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1/3/2013
Nature underpins global wealth creation. The
renewable flow of goods and services provided by the earth's ecosystems buttress our economy and yield benefits for business. But this stock of ecosystems -- also known as "natural capital' -- is ...
11/2/2013
Wind power expanded by almost 20% in 2012 around the world to reach a new peak of 282 gigawatts (GW) of total installed capacity. Of the 45GW of new wind turbines that arrived in 2012, China and the US led the way with 13GW each, while Germany, ...
28/1/2013
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6/12/2012
Superstorm Sandy. Massive droughts. Devastating tornadoes. Horrific wildfires. The United States has certainly seen the dramatic weather-related effects of climate change in 2012, and every American has in some way been negatively impacted. ...
23/10/2012
This election season it's unusual for candidates in any race to talk about clean
energy as a solution to the jobs
crisis let alone the climate
crisis. The Washington state governor's race gets about as close as any to talking about the ...
16/10/2012
UK green and ethical funds are worth nearly £11bn and are on track to return to record
investment levels, according to new figures released to mark the start of National Ethical
Investment Week.
Not-for-profit sustainable
investment body ...
24/9/2012
President Obama told the Democratic Convention on September 6th 2012: '...climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something ...
31/8/2012
Bangladesh's prospect to turn its vast dark areas with sunlight has been bright by meeting its future power demand as solar panel installation is becoming gradually affordable with the development of business models, experts said.
Thanks ...
13/8/2012
The United States has won the lottery on natural gas. According to the most recent estimates by the
Energy Information Administration, the U.S. has some 2.2 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable natural gas -- enough to satisfy all of ...
17/5/2012
Over a beer or two, Danes like to tell a story that goes like this: One night the
energy ministers of the countries around the North Sea got together to divide up its oil and gas wealth. The Danish minister got very drunk, but the Norwegian ...
23/3/2012
IRA FLATOW, HOST:
This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. When you fill up, is it regular, premium or high-voltage? When you bought your electric car or hybrid, people laughed at you as a tree-hugger, didn't they? But with the price of ...
6/12/2011
Struggling solar manufacturers will likely be driven into mergers with rivals to survive a sector squeeze, a trend that could draw major Asian conglomerates deeper into the
renewable energy sector.
Solar makers have seen their profit ...
1/12/2011
Caribbean farmers are struggling to maintain production of key crops, including bananas and vegetables, in the face of more extreme weather, which could leave the region short of food and the foreign exchange earnings needed to pay for rising ...
15/11/2011
Wind-turbine makers have seen profit margins wiped out, and the potential end of tax
credits in the U.S. will see its “boom-and-bust” market persist, Suzlon
Energy Ltd. (SUEL) Chairman Tulsi Tanti said today.
“Today everyone is selling ...
28/9/2011
The prediction comes in a report which shows that the country's carbon footprint is expanding far faster than predicted.
A combination of an infrastructure building spree and the ramping up of carbon-intensive industries after the 2008 ...
26/9/2011
Uwe T. Schmidt, chief executive of Solar Trust, says he is a fan of the
Energy Department’s loan-guarantee program. He met with
Energy Secretary Steven Chu and the program’s director, Jonathan Silver, when his company was seeking support for a ...
19/9/2011
A major expansion of
renewable energy could create millions of jobs worldwide, stir economic growth in heavily indebted countries and help fight climate change at the same time, an American adviser to the German leader Angela Merkel said on ...
25/7/2011
More than 2 ½ years have passed since President Barack Obama took office -- a sufficient length of time to assess what he has accomplished, or at least started to accomplish. To gauge his record on the environment, Yale Environment 360 asked a ...
5/7/2011
Avoiding the coming catastrophic nexus of climate change, food, water and
energy shortages, along with worsening poverty, requires a global technological overhaul involving
investments of 1.9 trillion dollars each year for the next 40 years, said ...
17/4/2011
Climatologist Damon Matthews speaks softly of life in a “2 degree world.”
Not that he or anyone else wants to see the Earth’s average temperature climb by 2 degrees Celsius.
Wet places would get wetter. Extreme weather would be ...
16/3/2011
Anti-nuclear activists are opposing the prolonging of the lifetime of aging nuclear reactors in Ukraine (slogan reads: 'Source of Danger')
How secretive government agency funded BP pipeline blighted by human rights allegations The film ...
3/3/2011
The climate change policy debate was reignited last week with Prime Minister Julia Gillard committing to introduce a carbon price from July 1, 2012.
At the start of February, it seemed Prime Minister Gillard was gambling with her climate ...
28/2/2011
Europeans left stranded at airports last year as an Icelandic volcano spewed ash across the continent may soon benefit from the power that seethes beneath the remote north Atlantic island.
Iceland is doing a feasibility study into ...
18/2/2011
Geothermal is the
renewable energy sector that the United States dominates, but its industry leaders say they get little respect from financiers and policymakers.
The business of geothermal is growing strong, and experts who track its ...
2/2/2011
The growing presence of Chinese and Brazilian capital in Latin America's
energy sector is facilitating the construction of hydroelectric complexes, but is also the fuelling nationalist stances that are adding to the environmental criticisms of ...