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Climate Change Message Being Taken to the Top of Mount Everest

A sherpa set off to climb Mount Everest for a record 19th time to take an anti-climate change message to the world’s highest peak

6 Apr 2009

Business Students Win With Plan to Clean Up Polluted Water in India

Small textile firms that dominate the industry in South India cannot afford traditional wastewater treatment, so they simply dump toxin-filled water into the local rivers. That's the problem that a team of University of Virginia business students has a plan to solve. And their plan has been getting some validation recently

6 Apr 2009

Study of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Shows Fragile State of Coral Around the World

A new study by researchers from UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) sheds light on how threats to the world's endangered coral reef ecosystems can be more effectively managed

6 Apr 2009

Research Team Looks For New Way to Make Hydrogen By Splitting Water With Sunlight

Weizmann Institute scientists have identified a new mode of bond generation between oxygen atoms. This work is a step toward development of an efficient artificial catalyst for solar-driven splitting of water into oxygen and hydrogen, which is a major goal of renewable, clean energy research

6 Apr 2009

Satellite Data Shows Arctic Ice Cover is Shrinking and Thinning

The latest Arctic sea ice data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice cover is continuing

6 Apr 2009

Scientist Calls For Public to Consider the Social Cost As Well As the Environmental Cost of Climate Change

This year, Earth Day falls on April 22, and for its 39th anniversary, the eco-minded among us will be taking stock of advancements made by the green movement, as well as the challenges that remain

6 Apr 2009

Fuel Cell Power Sources Offer Clean, Reliable, Energy for Leisure and Industrial Applications

This Earth Day, SFC Smart Fuel Cell, leading supplier of fuel cell products for mobile and off-grid power applications, points out that fuel cells, operating in a hybrid system with batteries and solar power systems, can power a range of leisure and industrial equipment in any weather conditions

6 Apr 2009