Climate change is the largest environmental change expected this century. It is likely to intensify droughts, storms and floods, which will undoubtedly lead to environmental migrations and potential conflicts in the areas migrated to.
How can we prepare for the natural hazards that will result from environmental change? How can we predict the effect of climate change on the Alps and other regions of Switzerland? How can we assess whether the use of natural resources is sustainable? By bringing the way we measure and model the environment firmly into the 21st century.
Storing carbon dioxide deep below the earth’s surface could be a safe, long-term solution to one of the planet’s major contributors to climate change.
Practicing what they preach has prompted specialty materials company Rohm and Haas to update the roof of their nine-story global headquarters with an advanced polymer elastomeric roof coating. The resulting energy savings and reported long life of the renovated 40,000 square foot roof are just part of the story.
This is the urgent question arising from the study "Quaternary climate changes explain diversity among reptiles and amphibians", published in the journal Ecography.
Wind power, long considered to be as fickle as wind itself, can be groomed to become a steady, dependable source of electricity and delivered at a lower cost than at present, according to scientists at Stanford University.
One of the world's leading authorities in debates on sustainable development, Professor Kenichi Miyamoto from the Ritsumeikan University in Japan will be giving the timely presentation "Towards a Sustainable Society in Asia - the Lesson of Japanese Environmental Problems" at the upcoming APNEC-8 conference held at The University of Sydney.
A better more sustainable and desirable future requires humans to learn from past interactions with the environment. Multidirectional connections have been created throughout time from human reactions to change.
Climate change may be one of the most significant threats facing humankind. A new study shows that long-term climate change may ultimately lead to wars and population decline.
U.S. Senators Max Baucus (D-MT) and Jon Tester (D-MT), Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, and representatives from state agriculture will join Targeted Growth, Inc. (TGI), a renewable energy bioscience company, and Green Earth Fuels, a vertically integrated renewable biodiesel energy company, as the two companies announce the formation of a joint venture called Sustainable Oils, Inc. at a press conference today.
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