Genesys, a global multi-media collaboration service leader, today announced the results of its annual Earth Day Green Survey of more than 18,000 customers to learn how behaviors are evolving in the workplace to address environmental issues and concerns. This year's findings show a significant increase in attention to Green behaviors and an escalating trend toward conducting work through virtual meetings whenever possible.
In honor of Earth Day, April 22, the Las Vegas Monorail Company is promoting the electric, zero-emissions transportation system to eco-minded Las Vegas visitors as an alternative to traditional automobile and mass transit. Savvy travelers can support an earth-friendly initiative to reduce traffic and pollution simply by riding the Monorail to reach their destinations along the world-famous Las Vegas Strip.
IndependentTraveler.com, a leader in online travel information, highlights five of the world's disappearing destinations and provides suggestions about how to visit them responsibly. Tourists should hurry to see the destinations most threatened by global warming -- but they must travel responsibly in order to keep from contributing to the problem.
A new study reports that inner-city children with asthma may be particularly vulnerable to air pollution at levels below current air quality standards. The study, available online today, analyzes the short-term effects of outdoor pollution levels on asthma symptoms and lung function in children. The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ThermoEnergy Corporation today announced the release of an engineering study by Parsons-Brinckerhoff, one of the world's leading planning, engineering, and construction management organizations, demonstrating that the use of the Company's Ammonia Recovery Process results in substantial reductions in carbon emissions for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants versus conventional biological methods for the treatment and removal of nitrogen/ammonia.
Face it: the classic suburban lawn is an ecological disaster. Grooming that expanse of velvety green grass typically involves pesticides, herbicides and plenty of water through summer’s hottest months, not to mention the oil and gasoline needed to fuel the lawn mower. Now, just in time for Earth Day, there’s help for eco-warrior wannabes who want some green space at home (and time to enjoy it).
The 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize recipients are a group of fearless grassroots leaders taking on government and corporate interests and working to improve the environment and living conditions for people in their communities.
Butte College in Oroville, California has been named the Grand Prize Winner in the National Wildlife Federation's Chill Out: Campus Solutions to Global Warming nationwide competition.
This research work is the first step to confirm the existence of a temperature change. Their main goal has been "to detect the signs of the Climatic Change through the temperatures in Spain", explained to SINC the researcher of the department of Applied Physics of the University of Granada and main author, Matthias Staudt.
In a world without human-produced pollution, biological productivity controls cloud formation and may be the lever that caused supergreenhouse episodes during the Cetaceous and Eocene, according to Penn State paleoclimatologists.
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