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Water Conservation and Management are Massive Global Concerns

On May 13, 2008, the 5th World Water Forum, the largest water-related event in the world, will be presented during the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16) in New York, with a special emphasis on its political dimension.

7 May 2008

Amazon Rainforest Coming Under Threat From Cleaner Air

The Amazon rainforest, so crucial to the Earth's climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air say prominent UK and Brazilian climate scientists in the leading scientific journal Nature.

7 May 2008

High Fuel Prices Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

HIGH gasoline prices could lead to a dramatic saving in US greenhouse-gas emissions. That's the conclusion of economists in the US, who suggest high fuel prices are turning consumers off SUVs and onto smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.

7 May 2008

Computer Analyses of global climate Consistently Overstated Warming in Antarctica

Computer analyses of global climate have consistently overstated warming in Antarctica, concludes new research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Ohio State University.

7 May 2008

Value of Trading in Carbon Market More Than Doubled in 2007

The value of trading in the carbon market more than doubled in 2007 to $64 billion (euro 47 billion), according to the World Bank's annual report, "State and Trends of the Carbon Market."

7 May 2008

Innovative Way to Improve Global Climate Change Predictions

Three researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power embedded microprocessors, an approach that would overcome limitations posed by today's conventional supercomputers.

7 May 2008

The Science Behind Climate Issues Assessed at Annual Critical Review

To avoid the most catastrophic consequences of global climate change, industrialized nations need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 80% by 2050, according to the author of the Air + Waste Management Association's (A+WMA) 38th Annual Critical Review, "Prospects for Future Climate and the Reasons for Early Action."

6 May 2008

Farmland Dust Cloud From the Ukraine Detected in Germany for the First Time

Fallow agricultural land and steppe-formation processes are evidently capable of having a much greater effect on global air quality than was previously assumed.

6 May 2008

Calvert Ranks Top Builders on Environmental and Sustainable Practices

Despite some encouraging environmental and energy-efficiency developments in recent years, none of America's 13 largest publicly traded homebuilders has "fully embraced the emerging market of sustainable building design and construction," according to a major new study by Calvert

6 May 2008

Ground-Breaking Program that will Further Advance Colorado to a New Energy Economy

The Colorado Governor's Energy Office (GEO) has selected The Climate Trust to implement the Colorado Carbon Fund, a ground-breaking program that will further advance Colorado to a New Energy Economy.

6 May 2008