Archive for ‘pollution’
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%
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%
“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%
Real World Green: Be more Green, move to New York
January 10th, 2008
You’d think living in the country is greener than living in a dirty city. Think again.
Popularity: 3%
Shoppers: It’s BYO bag in China
January 9th, 2008
Declaring war on the “white pollution” choking its cities, farms and waterways, China is banning free plastic shopping bags and calling for a return to the cloth bags of old — steps largely welcomed by merchants and shoppers on Wednesday.
Popularity: 4%
Pollution alert declared in Sarajevo after days of heavy fog
January 9th, 2008
The first of three levels of alert on dangerous air pollution was declared in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, the Ministry of Environmental Planning of Sarajevo Canton confirmed Wednesday.
Popularity: 2%
Ice town sweats from global warming
January 9th, 2008
China’s hometown to ice sculptures, Harbin, is suffering from global warming.
Popularity: 5%
Muck makes money — Naples garbage is mafia gold
January 9th, 2008
“For us, rubbish is gold,” is how one Italian gangster explained the mafia’s involvement in waste trafficking to an investigating magistrate in Naples. Areas of the southern city have ground to a halt this week because of piles of rotting rubbish and sometimes violent protests about what to do with it, and Italians are questioning whether organised crime …
Popularity: 4%
Car makers rethinking strategy for 2008
January 9th, 2008
German car makers are rethinking their model strategies for 2008 amid a new car sales slump and the growing image problems faced by performance cars with high carbon dioxide emissions.
Popularity: 5%
New approach needed to save coral reefs-study
January 8th, 2008
A growing human population is pushing coral reefs in the Caribbean to breaking point and saving them will require a new, larger-scale approach, researchers said on Tuesday.
Popularity: 4%
Insurers paying to rebuild greener homes
January 8th, 2008
Sean Walsh returned to his mother’s San Diego home after the October wildfires to find it charred to its foundation. He says he plans to help her rebuild the trilevel, five-bedroom abode — happily used to host 19 grandkids — exactly as it was, only greener.
Popularity: 3%
