Fuel s paradise
More trees will not compensate for growing carbon emissions
More trees will not compensate for growing carbon emissions
Gaumukh is the snout of the Gangotri glacier located at an altitude of 4000 m in the Himalayas from where the snow and glacier-fed Bhagirathi River emerges.
A Cuban biotechnology company, reacting angrily to a decision by Guatemala to ban the use of a controversial biological pesticide, has accused a US government public health institution and two
Melbourne scientists have invented an inexpensive device that they claim will reduce car exhaust fumes by up to 90 per cent.The device, which can be attached to the exhaust systems of normal petrol
Jupiter's moon Europa has a salt-water ocean beneath its icy surface which may harbour life, according to an analysis of the data sent back to earth by the Galileo spacecraft and reported in the
Japan's Environmental Agency said on Friday it plans to introduce by 2005 new rules aimed at sharply cutting pollutant emissions from diesel vehicles. "The issue of pollutants emitted from diesel
A new $150 million fund aimed at conserving the world's top biodiversity hotspots, containing 60% of terrestrial species, has been announced by the World Bank.The new Critical Ecosystem Partnership
It sounds like something out of an old sci-fi movie. But the plasmatron, a device under development for several years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, may one day help reduce
Embarrassed by failing to deliver the Euro-I micro buses, Nepal's Ministry of Population and Environment officials are mulling over the possibility of importing gas-operated micro buses into the
Canadian researchers said Friday they cloned a male calf from the cells of Canada's world-renowned Starbuck Holstein bull, which sired more than 200,000 cows, bulls and calves before dying in 1998.
The era of 60-mpg and better cars was ushered in as two-seater "hybrids" arrived at Honda dealers in California. The Insight is the first car sold in the United States that uses gasoline and electric
AMERICAN HEAT . By Donald A Brown . First edition . Published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc. . Maryland . USA . 2002 Two friends - for security reasons, we call them F1 and F2 - met
The planet Mars has claimed another victim. After days of trying to make contact with Mars Polar Lander, an unmanned probe that was supposed to have touched down near the planet's south pole on
The Bhutan government has banned the import of all second hand cars, regardless of origin, with immediate effect to control environmental pollution. A press release from the Cabinet Secretariat
US diplomacy carries home another offering to please their Senate an agreement on energy and climate change with China
Spain's newly-presented National Hydrological Plan, which aims to distribute water evenly throughout the country, has met with heavy criticism from water-rich regions and environmentalists. The most
The objective of this report is to explore the topic of carbon sinks in forest ecosystems, focusing on the issue of REDD.
This paper seeks to shed light on the costs of carbon capture by reviewing and comparing the available material on costs of capture for both mature technology and early plants, attempting to account for differences where possible. It mainly refers to US costs, for which the greatest amount of published analysis is available.
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