Energy and Environment
AP (via Yahoo!) reports that the Bush Administration has established three protected zones in the Pacific Ocean, using national monument status to protect the areas from fishing and mining.
DARMSTADT, Germany — From the outside, there is nothing unusual about the stylish new gray and orange row houses in the Kranichstein District, with wreaths on the doors and Christmas lights twinkling through a freezing drizzle. But these houses are part of a revolution in building design: There are no drafts, no cold tile floors, no snuggling under blankets until the furnace kicks in. There is, in fact, no furnace.
A proposed new definition of 'seawater' is drawing the attention of the world's oceanographic community in a change that will advance the accuracy of climate science projections.
Were those of us who believed an Obama administration would be more friendly to science right?
Global warming, some have argued, can be reversed with a large-scale "geoengineering" fix, such as having a giant blimp spray liquefied sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere or building tens of millions of chemical filter systems in the atmosphere to filter out carbon dioxide.
Former inhabitants of the Amazon Basin enriched their fields with charred organic materials-biochar-and transformed one of the earth's most infertile soils into one of the most productive.
In pursuing cleaner energy there is such a thing as being too green. Unicellular microalgae, for instance, can be considered too green.
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Energy Farming Summit 2009
Researchers in Nevada are reporting that waste coffee grounds can provide a cheap, abundant, and environmentally friendly source of biodiesel fuel for powering cars and trucks.
Increasing pressures from climate change will reach a tipping point in less than a decade triggering a significant decline in the health of the planet's coral reef ecosystems according to the findings in an international report issued today.
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Energy Farming Summit 2009
A stylish new car pulls up to the U.N. climate talks
Converting forests or fields to biofuel crops can increase or decrease greenhouse gas emissions, depending on where -- and which -- biofuel crops are used, University of Illinois researchers report this month.
By discovering the meaning of a rare mineral that can be used to track ancient climates, Binghamton University geologist Tim Lowenstein is helping climatologists and others better understand what we're probably in for over the next century or two as global warming begins to crank up the heat — and, ultimately, to change life as we know it.
Growdiesel Climate Care Council is pleased to invite you to the inaugural International Summit on Energy Farming to be held on 12th & 13th April 2009 at New Delhi, India. The Summit is focused on adopting financially viable energy farming activity for generating feedstock for next generation of Biofuels besides producing fertilizers, food & feed.
