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Evolution and Ecosystems May Protect Some Species Against Climate Change

Although ecologists expect many species will be harmed by climate change, some species could be buffered by their potential to evolve or by changes in their surrounding ecosystems

5 Mar 2009

Foxconn and IBM Team Up to Fight Carbon Emissions in Asia Pacific Region

IBM, EIM, C-Lock and Foxconn announced a global agreement to jointly deliver and deploy GreenCert, the world's first enterprise content management system that can accurately calculate and certify the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced by a facility

5 Mar 2009

Saint-Gobain Wins EPA's ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named Saint-Gobain as a 2009 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for outstanding energy management and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions

4 Mar 2009

Butte College Is Now The Largest Solar Campus in California

With national attention focused on renewable energy policies, Butte College cemented its leadership in use of solar power by unveiling three new solar projects which will help the college achieve its goal of becoming a carbon neutral campus by 2015

4 Mar 2009

NASA and Cisco Team Up To Monitor Climate Change With Planetary Skin Project

NASA and Cisco Inc. announced Tuesday a partnership to develop an online collaborative global monitoring platform called the "Planetary Skin" to capture, collect, analyze and report data on environmental conditions around the world

4 Mar 2009

Fish Show That Undesirable Evolution Can Be Reversed

In an intriguing 21st century example of Darwinism, researchers demonstrate that fish will again grow to larger sizes and produce more young when size-selective fishing is eased

4 Mar 2009

Climate Change Causing Peril for Tropical Lizards In the World's Jungles

Lizards living in tropical forests could be in serious peril from rising temperatures associated with climate change. In fact, those forest lizards appear to tolerate a much narrower range of survivable temperatures than do their relatives at higher latitudes and are actually less tolerant of high temperatures

3 Mar 2009

Europe Pushes Responsibility for Climate Change Action Towards Developing Nations

European environment ministers, who today discussed Europe's proposals for the Copenhagen climate summit in December, appear to be backtracking from a UN agreement by which developed countries take the lead on climate action

3 Mar 2009

Starch Based Plantic Biodegradable Plastic Saving Tonnes of Carbon Dioxide

A life cycle analysis shows that every tonne of Plantic sheet purchased in place of petrochemical polymers will save up to 2.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide (the average annual emissions of a compact car) and enough energy to power 2.5 average Australian homes

3 Mar 2009

WWF Develops Climate Change Action Plan

With a series of critical European Union meetings on a new global climate deal about to begin, WWF has set out what Europe needs to do to grow in a green way while contributing to helping the world avoid passing the 2 degree threshold of warming that presents unacceptable risks of catastrophic climate change

2 Mar 2009