Spotted Seals near Alaska Denied NOAA Protection
| U.S., Britain say global climate deal possible. The world can still agree on a deal in December to curb greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for a warmer world, co-chairs of a meeting of major polluters in London — Britain and the United States — said on Sunday. |
2 New & Innovative Ocean Wave Energy Devices Ocean wave energy can be captured directly from surface waves. Blowing wind and pressure fluctuations below the surface are the main reasons for causing waves. But consistency of waves differs from one area of ocean to another. Some regions of oceans receive waves with enough uniformity and force. Ocean waves contain tremendous energy. Currently [.]Posted in: Future Energy, Inventions, Wave Power |
| Gordon Brown to warn of heatwaves and flooding if climate change deal fails. Britain faces a catastrophic future of deadly heatwaves, floods and droughts if efforts to secure a new global climate change deal fail, Gordon Brown will warn today. |
| U.S. Climate Plan will Boost Nuclear, Renewables A U.S. cap-and-trade market on greenhouse gases should be designed carefully to avoid unfair economic pain in fossil fuel industries and other parts of the economy, experts told lawmakers on Wednesday. The aim of a cap-and-trade market on greenhouse gases at the center of the climate bill introduced by Senate leaders this month would transform the economy from being based on fossil fuels to more nuclear and renewable power. |
| Public backing for deep China emission cuts. Public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic is firmly in favour of China taking on the lions share of cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and lukewarm on providing funds to the developing world to adapt to climate change. |
| Drinking From Plastic Bottles Raises BPA Levels by 70 Percent Drinking water from plastic bottles made with the toxic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) increases urinary levels of the chemical by nearly 70 percent, according to a study conducted by researchers from Harvard University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
| ‘We can’t compromise with Earth’: Gordon Brown. World leaders must break the impasse over faltering climate-change negotiations as preparations intensify for the UN meeting in Copenhagen this December, Gordon Brown will urge today. |
| U.S. Climate Plan will Boost Nuclear, Renewables A U.S. cap-and-trade market on greenhouse gases should be designed carefully to avoid unfair economic pain in fossil fuel industries and other parts of the economy, experts told lawmakers on Wednesday. The aim of a cap-and-trade market on greenhouse gases at the center of the climate bill introduced by Senate leaders this month would transform the economy from being based on fossil fuels to more nuclear and renewable power. |
More Efficient Solar Cells with Carbon Nanotubes Silicon is one of the basic but expensive materials used in designing solar panels. If we can use something else as effective as silicon but more economical, solar power will be within the reach of the common consumers. Cornell researchers are thinking on somewhat similar lines. They are using a carbon nanotube instead of [.]Posted in: Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power |
| World’s ‘last man’ calls for action on climate change. A Lebanese activist chose to live inside a transparent box for three days to highlight the dangerous effects of climate change. |
| Spotted Seals near Alaska Denied NOAA Protection NOAAs Fisheries Service announced yesterday that two of three populations totaling more than 200,000 spotted seals in and near Alaska are not currently in danger of extinction or likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future. The announcement follows an 18-month status review. However, NOAA is proposing to list a third smaller population of 3,300 seals off China and Russia as threatened. |