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Nanotechnology Developments to Replace Fossil Fuels and Solve Climate Change

A team of physicists, engineers, chemists and biologists at the University of Kansas and partner institutions is devising nanotechnology that could help supplant fossil fuels and curb climate change

8 Oct 2008

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions by Pfizer Honored by EPA

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored Pfizer Inc today in recognition of the company’s award-winning Energy and Climate Change Program, which reduced total greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent per million dollars of revenue from 2000 to 2007

8 Oct 2008

Electric Vehicle Podcast Celebrates Anniversary

On Tuesday, October 14 at 1:00pm Eastern, the hosts of the EVcast will broadcast their 100th episode at EVcast.com. Evcast is a show dedicated to educate and entertain audiences around the globe on the practicality and availability of electric vehicles

8 Oct 2008

Scientists Say Cities Need Major Scientific Breakthroughs to Cope With Climate Change

Meeting the world’s growing energy demands while minimizing global warming will be one on the biggest challenges humanity has every faced, said Dr. Raymond Orbach, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Under Secretary for Science, in the first of two special podcasts on “Confronting Climate Change” from the American Chemical Society’s podcast series

8 Oct 2008

Climate Change Report Identifies Deadly Dozen Diseases to Be Worsened by Climate Change

Health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society today released a report that lists 12 pathogens that could spread into new regions as a result of climate change

7 Oct 2008

Forest Conservation Project to Measure Carbon Savings

Up to 500,000 hectares of moist and spiny forests in Madagascar are to be protected or restored in a pioneering project which will include testing ways to measure climate impacts

7 Oct 2008

Esurance Uses Green Wind Power to Reduce Carbon Footprint

Esurance, the direct to consumer auto insurance company, announced its induction into the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Green Power Leadership Club

7 Oct 2008

Environmental Degredation Can Be a Pathway to Peace

From climate change to deforestation to water scarcity, environmental degradation can not only lead to conflict, but can also offer a pathway to peace

7 Oct 2008

Ocean Facing Largest Mass Extinction Seen in 65 Million Years

The survival of species critical to the livelihoods of millions - such as those in the "nusery grounds" of the Coral Triangle - is being called into question in the wake of the IUCN's warning this week of a mass global extinction unseen for 65 million years

7 Oct 2008

Solar Energy Continues to Gain Support in Australia

The Clean Energy Council, Australia’s peak body for the clean energy industry, sought
bipartisan support for a gross feed-in tariff (FIT), ahead of today’s Council of Australian Governments
meeting, and following the NSW Opposition’s announcement of a solar policy

7 Oct 2008