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Class Preaches Carbon Footprint Reduction While Reducing Emissions

Indiana University students and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service professionals are learning together this semester in an IU course on conservation and global climate change -- without contributing to further climate change

12 Nov 2008

Sustainable Palm Oil Shipment Marks the Possible End of Rainforest Destruction

The arrival of the first certified sustainable palm oil shipment in Europe opens up possibilities for palm oil users to move away from subsidising forest destruction and social disruption from expanding palm oil plantations

12 Nov 2008

Airport Malaria Causing Problems in the US

Airport malaria is transmitted when a mosquito infected with the disease bites a human in the vicinity of an international airport. Warmer climate changes in major U.S. cities with a large presence of international air traffic, seem to have created a more welcoming environment where these infected mosquitoes can survive

11 Nov 2008

Green Building Speaker Wated Globally to Talk About Green Building

Green building speaker and consultant Jerry Yudelson keynoted an awards ceremony at Europe's largest real estate conference and at four other conferences around the world

11 Nov 2008

Clean Coal Group Claims Using Renewable Energy For Electricity Will Harm Electricity Supply Grid

Drastically reducing carbon emissions through fuel switching could prove detrimental to the effectiveness of North America's transmission infrastructure, this according to a new report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation

11 Nov 2008

Carbon Trust Standard Achieved by Keele University

Keele University has been officially certified with the Carbon Trust Standard after taking action on climate change by reducing its carbon footprint by three per cent

11 Nov 2008

Climate Change Predictions Using Clouds

The properties of clouds can be a key to predicting coming climate changes. This is shown by research at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden - which has also studied urban pollution

10 Nov 2008

Ocean Energy Could Supply 10 Percent of the World's Electricity

Global warming, energy security and rising oil prices have resuscitated the marine energy sector. Ocean energy is a predictable and abundant source of energy with the ability to supply approximately 10 percent of the world's electricity needs

10 Nov 2008

NASA Seminar on Carbon Dioxide in Earth's Atmosphere

NASA will host a seminar at 11 a.m. EST, Friday, Nov. 14, to discuss the current state of knowledge about how the "breathing" Earth influences current and future levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

10 Nov 2008

NASA Develops New Technique for Measuring Glaciers

A NASA led research team has used satellite data to make the most precise measurements to date of changes in the mass of mountain glaciers in the Gulf of Alaska

9 Nov 2008