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Air Pollution Causes Heart Disease

Patients prone to heart disease may one day be told by physicians to avoid not only fatty foods and smoking but air pollution too.

18 Jan 2008

Tough Stance on Sustainable Landscapes

Renowned landscaping company, Marshalls Plc, has launched its brand new Sustainability Report, demonstrating the benefits of its tough stance on sustainable landscapes during 2007.

18 Jan 2008

Sandtoft Roof Tiles become Part of a Unique Sustainability Showcase

Sandtoft Roof Tiles has a long track record of pushing the boundaries for its industry, pioneering new and more ecologically sensitive methods of working.

18 Jan 2008

Xethanol is Targeting the Fast-Moving Alternate Energy World

Xethanol Corporation, a renewable energy company, has announced an investment in Carbon Motors Corporation, a new American automaker developing a specially-built law enforcement vehicle featuring a clean diesel engine that can run on biodiesel fuel.

18 Jan 2008

For Community-Wind Projects, Size Does Matter

Dakota Wind Energy, LLC, announced its plans today to take advantage of South Dakota's tremendous wind potential with the formation of the state's first utility scale community-owned wind project. The project is located in Roberts, Marshall, and Day counties.

17 Jan 2008

Ecosystem-Based Management - Both Sides can Benefit

Mangroves in coastal Thailand are the main protection against deadly flooding from tsunamis, so it might seem wise to protect them at all costs.

17 Jan 2008

Researchers Learns More About Weather and Climate and Their Impacts on Society

As the city of New Orleans struggles to rebuild from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, researchers are learning more about weather and climate and their impacts on society.

17 Jan 2008

U.S. Wind Energy Industry Installed 5,244 MW in 2007

U.S. wind energy industry installed 5,244 megawatts (MW) in 2007, expanding the nation's total wind power generating capacity by 45% in a single calendar year and injecting an investment of over $9 billion into the economy, the American Wind Energy Association announced today.

17 Jan 2008

Ecosystems Response Could Lead Way Out of Environmental-vs-Economic Gridlock

The preservation of coastal ecosystem services such as clean water, storm buffers or fisheries protection does not have to be an all-or-nothing approach, a new study indicates, and a better understanding of how ecosystems actually respond to protection efforts in a “nonlinear” fashion could help lead the way out of environmental-versus-economic gridlock.

17 Jan 2008

Proposed Greenhouse Gas Legislation will have Little Impact on Economic Growth

Proposed legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have little impact on America's future economic growth, according to a new report conducted by researchers at RTI International and Harvard University for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

17 Jan 2008

Aging and Crumbling Infrastructure Still Valuable to the Environment

Thousands of obsolete dams and thousands of miles of abandoned roads in America’s aging and crumbling infrastructure could still be valuable – to the environment, according to a policy forum paper in this week’s Science by Martin Doyle of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and colleagues.

17 Jan 2008

Ecosystem-Based Management to Reconcile Decline of Worldwide Coastal Habitats

Worldwide coastal ecosystems and habitats will continue to decline unless economists and ecologists work together to improve current methods to assess coastal ecosystem benefits, according to an article today in the global scientific journal, Science.

17 Jan 2008

1100 Colleges and Universities Participate in Largest Teach-In on Solutions to Global Warming

On Jan. 31, more than 1100 colleges and universities from all 50 states will participate in Focus the Nation – an unprecedented teach-in on solutions to global warming that will simultaneously educate and energize close to 1 million young adults. A live web cast produced by the National Wildlife Federation from the University of Central Florida on Jan. 30 will launch Focus the Nation as the largest teach-in in U.S. history, galvanizing an inter-generational partnership for the first time since the civil rights movement of the 1960’s.

17 Jan 2008

Epwin Group Showcases New Generation of Sustainable PVC-U Products

The Epwin Group, the specialist low maintenance building materials group, will be showcasing its new generation of advanced sustainable and energy efficient PVC-U products at Eco-Build this coming February.

17 Jan 2008

Climate Change Studies Awarded More than 145 Million Hours on Supercomputers

Scientific studies on climate change, energy and alternative fuels are among the 30 projects awarded more than 145 million processing hours on supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through the Department of Energy's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.

17 Jan 2008