in laboratory studies. [...]
Damselflies don’t sound like they’d do anything as dramatic as invading anywhere, and the dainty damselfly sounds like it would do so least of all. But that’s what’s happening in southern England, as several species of these delicate, smaller relatives of the dragonflies cross over from the continent and start establishing populations here.
CHICAGO (July 22, 2010) – A troubling picture of climate change impacts ravaging western North America is emerging at high elevations where an important species is rapidly disappearing. This week a groundbreaking report from the Natural Resources Defense Council and a key Endangered Species List decision both pointed to growing danger that the whitebark pine [...]