At a meeting in Oslow, the top U.S. climate envoy said rich nations as a group are unlikely to reach the deep 2020 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions urged by developing nations as part of a new U.N. climate treaty.

Try as colleges and universities may to cut down on the amount of stuff that college students dump at the curb at the end of every semester, mountains of furniture, clothes and other items still end up piled high, destined for the landfill. This is especially true for students who live off campus.
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Three minutes was all it took for a 17,000 ton hunk of metal to sink 140 feet to the bottom of the sea seven miles off Florida’s Key West. The 523-foot-long Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, a rusting World War II-era relic that once tracked Soviet missile launches during the Cold War, will now act as […]

The St James’s Palace Memorandum calls for a global deal on climate change that matches the scale and urgency of the human, ecological and economic crises facing the world today. It urges governments at all levels, as well as the scientific community, to join with business and civil society to seize hold of this historic opportunity to transform our carbon-intensive economies into sustainable and equitable systems.

A new study is the first to show that there is a previously unrecognized role for environmental pollution in liver disease in the general U.S. adult population. This work builds upon the groups’ previous research demonstrating liver disease in highly-exposed chemical workers.

As it turned out, after years of resistance, all it took to get Chevron to track its carbon footprint was a threat from activist nuns. A group of faith-based investors, including the Sisters of St. Domenic, filed a resolution to force Chevron into being more environmentally responsible.
After the oil giant agreed to comply, the resolution […]

So, you’re a proud cyclist, cheerfully riding your bicycle just about anywhere it can go and boasting to friends, family and colleagues about how much money and carbon emissions you’re saving. Yet, you’ve begun to notice that their eyes glaze over the moment bicycles become the subject of conversation. It’s official: you’ve got insufferable cyclist […]

Solar 1’s annual Revelry By The River Benefit to build enthusiasm, awareness and help raise funds needed to break ground in 2009 for Solar 2, Green Energy, Arts and Education Center in New York City. This will be the first Platinum LEED certified public building in the city to leave a “zero carbon footprint”, generating more energy than it consumes becoming a prototype for many major cities in this country.

This fun event will be held Tuesday, June 2, 2009 6:00 – 9:00PM at Solar 1 in New York City.

A non-supercell tornado comes in many flavors: dust devils, dust tubes, and waterspouts, to name just a few. The basic difference is that these type of vortexes are not born of a larger storm system and appear only sporadically. Also, they do not seem …

Few doubt the brilliance of bird nest design, but it seems our feathered friends are just as ingenious when it comes to picking locations for their future homes. They need to be, when you consider the rate at which we’re gobbling up space on our planet…