reenpeace protesters clashed with coal miners at a new opencast mine on Monday in an incident highlighting Poland’s environmental dilemma on the eve of a major U.N.-led conference on climate change.
The western Polish city of Poznan will be the venue for the December 1-12 conference aimed at agreeing a new global climate package to replace [...]
Australia became an integral link in a network of tsunami warning hubs across the Indian and Pacific oceans with the official opening of a national monitoring centre.
The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre that opened in the southern city of Melbourne joins India as a “tsunami watch provider” for 29 countries on the Indian Ocean rim [...]
A scientist of Indian origin, along with his team, is developing wireless transceivers and sensors that would collect and send data about soil moisture within a field, which would improve farming.
Ratnesh Kumar, the scientist in question from Iowa State University, is hoping that the sensors will also collect data about soil temperature and nutrient content.
The [...]
The United Nations said on Monday that swathes of mountain ranges worldwide risk losing their glaciers by the end of the century if global warming continues at its projected rate.
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report that whilst nature has always observed a certain periodic rate of deglaciation, the current trends observed from [...]
The race to go green has taken to the high seas with two Japanese companies saying they would begin work on the world’s first ship to have propulsion engines partially powered by solar energy.Japan’s biggest shipping line Nippon Yusen KK and Nippon Oil Corp said solar panels capable of generating 40 kilowatts of electricity would [...]
i live in Puyallup Washington USA right by Mount Rainer does any one live by that area to and do you have a plane for what your going to do if Mountain blew.is there a phone number to call lets say you got people ederly people and there would be no way we [...]
Richard Branson gained press time by declaring that he would give over $3 Billion dollars to fight “Global Warming”.
This cause an uproar of glee among believers as that wanted all business men now to donate some of their profits to help fight the good fight, and Branson’s gift reinforced the view that global [...]
like Nuclear,solar,wind.etc
From the 3rd link, below:
“The coal industry uses the term “clean coal” to describe technologies designed “to enhance both the efficiency and the environmental acceptability of coal extraction, preparation, and use”[1], with no specific quantitative limits on any emissions, particularly carbon dioxide.”
I’ve been trying to get a better handle on what is [...]
I have read of waste water plants as a part of the answer and wondered if desalinization plants were also a method gaining more interest.
The best way to find out, is to contact the California Department of Environmental Quality :
http://www.calepa.ca.gov/
Go to Water Division, and ask for on-line data bases which contain this information, [...]
DNR, or one of those animal places where an organization puts animals in these wildlike surroundings and study them. I seen them do it with pandas and zebras on animal planet, that looked like a pretty cool job.