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Choosing our Tomorrows, A Film Set in the Future Looks at What If Scenarios for Climate Change

Choosing our Tomorrows, is a film that explores what life could be like in 2050 through the video diaries of the same Scottish farming family as they experience three very different futures...

17 Jun 2008

Household Greenhouse Gas Emissions to be Reduced With Help of Guide to Environmental Retrofitting of Houses

UK Housing Minister Iain Wright launched a guide to tackling environmental emissions currently generated by households. He also announced that eight million Osram energy efficient light bulbs would be given out to housing association households over a 12-month period beginning in September 2008

17 Jun 2008

Magnesium Nanoparticles Shown to Have Promise as Hydrogen Storage Materials

An international research team led by Swedish Professor Rajeev Ahuja, Uppsala University, has demonstrated an atomistic mechanism of hydrogen release in magnesium nanoparticles – a potential hydrogen storage material

16 Jun 2008

Horizon Lines Announces Corporate Environmental Initiative Called Horizon Green

Environmental stewardship is a fundamental tenet at Horizon Lines, and the company has launched Horizon Green to better understand and measure freight transportation's impact on the environment, and to develop programs that incorporate increased environmental sensitivity and mitigation into Horizon's core operations.

14 Jun 2008

Scientists Support Plan but Urge Initiatives to Protect Biodiversity

Conserving biodiversity must be considered when developing plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, researchers warn in today's edition of Science.

13 Jun 2008

Improved Understanding of Forest Dynamics is Needed to Predict Environmental Change

Two papers published in the journal Science today* by Microsoft Research ecologist Drew Purves together with research colleagues at Princeton University and universities in Madrid, Spain, highlight how an improved understanding of forest dynamics is needed to better predict environmental change.

13 Jun 2008

Ozone Recovery Should be Integrated as Significant Factor in Climate Change Studies

A new study led by Columbia University researchers has found that the closing of the ozone hole, which is projected to occur sometime in the second half of the 21st century, may significantly affect climate change in the Southern Hemisphere, and therefore, the global climate. The study appears in the June 13th issue of Science.

13 Jun 2008

Industry Maintain Ethanol is Not Source of Food Inflation and World Hunger

More than 4,000 international ethanol industry professionals will gather at the 24th Annual International Fuel Ethanol Workshop + Expo (FEW), June 16 - 19, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville to improve and expand an industry on the defense, according to conference organizers BBI International, a service company providing worldwide renewable energy solutions and specializing in project development, media, and events.

12 Jun 2008

Working to Provide Customers with the Cleanest Energy in the Nation

Continuing its momentum of adding utility-scale solar power to its energy mix, Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced today that it has entered into two contracts with San Joaquin Solar LLC, a subsidiary of Martifer Renewables Electricity LLC, for a combined 106.8 megawatts (MW) of solar thermal-biofuel hybrid power.

12 Jun 2008

Scientists Studying Region of the Atmosphere that Influences Climate Change

Scientists are deploying an advanced research aircraft to study a region of the atmosphere that influences climate change by affecting the amount of solar heat that reaches Earth's surface.

12 Jun 2008