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Coca-Cola Sets Goal of Reducing Carbon Footprint by 15 Percent by 2020

Coca-Cola Enterprises announced today that it has set goals for its five strategic Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) focus areas and has committed to achieving these goals by the year 2020 - what the company is calling "Commitment 2020"

23 Jul 2009

Calcium Reveals Carbon Storage Potential of Soil

As carbon is released through fossil-fuel burning and changing land use, scientists are seeking a more accurate understanding of carbon storage and cycling. Calcium in rainfall may reveal soil's carbon storage potential

23 Jul 2009

Blue Light Nanocrystals Could Store Carbon and Stop Global Warming

Berkeley Lab researchers have produced non-toxic magnesium oxide nanocrystals that efficiently emit blue light and could also play a role in long-term storage of carbon dioxide, a potential means of tempering the effects of global warming

21 Jul 2009

Youth of the World to Demand Action on Climate Change

Emerging leaders representing three billion people – the children and youth of the planet – will converge on the Republic of Korea to voice their demands for action on climate change at the Copenhagen meeting

20 Jul 2009

Pollution and Soot in the Air Making Climate Change Worse

Particulate pollution thought to be holding climate change in check by reflecting sunlight instead enhances warming when combined with airborne soot, a new study by researchers at the UC San Diego has found

20 Jul 2009

Climate Change Linked to Solar Cycle Like El Nino and La Nina

New research shows that maximum solar activity and its aftermath have impacts on Earth that resemble La Niña and El Niño events in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The findings may pave the way toward better weather predictions

20 Jul 2009

Where Americans Live and Work Being Influenced by Climate Change

Climate change is visible and occurring throughout the U.S., but the choices we make now will determine the severity of its impacts in the future

20 Jul 2009

Greenpeace Pushes for Global Warming Causing Refrigeration Gases to be Phased Out

Greenpeace calls on Montreal Protocol signatories to follow the EU and Switzerland’s lead opening the discussion to search for alternatives to phase out highly global warming gases used as refrigerants and known as HFC a type of F-gas

19 Jul 2009

Accurate Models of the Last Global Warming Points to Answers About Future Climate Change

By accurately modeling Earth’s last major global warming — and answering pressing questions about its causes — scientists led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison climatologist are unraveling the intricacies of the kind of abrupt climate shifts that may occur in the future

17 Jul 2009

Capturing Carbon Dioxide in a Molecular Bowl

The accidental discovery of a bowl-shaped molecule that pulls carbon dioxide out of the air suggests exciting new possibilities for dealing with global warming, including genetically engineering microbes to manufacture those CO2 catchers

15 Jul 2009