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Environmental Toxin Eating Technology Successfully Trialled by Microbial Solutions

Microbial Solutions has developed an innovative, ecologically friendly bacterial treatment, known as Microcycle Technology, which turns toxic exhausted metal working fluids into grey water that is safe to dispose of in the sewerage system

9 Feb 2009

Renewable Energy Tax Credits Named as the Best Way to Fight Sea Level Rises

Proposed Renewable Energy 401(k) Tax Credit will fight rising sea levels and growing unemployment by creating 500,000 green collar jobs. Tax credit will double annual increase of renewable energy production within three years, according to the Renewable Energy Task Force of the South Denver Chamber of Commerce

8 Feb 2009

Overwhelming Vote Sees Turkey Ratify Kyoto Protocol

Turkey has this week ratified the Kyoto Protocol, following an overwhelming vote in the national parliament

8 Feb 2009

Commercial Fisherman Banned From Chasing Fishing Ground Revealed by Retreating Arctic Ice

Commercial fishing in US Arctic waters is to be banned at least until its effects are understood, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council decided today

5 Feb 2009

Stratospheric Ozone Depletion Recovery May Be Delayed by Global Warming

Increasing greenhouse gases could delay, or even postpone indefinitely, the recovery of stratospheric ozone in some regions of the Earth

4 Feb 2009

Climate Change Records to be Set By Earth Hour 2009

With eight weeks still to go, citizens, businesses and public authorities in 375 cities across 74 countries have already committed to turning off their lights for one hour at 8.30pm on 28 March in a graphic show of support for decisive action on climate change

4 Feb 2009

Promising Future for Biofuels in Sub-Saharan Africa

There is huge potential for biofuel production in sub-Saharan African countries such as Nigeria, Uganda and Angola, provided there is a concerted effort from key stakeholders

3 Feb 2009

Economical Cooling Systems for Refrigeration Uses Magnets

An exotic metal alloy discovered by an international collaboration working at NIST's Center for Neutron Research may be the key to a new quieter, more economical class of home and commercial refrigeration systems based on magnetics rather than conventional gas compression and expansion

2 Feb 2009

Ocean islands fuel productivity and carbon sequestration through natural iron fertilization

An experiment to study the effects of naturally deposited iron in the Southern Ocean has filled in a key piece of the puzzle surrounding iron's role in locking atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ocean

1 Feb 2009

Alcoa Named as One of the Most Sustainable Corporations in the World

Alcoa announced today that it was named as one of the most sustainable corporations in the world in the fifth annual Global 100 ranking of the top role models in sustainable business practices, during the World Economic Forum

29 Jan 2009