Archive for ‘global warming’
Biotech companies race for drought-tolerant crops
January 14th, 2008
Outside the headquarters of Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc, the pavement is iced over and workers arriving for the day are bundled up against the cold. But inside a laboratory, a warm, man-made drought is in force, curling the leaves of rows of fledgling corn plants as million-dollar machines and scientists in white coats monitor their distress.
Popularity: 5%
EU to call for strict sustainability rules on biofuels
January 14th, 2008
The European Union is to call for strict rules on the types of biofuels that can be used across the bloc in order to avoid damaging the environment, officials in Brussels said Monday.
Popularity: 5%
Obama in Council Bluffs
January 13th, 2008
An excerpt about global warming from the Senator’s Town Hall meeting in Council Bluffs, IA.
Popularity: 6%
Address to the DEC Pt.1
January 13th, 2008
Senator Obama addresses the Detroid Economic Club and sets fourth some of his plans for America’s energy policy. (Part 1of 2)
Popularity: 6%
Earth Day In Iowa City
January 13th, 2008
Barack Obama speaks to volunteers and a crowd of 10,000 people on Earth Day in Iowa city.
Popularity: 4%
IL Environmental Leaders For Barack Obama
January 13th, 2008
Illinois environmental leaders speak about their support for Barack Obama.
Popularity: 3%
Dorn Cox - NH Enviromentalist
January 13th, 2008
New Hampshire supporter and environmentalist, Dorn Cox.
Popularity: 5%
Energy And Environment Plan
January 13th, 2008
Barack talks about his plan for decreasing our dependence on foreign oil and preventing global climate change.
Popularity: 5%
Follow Germany on renewable energy, Clinton says
January 12th, 2008
Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton wants America to follow Germany’s lead — and her own — in using environmentally friendly fuel sources and making homes and buildings more energy efficient.
Popularity: 5%
Northeast winters warming fast
January 12th, 2008
Earlier blooms. Less snow to shovel. Unseasonable warm spells. Signs that winters in the Northeast are losing their bite have been abundant in recent years and now researchers have nailed down numbers to show just how big the changes have been.
Popularity: 3%
Calif leaders voice EPA frustrations
January 11th, 2008
A panel of outraged state and environmental leaders met Thursday to examine why the federal government won’t let California and 16 other states regulate emissions from cars, trucks and SUVs.
Popularity: 4%
World warming despite cool Pacific, Baghdad snow
January 11th, 2008
Climate change is still nudging up temperatures in the long term even though the warmest year was back in 1998 and 2008 has begun with unusual weather such as a cool Pacific and Baghdad’s first snow in memory, experts said.
Popularity: 2%
“Nano” a no no for environment
January 11th, 2008
Selling for less than half the price of the current cheapest car in the market, it is India’s version of the Volkswagen Beetle in Germany or the Mini in England.
Popularity: 5%
UN weather agency aims to beef up climate change monitoring
January 11th, 2008
The UN weather agency (WMO) said Friday it planned to expand its use of the world’s satellites to provide more accurate weather forecasting and to monitor climate change better.
Popularity: 4%
Deep sea probe to track Australia climate change
January 10th, 2008
Australian and U.S. scientists will send an unmanned submersible 2.5 kms (1.5 miles) deep into the ocean off Australia next week to track climate change by studying coral at unprecedented depths.
Popularity: 4%
