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Bloomberg BNA Unveils New EHS Resource Center

Bloomberg BNA recently declared the introduction of the Environment & Safety Resource Center.

22 May 2012

Study Discovers Hidden Source of Toxic Mercury in Arctic Ocean

Harvard environmental scientists have found that the accumulation of a toxic element, mercury in the Arctic has resulted due to circumpolar river flow as well as atmospheric forces carrying the element north into the Arctic Ocean. The atmospheric source was discovered previously, however it has been discovered only now that twice as much mercury comes from the rivers.

22 May 2012

How Are Birds In The Arctic Dealing With Global Warming?

With climate change affecting the entire globe, especially the polar regions, how are different species adapting to the change in temperature?

15 May 2012

Scientists Show Contaminated Inanimate Objects Cause Norovirus Infection

Scientists from Oregon Health and Sciences University and Oregon Public Health Division, Portland, have shown that even inanimate objects can transmit norovirus infection.

10 May 2012

NSW Government Should Aim for Climate Policy-Free Zone

Total Environment Centre, a campaign centre for environment protection, has stated that the NSW government must re-establish the greenhouse gas abatement scheme (GGAS), if the carbon rate is terminated through Tony Abbott government or through the legal action of the NSW government. Even other state governments that discard climate change policies for the same reason must come clean.

12 Apr 2012

Study Shows Bioenergy Cultivation Expansion will not Harm Wildlife

Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig have created a computational method to study the impact of high energy crop cultivation on birds living in the farmland.

5 Apr 2012

Research Indicates Temperate Freshwater Wetlands Counter GreenHouse Gas Emissions

A recent study published by researchers at Ohio State University’s School of Environment and Natural Resources has concluded that all the wetlands located in temperate regions hold value to the ecology as carbon sinks.

31 Jan 2012

Joliet Junior College Saves Energy Costs with LED Flat Panel Lighting Products

Joliet Junior College, a comprehensive public community college serving over 35,000 students, has installed energy efficient LED lighting products on its campus.

17 Jan 2012

Green Mountain Power Allocates Over 2,700 Acres in Northeast Kingdom

Green Mountain Power has declared its decision to conserve over 2,700 acres of land area located in the Northeast Kingdom, as part of its Kingdom Community Wind Project based in Lowell Mountain.

4 Jan 2012

Use of Green Facades for Buildings Can Help in Energy Savings

A research programme conducted by Gabriel Perez in partnership with Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech (UCP) and the University of Lleida (UdL) has established that using green facades in buildings could result in substantial energy savings.

29 Nov 2011