Rations? Lightbulbs? How to Fight Climate Change (Great News Network)
Friday August 18th 2006, 11:13 pm
International - Electronic cards tracking personal quotas for greenhouse gases are among the most radical ideas for getting citizens to cut use of fossil fuels, widely blamed by scientists for fuelling global warming.
Senator John McCain will next to observe the effects of global warming on Greenland. (Elite TV)
Friday August 18th 2006, 7:53 pm
US senators on Greenland tour U.S. Senator John McCain will next to observe the effects of global warming on Greenland. The Danish government has invited a number of influential American politicians to for them to witness with their own eyes the consequences of climate change on the arctic ice.
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Singapore encourages biofuels to fight rising prices.
Friday August 18th 2006, 4:00 pm
Singaporean Kom Mam Sun ran his Nissan truck on bio-diesel fuel for two years to test his business idea of turning used cooking oil from restaurants into fuel for vehicles.
Singapore turns to biodiesel to fight rising fuel costs.
Friday August 18th 2006, 4:00 pm
Singaporean Kom Mam Sun ran his Nissan truck on biodiesel fuel for two years to test his business idea of turning used cooking oil from restaurants into fuel for vehicles.
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Ethanol fuel plant planned.
Friday August 18th 2006, 12:00 pm
Clearfield County will be home to Pennsylvania’s first ethanol fuel plant, a $250 million project that should create 110 permanent jobs, state officials announced Thursday.
Cow gas study not just a lot of hot air.
Friday August 18th 2006, 12:00 pm
Scientists have launched a multi-million dollar project to reduce flatulence in cows, hoping that a drop in gas can help in the fight against global warming.
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Pollution, warming hurting Joshua trees.
Friday August 18th 2006, 12:00 pm
Global warming and air pollution are threatening to take Joshua trees right out of Joshua Tree National Park, according to a national conservation group.
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Chattanooga urged to limit greenhouse gases.
Friday August 18th 2006, 12:00 pm
Local Tennessee environmental and religious leaders today urged Chattanoogans to keep their cool by reducing emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global warming.
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EU lagging in climate goal, action needed: scientists.
Friday August 18th 2006, 12:00 pm
The European Union is doing too little to achieve its goal of limiting global warming although it portrays itself as a world leader, some academics say.
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Massive climate change eroded Alps six million years ago.
Friday August 18th 2006, 12:00 pm
Geologists have said that major climate changes in the Alps six million years ago rapidly led to its erosion.
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Scientists hail microbe clue to global warming gas production.
Friday August 18th 2006, 12:00 pm
A microscopic organism being studied by scientists in Scotland is threatening to turn current thinking about the production of greenhouse gases on its head.
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