May

5

Is the Climate Warming or Cooling?

May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Climate Experts Warn that Short-Term Snapshots of Temperature Data Can Be Misleading: Focus Instead on the Bigger Picture. In the hotly debated arena of global climate change, using short-term trends that show little temperature change or even slight cooling to refute global warming is misleading, write two climate experts in a paper recently published by [...]

Apr

22

April 22: Earth Day

April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Earth Day 2009: The Green Generation. Earth Day 2009, April 22, will mark the beginning of The Green Generation CampaignTM which will also be the focus of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day in 2010. With negotiations for a new global climate agreement coming up in December, Earth Day 2009 must be a day of [...]

Apr

16

Sulfate Aerosols: Global Cooling

April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Aerosols May Drive a Significant Portion of Arctic Warming. ‘Though greenhouse gases are invariably at the center of discussions about global climate change, new NASA research suggests that much of the atmospheric warming observed in the Arctic since 1976 may be due to changes in tiny airborne particles called aerosols.
Emitted by natural and human sources, [...]

Feb

4

NIEHS: Environmental Health Science Education

February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The Environmental Health Science Education website provides educators, students and scientists with easy access to reliable tools, resources and classroom materials. It seeks to invest in the future of environmental health science by increasing awareness of the link between the environment and human health.
Resources for Teachers, Students and Scientists.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). [...]

Dec

5

United Nations University Our World 2.0 Beta

December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Our World 2.0 is brought to you by the United Nations University and asks the question: What can we do when faced with complex, inter-connected and pressing problems like climate change, oil depletion and food security?
In responding to these challenges, innovation will be the key. This webzine and series of video briefs will report on [...]

Jan

7

International Year of Planet Earth

January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

International Year of Planet Earth. ‘The International Year of Planet Earth aims to ensure greater and more effective use by society of the knowledge accumulated by the world’s 400,000 Earth scientists. The Year’s ultimate goal of helping to build safer, healthier and wealthier societies around the globe is expressed in the Year’s subtitle ‘Earth science [...]

Nov

16

Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA): A Global Carbon Emissions Database

November 16, 2007 | 1 Comment

Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA). ‘At its core, Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) is a massive database containing information on the carbon emissions of over 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies worldwide. Power generation accounts for 40% of all carbon emissions in the United States and about one-quarter of global emissions. CARMA is the [...]

Oct

29

Bad News for Biofuels: Five-Year Moratorium Proposed

October 29, 2007 | 2 Comments

BBC News: Biofuels ‘crime against humanity’. ‘A United Nations expert has condemned the growing use of crops to produce biofuels as a replacement for petrol as a crime against humanity. The UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, said he feared biofuels would bring more hunger. The growth in the production of [...]

Oct

1

Cellulosic Ethanol on Wired Magazine

October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Cellulosic Ethanol: One Molecule Could Cure Our Addiction to Oil. ‘On a blackboard, it looks so simple: Take a plant and extract the cellulose. Add some enzymes and convert the cellulose molecules into sugars. Ferment the sugar into alcohol. Then distill the alcohol into fuel. One, two, three, four — and we’re powering our cars [...]

Sep

28

Economist Article on Biofuels

September 28, 2007 | 1 Comment

Economist: Ethanol, schmethanol. ‘Everyone seems to think that ethanol is a good way to make cars greener. Everyone is wrong.
SOMETIMES you do things simply because you know how to. People have known how to make ethanol since the dawn of civilisation, if not before. Take some sugary liquid. Add yeast. Wait. They have also known [...]

Aug

19

Call for Public Comments: Prioritization of Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Needs for Engineered Nanoscale Materials

August 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Prioritization of Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Needs for Engineered Nanoscale Materials (PDF). The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO), on behalf of the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the Committee on Technology, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), is requesting public comments on the newly released document Prioritization of Environmental, Health, and [...]

Aug

14

Biofpr (Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining)

August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Biofpr (Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining). ‘Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining (Biofpr) is the definitive source of information on sustainable products, fuels and energy. There is an exciting blend of news, patent intelligence and feature articles on this web portal, as well as the publication of a peer-reviewed journal.
Both the web portal, biofpr.com, and the peer-reviewed scientific [...]