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Alternative Fuel and Transportation

50,000 Brits Killed by Air Pollution Each Year: Climate Change Targets to Blame

March 23rd, 2010 | by Jennifer Lance

We breathe it in; we breathe it out. We can’t survive without out, but often the air we breathe is [&hellip

USA Could Generate 37 Million Gigawatt-hours From Wind

February 22nd, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer

The newest and by far the most scientifically accurate and detailed estimate to date of the nation’s wind power potential [&hellip

Donors to Pay Ecuador to Keep Oil Underground

January 15th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer

Here's a novel and timely use of Trust Funds. Ecuador is pioneering the use of a fund to preserve Ecuador's rain forest above an approximately one billion barrel oil field in the Yasuni National Park, permanently foregoing extraction of fossil fuels from the park. In return, the Ecuadorian government has asked for compensation of $350 million a year for 10 years

News and Events

Last 3,200 Tigers Top Most Endangered Species List

January 6th, 2010 | by Jennifer Lance

I’ve always been mesmerized by the powerful caged tigers of my childhood zoo visits. Although I would not want to [&hellip

Climate Change

Chemically Enhancing Plants to Absorb More CO2

December 16th, 2009 | by Jennifer Lance

Ikuko Hara-Nishimura, chief researcher at Tokyo University, has discovered a means to increase plants’ ability to absorb carbon dioxide, which [&hellip