Results from a recent survey conducted by a University of Missouri professor reveal that the U.S. public, while aware of the deteriorating global environment, is concerned predominantly with local and national environmental issues.
A six-year study of Amazonian small farmers and their responses to climate change shows the farmers are vulnerable to natural catastrophes and risky land use practices, say Indiana University Bloomington anthropologists Eduardo Brondizio and Emilio Moran.
Visionary entrepreneur and computer and video game pioneer Henk Rogers revolutionized the virtual realm when he introduced Tetris(R) to the west and other world markets two decades ago.
Global warming, greenhouse gases and carbon footprint have become household terms, and consumer groups, government agencies, and businesses are working on ways to preserve the land, air, water and other natural resources.
British Antarctic Survey has captured dramatic satellite and video images of an Antarctic ice shelf that looks set to be the latest to break out from the Antarctic Peninsula.
Satellite imagery from the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center shows a portion of Antarctica's massive Wilkins Ice Shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of the continent.
The Green Exchange(TM), which initiated trading last week in a range of environmental futures and options contracts, reports strong first-week trading in the initial slate of products, establishing it as a leading global marketplace for environmental trading.
New York State will be the site of a major conference to identify actionable solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
New UK legislation coming into effect on 15 April 2008 - the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation - will mean that biofuels must show significantly smaller carbon footprints than their petroleum-based cousins in order to keep their government subsidies.
Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates, according to scientists in an upcoming review article in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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