An international team of physical oceanographers including a researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has discovered that oxygen-poor regions of tropical oceans are expanding as the oceans warm, limiting the areas in which predatory fishes and other marine organisms can live or enter in search of food.
Russian and American scientists have discovered that the rising temperature of the world's largest lake, located in frigid Siberia, shows that this region is responding strongly to global warming.
Conserving water has never been so easy - or delicious. Taco Bell is rolling out its new Grill-to-Order cooking method by installing water and energy saving electric grills that will conserve 300 million gallons of water per year, the equivalent of filling enough 8oz. cups to stretch across the United States 80 times.
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the world's largest investor collaboration on climate change, with 385 institutional investors holding assets under management of US $57 trillion, today announced the first ever findings of its Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration.
Social factors, including economic pressures caused by climate change, could lead to an increase in HIV infection rates world-wide, warns a leading researcher from the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Officials from Major League Baseball, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Green-e Energy and WindStreet Energy, as well as Governor Edward G. Rendell and Mayor Michael Nutter, joined the Phillies in announcing a major initiative at Citizens Bank Park to aid in the efforts for a cleaner environment.
Small to large scale farms across the U.S. may soon find it easier to finance new farm waste energy systems thanks to a partnership between NativeEnergy and Agrilab -- two companies focused on reducing our dependence on fossil fuels.
Georgia Power and two metro Atlanta Kroger food stores recently teamed up to provide shoppers with energy efficiency information and $1 off coupons on General Electric compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). Senior citizen patrons received an additional 5 percent discount.
Climate scientists using computer models to simulate the 1930s Dust Bowl on the U.S Great Plains have found that dust raised by farmers probably amplified and spread a natural drop in rainfall, turning an ordinary drying cycle into an agricultural collapse.
Too much of a good thing could be harmful to the environment. For years, scientists have known about silver's ability to kill harmful bacteria and, recently, have used this knowledge to create consumer products containing silver nanoparticles.
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