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Bacteria in Compost Could Provide 10 Percent of Transport Fuel for the UK

Bacteria found in compost heaps able to convert waste plant fibre into ethanol could eventually provide up 10percent of the UK's transport fuel needs

8 Sep 2008

Managing Forests as Carbon Storage Solutions to Offset Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Scientists who have determined how much carbon is stored annually in upper Midwest forests hope their findings will be used to accelerate global discussion about the strategy of managing forests to offset greenhouse gas emissions

8 Sep 2008

Pyrenees Glaciers To Disappear In Under 50 Years

Researchers from the University of Cantabria, the Autonomous University of Madrid and Valladolid have produced a summary on the current situation of the Pyrenees, Sierra Nevada and Picos de Europa. Scientists have based their work on how climate change has affected the glaciers since the so-called Little Ice Age (from 1300 to 1860) to conclude that only the Pyrenees has active glaciers left

8 Sep 2008

Does Air Pollution Increase Rainfall

An international team of scientists, headed by Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld of the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has come up with a surprising finding to the disputed issue of whether air pollution increases or decreases rainfall

8 Sep 2008

Experts Meet to Discuss Rules for Managing Fragile Polar Regions

Need for better international approach to control polar activities on agenda in Iceland

8 Sep 2008

WWF Fails Performance of Australian Carbon Emitters

Some major Australian power generators are doing next to nothing to prepare for a low-carbon future, according to a new report from WWF-Australia

8 Sep 2008

Understanding the Connection Between Climate Change and Aerosols

A group of scientists affiliated with the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) have proposed a new framework to account more accurately for the effects of aerosols on precipitation in climate models

8 Sep 2008

US EPA Moves to Clean Up Emissions From Nonroad Gas Engines

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today took action to cut pollution from a major source of summertime smog and to protect human health by finalizing clean air standards for nonroad gasoline engines

8 Sep 2008

Climate Modeling Petascale Supercomputer Fires Up at University of Miami

NSF funds 3-year study of weather, climate change computation in collaboration with NCAR, COLA and UC-Berkeley

5 Sep 2008

U.S. Wind Industry Passes 20 000 Megawatts of Installed Capacity

The U.S. wind industry has raced past the 20,000-megawatt (MW) installed capacity milestone, achieving in two years what had previously taken more than two decades

4 Sep 2008