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Tomorrow will mark a historical moment as President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden have their inaugural ceremony. They have an overwhelming task at hand to get the U.S. back on track. With the credit and housing crisis as well as the environmental issues looming ahead, the people are waiting to experience the positive [...]
The Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize company announced in recent months a contest in which people or organizations will compete for a 10 million dollar prize. The catch? The contenders must prove a vehicle they have created is capable of achieving 100 mpg while maintaining low emissions. Entries that are electric are required to reach [...]
Rising temperatures brought about by climate change will lead to more droughts, heat waves, ocean storms and even earthquakes. It could even swamp coastal regions and cause cataclysmic ecosystem changes. Researchers across the world are battling it out to subdue the rising thermometer.
A group of British researchers have come out with another novel way [...]
In an area that no one seems to want to live in, where it is dark for half the year, and where the temperature can get to far below zero, there lies 90 billion barrels of oil, 44 billion barrels of natural gas liquids and 1,670 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Naturally, this once [...]
When you’re driving down the road during the winter, you come to appreciate the salt on the road. It gives the road some texture and prevents water from freezing and creating black ice, which can cause horrific car accidents. However, did you ever think about where that salt goes once it melts the ice and [...]
After the barracking of the aviation sector, it could be the turn of the computer industry to face the wrath of the environment and its keepers. As climate talkathons shift from macro to the micro, the information technology industry could soon face the heat over carbon consumptions and greenhouse emissions. The world may fly on [...]
Since 1977, the Seawater Foundation has been working to help solve the complex ecological problems that the world is suffering through by using the unique method of drawing seawater inland to irrigate barren coastal desert regions and turning them into green a green oasis. As anyone can tell you, when something becomes green, that is [...]
For awhile the concept of a “carbon credit” has baffled me. In the economic market can companies really sell off their waste to the highest bidder? Does this trade of waste and sustainability really benefit the earth, or is it an economic scapegoat for companies who don’t want to put forth the effort to make [...]
It looks like good news but it could be just a myopic view in the long term.
Scientists say that the tropical forests of the world are making a comeback but the bad part is that they may not be able to sustain the flora and fauna of the old.
Here’s what we know so [...]
During this economic crisis, depression, recession, or whatever you want to call it, we hear a lot of bad news. Homes being lost, jobs being cut and more. However, in with all that bad news there are bright spots. These bright spots include people cutting back on the needless spending, debt among families going down [...]