Science/Environment news

Marks outlines energy availability scenarios, encourages industry to make fundamental changes today.

Through a detailed analysis of the science, policy and design of land use, researchers at the University of Michigan are examining how "exurban" areas outside of American's urban and suburban areas can absorb more carbon from the atmosphere.

Greenpeace activists aboard the Beluga II sailed into the German North Sea today and began placing over 150 granite rocks, each weighing 2-3 tonnes, on the seabed.

Several Fortune 100 companies, including Hewlett Packard, Lockheed Martin, and Xerox, are among the 96 facilities that have renewed their membership in EPA's National Environmental Performance Track program.

Ten graduate students from MIT recently spent three weeks in Durban, South Africa, working on a project to develop an online tool that could help municipal governments around the world adapt to a changing climate.

Deforestation, a major contributor to climate change, is still rampant globally and European Union countries are guilty of compounding the problem according to a new WWF report.

WWF China will look to raise awareness of climate change and the negative impact it will have on ecosystems when it launches its World Estuary Alliance in two years at the World Expo being held in Shanghai.

RBC Capital Markets today announced its global capabilities for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission trading

A greener, less expensive method to produce hydrogen for fuel may eventually be possible with the help of water, solar energy and nanotube diodes that use the entire spectrum of the sun's energy, according to Penn State researchers.

The target of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 agreed by G8 leaders at their Toyako summit in Japan has been described as "pathetic" and "dangerously short of what is needed" by Kim Carstensen, Director of WWF Global Climate Initiative.

G8 leaders in Hokkaido, Japan (7-9 July) have the responsibility to fight climate change through committing to binding emission reduction targets and ending the global food crisis by addressing the causes behind it.

As part of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), MIT and Bosch, a leading global supplier of technology and services, have announced a new energy research collaboration aimed at exploring new materials and concepts for efficient energy-conversion and energy-storage systems.

Adds 60.1 million tons to original annual goal after reevaluation of lighting and power generation businesses

Greenpeace shows how Japan can generate 60% of energy from renewables by 2050.

As the international search for ways to remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the environment intensifies, a team of scientists has identified a process by which marine organisms influence the amount of atmospheric carbon the sea absorbs.

Turkey today dropped its strongest hint yet that it will sign up to the Kyoto Protocol on combating climate change, and will join in international efforts aimed at cutting greenhouse gasses.

A new NASA-led study shows human-caused climate change has made an impact on a wide range of Earth's natural systems, including permafrost thawing, plants blooming earlier across Europe, and lakes declining in productivity in Africa.

Research done by the U.S. Department of the Interior to determine if global warming threatens the polar bear population is so flawed that it cannot be used to justify listing the polar bear as an endangered species, according to a study being published later this year in Interfaces, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

On World Malaria Day, the American Red Cross is joining with its partners to raise awareness and encourage a robust global response to this deadly disease.

An international team of researchers led by MIT has explained how contaminated batches of the blood-thinner heparin were able to slip past traditional safety screens and kill dozens of patients recently in the United States and Germany.