Amid the climate change discussion, power companies are increasingly promoting nuclear energy as a clean and secure energy source and several countries have stated their intentions to build new plants. Nuclear power produces large amounts of electricity with considerably less air pollutant emissions than other traditional forms of non-renewable energy ... keep reading
Written by Helen Roeth in September, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Emissions, Environmental Disasters, Health, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Nuclear, Politics & Government, Pollution
Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is managing the latest soothing exercise for the US in India, which like China has now been told America will not try to impose conditions on economic growth. Of course there’s lots of positive hype, but the bottom line is that developing ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset in July, about Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Computing, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Green energy, Industry & Business, Nuclear, Politics & Government, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Transport
The US cannot set higher early emissions reduction targets because it has wasted the last eight years (under Bush), President Obama’s chief scientific advisor Dr John Holdren says. But despite it cannot emulate the tough targets set in Europe, the US still wants to take the lead in fighting ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset in July, about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Emissions, Nuclear, Politics & Government
As the United States Congress battles over the costs, benefits, and especially, definitions of its own national renewable energy standard, coal-giant China announced a plan to get 15 percent of its energy capacity from wind, solar and other renewable energy sources by 2020, the state-run China Daily reports. Perhaps sent ... keep reading
Written by Timothy B. Hurst in July, about Green energy, Nuclear, Politics & Government, Solar (10 comments)
Pro and anti whaling nations at the International Whaling Commission’s annual get-together are no nearer a compromise solution to the issues of “scientific” and “customary” whaling, despite a year of talks in advance of this meet. A three-year investigation by Greenpeace has led to court action being taken against ... keep reading
Written by Bruce Bisset in June, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Deforestation, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Global Dimming, Nuclear, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
[Editor's Note: This is the second part in a series running Thursday through Saturday. You can read part 1 here.] The danger of continuing such a ‘growth at all costs’ approach is amplified when only financially profitable solutions to the climate crisis are pursued by governments. In most industrialised ... keep reading
Written by Rajesh Makwana in May, about Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Economics, Emissions, Energy Saving, Industry & Business, Nuclear, Politics & Government, Pollution, Poverty & Development, Transport (3 comments)
In the Atlantic Ocean, warm water from beyond Cape Agulhas joins the Gulf Stream. Heated by the tropical sun it is pushed towards Northern Europe and finds it's way into the Arctic where it is cooled and sinks to the ocean floor. Flowing down past the Americas and into ... keep reading
Written by John P. in May, about Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Energy Saving, Finance & Money, Green energy, Nuclear, Politics & Government, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans (3 comments)
Whilst the usual oodles and squillions change hands across the boardroom tables, the actual hardware upon which we are apparently doomed to depend turns out to be a bit shit. It seems we only stop shitting in the kitchen when we're constipated. The part of the brain that finds ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts in May, about Carbon Trading, Emissions, Industry & Business, Nuclear, Transport
Whilst the world's media squeal about Swine-flu and worry about the sex lives of the rich and famous, some other stuff has happenedAl Gore has been talking about Black Carbon particulates, whilst temperatures at the top of the world soar. The Himalayas enjoy L.A. like pollution levels ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts in May, about Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Nuclear, Pollution
Why one remote Taiwan village is giving nuclear waste red carpet treatment. By Jonathan Adams, GlobalPost They tried sending it to North Korea. They tried sending it to China. Now, they're trying to send it to this remote seaside village in southeast Taiwan. Like nuclear energy-using countries worldwide, Taiwan ... keep reading
Written by Jonathan Adams in April, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Emissions, Environment & Wildlife, Health, Nuclear, Politics & Government, Pollution
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