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California State Parks Adopt Electric Vehicles and Electric Motorbikes

Electric motorcycle manufacturer, Quantya and California State Park's Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division partner to promote electric off-highway vehicles

23 Dec 2008

Radical Plan to Reverse Global Warming Will Cover Deserts in Reflective Sheets

A radical plan to curb global warming and so reverse the climate change caused by our rampant burning of fossil fuels since the industrial revolution would involve covering parts of the world's deserts with reflective sheeting

23 Dec 2008

Massive Bleaching Threat to Coral in Australia's Great Barrier Reef

A widespread and severe coral bleaching episode is predicted to cause immense damage to some of the world’s most important marine environments over the next few months

22 Dec 2008

How Much of the World's Energy Could Come from Solar and Wind Power

Only 1 percent of the world's energy consumption comes from modern renewable energy technologies such as wind, solar and bioenergy. The upcoming energy workshop will contribute to raise that figure

22 Dec 2008

IBM Helps With Optimization of Highmark Green Data Center

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has partnered with Highmark Inc. to transform Highmark's energy-efficient data center in its Harrisburg, PA location

21 Dec 2008

Has a New Glacial Age Been Diverted by Climate Change

The common wisdom is that the invention of the steam engine and the advent of the coal-fueled industrial age marked the beginning of human influence on global climate

17 Dec 2008

Australian Emissions Reduction Plan Branded Low, Unacceptable, Pitiful, Short Sighted and Pandering to Polluters

In the space of a year Australia has gone from climate change hero to climate change under-achiever, announcing an emissions reduction target of just 5-15 per cent by 2020

15 Dec 2008

Barack Obama Picks Berkeley Lab Director Steve Chu for Energy Secretary

President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Steve Chu, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), to be Secretary of Energy

15 Dec 2008

Paper People UPM Supporting Tree Planting

UPM is sending season’s greetings with a donation to ENO Environment Online, to help them achieve their challenging target of planting 100 million trees by 2017

14 Dec 2008

Test Results Show Earth Has Definitely Warmed Over the Past 30 Years

Half of the globe has warmed at least one half of one degree Fahrenheit in the past 30 years, while half of that - a full quarter of the globe - warmed at least one full degree Fahrenheit

14 Dec 2008