Archive for ‘pollution’
EU approves ambitious energy and climate change package
January 23rd, 2008
The European Commission approved Wednesday ambitious plans to turn the European Union into the most environmentally-friendly economy in the world.
Popularity: 7%
Biofuel production may worsen water, food problems in Asia: study
January 22nd, 2008
An international research group has warned in a recent study that continued rapid growth in biofuel production may worsen already serious water resource and food problems in Asia.
Popularity: 6%
Dozens of rare reptiles die in India
January 22nd, 2008
Conservationists and scientists scrambled Tuesday to determine what has killed at least 50 critically endangered crocodile-like reptiles in recent weeks in a river sanctuary in central India.
Popularity: 6%
Stench wafts through Gaza as sewage system falters
January 22nd, 2008
Yussef Al-Jayar jolted awake this week when gallons of raw sewage spewed out of the pumping station next door and started to seep under his door and into his mattress.
Popularity: 4%
Architect Foster sees future in green desert city
January 22nd, 2008
Imagine a city of 50,000 with no cars, no carbon, no waste, a green city of the future. Now imagine it in the Gulf desert, where summer temperatures can hit 50 degrees and 24-hour air conditioning is a way of life.
Popularity: 7%
New LV Buses Powered By Hydrogen
January 21st, 2008
The city of Las Vegas got a little greener this month when it incorporated two hydrogen-powered buses into its downtown fleet.
Popularity: 3%
EU looks to protect heavy industry in climate-change storm
January 21st, 2008
The European Union is set to give its heaviest users of energy special treatment in a forthcoming package of laws on climate change, officials in Brussels indicated Monday
Popularity: 3%
Nuclear revival rekindles waste concerns
January 20th, 2008
Thousands of canisters of highly radioactive waste from the world’s most nuclear-energized nation lie, silent and deadly, beneath this jutting tip of Normandy. Above ground, cows graze and Atlantic waves crash into heather-covered hills.
Popularity: 3%
Did oil canals worsen Katrina’s effects?
January 20th, 2008
Service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas dart everywhere through the black mangrove shrubs, bird rushes and golden marsh. From the air, they look like a Pac-Man maze superimposed on an estuarine landscape 10 times the size of Grand Canyon National Park.
Popularity: 2%
EU climate package could harm economy, top official warns
January 19th, 2008
A row within the European Union’s executive over plans to strengthen the bloc’s fight against global warming showed no sign of cooling as the EU’s top industry official warned that key parts of the plan could harm Europe’s economy.
Popularity: 4%
Bushs asks for more oil to protect economy
January 18th, 2008
This week, President Bush called on oil-producing countries to put more oil on the world market. Bush met with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Tuesday, whose country holds the world’s largest oil supply. He warned that soaring oil prices could cause an economic slowdown in the U.S., and increased production would be helpful to American consumers. Bush persuaded Egypt’s president this …
Popularity: 4%
Targets no panacea for climate change-Japan advisor
January 18th, 2008
Setting targets for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions is not the only solution to global warming nor a gauge of a country’s commitment in fighting it, an advisor to Japan’s government said, dismissing criticism that Tokyo’s leadership on the issue was too weak.
Popularity: 4%
Asia hardest-hit by disasters in 2007, group says
January 18th, 2008
Asia was hardest-hit by natural disasters last year that worldwide killed more than 16,500 people and caused $62.5 billion in damage, a U.N.-backed research group said on Friday.
Popularity: 4%
Clean Coal Greenwashing
January 17th, 2008
The AeroCivic gets 95mpg and will kill any chances you have of getting a girlfriend, go green with the EPA & Google Earth map pollution, and “Clean Coal” wants you to celebrate good times!
Popularity: 7%
Texas is biggest carbon polluter
January 17th, 2008
Everything’s big in Texas — big pickup trucks, big SUVs and the state’s big carbon footprint, too. Texans’ fondness for large, manly vehicles has helped make the Lone Star State the biggest carbon polluter in the nation.
Popularity: 5%
