Oxygen-starved oceans rapidly dying.
| Uganda faces prolonged droughts. Uganda is likely to face long periods of drought and a decrease in crop production, environment minister Maria Mutagamba has warned. |
| UK to give waterless washing machine a spin A washing machine using as little as a cup of water for each washing cycle could go on sale to environmentally conscious Britons next year.Xeros Ltd, which has been spun out of the University of Leeds to commercialize the technology, said on Monday the new machines would use less than 2 percent of the water and energy of a conventional washing machine. |
| Oxygen-starved oceans rapidly dying. The world’s coastal oceans are in crisis, with oxygen-starved ”dead zones” increasing by a third in just two years as global temperatures increase with climate change. |
| The Toyota Bus-Train A dual mode road/rail vehicle is being tested in Japan by Toyota and its truck-manufacturing division Hino Motors. The bus bridges the gap between road and rail with 4 rubber tires for road use and 4 steel wheels for riding on rails. It can hold 25 passengers and is based on the Toyota Microbus. [.] |
| Denvers Climate Plan In-Depth: Incentivize Energy Conservation On May 17, the Mayors Greenprint Advisory Council announced the release of Denver’s draft climate action plan. It offers a set of solutions to bring the city toward a 10 percent reduction in per capita greenhouse gas emissions from the 1990 rate by the year 2012, in conformity with the U.S. Mayors Climate Agreement.We [.] |
| International Carbon Initiative Failing: The Case of Papua New Guinea In the pacific region countries have joined forces to tackle land-clearing in an attempt to reduce regional emission levels. One of the latest carbon partnerships, agreed to in April this year, is between Papua New Guinea and Australia. The agreement has been criticised from its inception and with the release of a recent forest analysis report covering PNG, the potential usefulness of the program going forward is further questioned. |
| Mile High Million Surpasses 65,000 Trees Since last July, Denver’s tree canopy has increased by 65,356 trees. During his second Inaugural Address on June 16, Mayor John Hickenlooper called it “one of the largest, if not the largest, single-year expansions of an urban forest in the history of this country.EUR |