 Oil powered Norway gradually turns into the wind 15 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
As Norway prepares for a future after oil, the gale-force potential of harvesting wind power off its long coastline has become an increasingly attractive proposition. | |
 Japan aims to cut emissions by 60-80 pct by 2050: reports 17 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Japan aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by between 60 and 80 percent by 2050, news reports said on Sunday, as part of measures setting out the country's long term environmental goals. | |
 Artificial reef near Miami is cemetery, diving attraction May 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(AP) -- About 45 feet beneath the ocean's surface lies a cemetery with gates, pathways, plaques and even benches. The Neptune Memorial Reef, which opened last fall, is seen by its creators as a perfect final ... | |
 Amazon under threat from cleaner air May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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The Amazon rainforest, so crucial to the Earth’s climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air say prominent UK and Brazilian climate scientists in the leading scientific journal Nature. | |
 EU still far from agreeing biofuel standards: diplomats May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The European Union remains far from agreeing on how to tighten its rules for using biofuels, diplomats said Wednesday amid growing opposition towards such forms of energy. | |
 First-of-its-kind 14-country study ranks consumers according to environmental behavior May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan today unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior as it relates to the environment. “Greendex™ ... | |
 Reservoir larger than Manhattan planned to help Everglades May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Around South Florida's vast sugar cane fields, where turtles grow to the size of basketballs and alligators own the marsh, the silence of the swamp is broken by the sound of rumbling trucks and explosions. | |
Western states rebuff plan for Italian nuclear waste in Utah May 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Eight Western states on Thursday rejected a company's plan to ship tons of radioactive waste from Italy for disposal in Utah, saying importing foreign loads would violate the group's rules. | |
Ponds found to take up carbon like world's oceans May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Research led by Iowa State University limnologist, or lake scientist, John Downing finds that ponds around the globe could absorb as much carbon as the world's oceans. | |
 Chilean troops force volcano evacuations May 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Police and soldiers cleared the last remaining people from the shadow of a Chilean volcano on Thursday after a strong, overnight explosion spewed glowing-hot rocks from its crater. | |
 Fighting global warming — at the dinner table May 05, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Substituting chicken, fish, or vegetables for red meat just once a week can help combat climate change — even more dramatically than buying locally sourced food, according to scientists in Pennsylvania who ... | |
 Palm oil wiping out key orangutan habitat: activists May 07, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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One of the biggest populations of wild orangutans on Borneo will be extinct in three years without drastic measures to stop the expansion of palm oil plantations, conservationists said Wednesday. | |
 IT gurus launch software cleanup of Estonia May 04, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Skype guru Ahti Heinla and Microlink and Delfi founder Rainer Nolvak put cutting-edge IT technology and 40,000 volunteers to work Saturday to clean-up the tiny Baltic Sea state of Estonia. | |
 Baltic sea ice cover hits an all-time low: meteorologists May 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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The extent of ice covering the Baltic sea this winter reached an all-time low, since measurements began more than a century ago, Swedish meteorologists said. | |
Federal agency declares West Coast salmon fishery a disaster May 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Federal authorities have declared the West Coast ocean salmon fishery a failure, opening the way for Congress to appropriate economic disaster assistance for coastal communities in California, Oregon and Washington. | |
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