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Climate change: Environmentalists question whether Gov. Jerry Brown's actions match his rhetoric

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:00:51 PDT

The world is fast approaching a tipping point after which the damage caused by climate change can't be undone, Gov. [...][Published in GreenNews - Read the original[...]

Tesco pledges action on food waste

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 01:30:30 PDT

In its corporate responsibility report for 2013, supermarket chain says it will use its position to engineer social change [...][Published in GreenNews - Read

MIT Students Build Advanced Solar Car

GreenNews — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:50:58 PDT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students have built an advanced solar powdered car which they are calling “Eleanor". The students are entering the car in the World Solar Challenge in Australia later[...]

Cockroaches quickly lose sweet tooth — to survive

GreenNews — Thu, 23 May 2013 23:50:17 PDT

People have been getting rid of cockroaches for decades by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong. [...][Published in GreenNews - Read

Controversial palm oil project halted in Cameroon

GreenNews — Thu, 23 May 2013 23:11:11 PDT

An American company has halted work on a controversial palm oil project in Cameroon due to opposition from local communities and environmentalists, reports Reuters. [...][Published in GreenNews - Read the original article]

If the tide is high, our sewerage systems won't hold on

GreenNews — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:51:08 PDT

Sea levels are rising and the world's vast coastal settlements face many damaging changes. One of the most difficult and expensive challenges is the[...]

Biofuels: Game-changer in aviation fuel?

GreenNews — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:01:07 PDT

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in November 2009 operated its first ever passenger flight powered by sustainable biokerosene. [...][Published in GreenNews - Read the original article]

Racing the Clock and a Storm: A Way of Life in Tornado Alley

GreenNews — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:41:04 PDT

In the breeding ground of Oklahoma tornadoes, people prepare for the season with the care that the defensive coordinator for their Sooners prepares for the inevitable autumn. [...][Published in GreenNews - Read

Greenpeace: IoD's basis for a predicting a shale gas boom is "deeply flawed"

GreenNews — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:21:04 PDT

Doug Parr, chief scientist at Greenpeace, says the assumptions used to base projections of a £4bn UK shale gas industry ignore key data [...][Published in

Offshore Wind Needs Tripartite Solution to Energy 'Trilemma'

GreenNews — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:21:04 PDT

Government, developers, and suppliers must work together to bring down the cost of offshore wind energy, says Benj Sykes of DONG Energy [...][Published in GreenNews - Read the original[...]

Video: UK ports poised for offshore wind boom

GreenNews — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:21:04 PDT

BusinessGreen Plus visits Belfast Harbour to see construction of the West of Duddon Sands wind farm, as first turbine installed at Gywnt y Mor [...][Published in GreenNews - Read

#SciAmBlogs Thursday - science diagrams, mental illness art, beavers are fish, amphibian decline, cicadas, and more.

GreenNews — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:50:36 PDT

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World faces 'self-inflicted' water shortages within a generation