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Study Looks at How Climate Change is Influencing Artic Trees and the Treeline

With climate change is a global concern, it’s timely to consider how trees are faring on the highest mountain slopes and at the northern treeline. In such extreme environments, oddly contorted forms of pine, spruce, birch and fir are created by blasting winds and inhospitable soils

26 Jan 2009

Recipients Announced of the Global Plastics Environmental Conference (GPEC) 2009 Environmental Stewardship Awards

The Plastics Environmental Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) is pleased to announce the recipients of the Global Plastics Environmental Conference (GPEC) 2009 Environmental Stewardship Awards

26 Jan 2009

New Species of Climbing Fish Found in Venezuela

A new species of fish from tropical South America is confirming suspected roots to the loricariid catfish family tree

21 Jan 2009

Second Generation Biofuels Critical to Ensure Compliance with Future Biofuel Mandates in Europe

First generation biofuels are outdated and second generation biofuels are not yet commercially feasible. Improvements in conversion processes of second generation biofuels will be an important factor in regions such as Europe complying with the 10 per cent biofuels mandate by 2020

21 Jan 2009

New UND National Center for Hydrogen Technology Already Needs Expansion

Now that it is complete, the University of North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center's (EERC) new National Center for Hydrogen Technology (NCHT) is already in need of expansion

21 Jan 2009

Waste to Energy System from IST Energy Genrates Clean Energy From Trash

IST Energy has announced the launch of its new GEM waste-to-energy conversion system, which affordably creates clean energy from post-consumer waste

20 Jan 2009

State of World's Oceans Shown in Movie, The End of the Line, at Sundance Film Festival

Audiences at the famous Sundance film festival are being treated to the world premiere of a new movie highlighting the parlous state of the world's oceans. The End of the Line, a feature length documentary made with the support of WWF, has its first showing in the World Cinema Documentary competition

19 Jan 2009