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Clean, Sustainable Bridge to Global Energy Future May Come From "Ice That Burns"

Natural gas derived from chunks of ice that workers collect from beneath the ocean floor and beneath the arctic permafrost may fuel cars, heat homes, and power factories. Researchers are reporting these "gas hydrates" or frozen natural gas, show promise as an abundant, untapped source of clean, sustainable energy

23 Mar 2009

Alternate Thinking the Only Way For New Orleans to Make a Sustainable Recovery from Hurricane Katrina and Withstand Future Storms

Calling New Orleans "the canary in the global warming coal mine," two Tulane professors say the Crescent City must embrace unconventional thinking in order to recover in a sustainable way from Hurricane Katrina while withstanding a continual threat from rising sea levels, diminishing wetlands and future storms

22 Mar 2009

Loading the Seas With Carbon Dioxide Set to Create Ocean Based Ecological Disaster

The loading of carbon dioxide into oceans is a consequence of fossil fuel use that has only begun to be widely recognized as problematic in the past decade. Its subsequent effects on seawater chemistry have the potential to spread ecological disaster to a variety of industries dependent on the seas

22 Mar 2009

Neglected Water Treaty Revitalised

Delegates of 14 countries attending the World Water Forum tonight signed pledges of support to a growing call to bring into force a global water treaty that has languished in limbo for more than a decade as anxiety grows about the increased potential for conflict in a world increasingly short of water

22 Mar 2009

Acropolis Becomes World's Oldest Landmark to Join Earth Hour

The Acropolis, a symbol of western civilization, will be the world’s oldest landmark to turn off the lights for Earth Hour and join the global movement against climate change

22 Mar 2009

Styrofoam Insulation from Dow Is Going Environmentally Friendly

The Dow Chemical Company announced today that it has succeeded in converting its first facility that manufactures STYROFOAM Brand Insulation to its new zero ozone-depleting, no-VOC (volatile organic compound) foaming agent technology

22 Mar 2009

Climate Change Clues in Plants Being Monitored by Springtime Volunteers

Volunteers across the country are welcoming spring by taking part in a nationwide initiative to track climate change by recording the timing of flowers and foliage. Project BudBurst, has amassed thousands of observations from students, gardeners, and other citizen scientists

20 Mar 2009

Lessons Still Not Learned Twenty Years After Exxon Valdez Disaster

Two decades after the Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck an iceberg and spilt millions of litres of oil into the delicate Arctic environment, governments and industry in the region remain unprepared to deal with another such disaster

19 Mar 2009

Arctic Nations Move to Save Polar Bears From Global Warming

Five nations committed by treaty to conserve polar bears have come up with a resolution linking the future of the species to urgent global action on climate change

19 Mar 2009

Geoscientists Set to Gather and Discuss Water Resources, Climate Change and More

The Geological Society of America will host its NE regional meeting jointly with the Maine Water Conference in Portland, Maine, on March 22-24. More than 900 geoscientists will participate. An overarching theme for the meeting is climate change, and technical sessions will highlight cutting-edge scientific research on a wide variety of topics

18 Mar 2009