Hurricane Irene is a large and dangerous storm. In this image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on August 25, bands of thunderstorms spiral tightly around a dense center, forming the circular shape of a well-developed hurricane....
Scientists discover massive underground river 13,000 feet beneath the Amazon mongabay.com August 25, 2011 Researchers at Brazil's National Observatory have discovered evidence of a massive underground river flowing deep beneath the Amazon River, reports the AFP. Presenting this week a...
The wasp was discovered in the Mekongga Mountains in southeastern Sulawesi, a little-explored Indonesian island between Borneo and New Guinea that Kimsey has called "one of the world's top three islands for biodiversity — that along with Australia and Madagascar." Aside from wasps of ...
There is an entire subset of happy dog videos showing happy pups greeting their soldier-owners back from tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is one of my favorites in that genre. For what it lacks in length it more than makes up for in passion. Gracie the dog nearly wags herself out a...
will host a fundraising event on the Thames (river) in London on September 13th. Photo: Bill Rankin The crews of the Steve Irwin and the Brigitte Bardot are very happy with the results of this year’s campaign and are anxious to return and once again intercept the Japanese fleet to pre...
This has been the warmest decade since 1880. In 2010, global surface temperatures tied 2005 as the warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Scientists say that the earth could warm by an additional 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit during the 21st cent...
IBM is testing how the smart grid can change consumer behavior with a project letting 1,000 households see real-time, detailed energy data. IBM has been working with Dubuque, Iowa , as part of the company's Smarter Planet initiative , a project using grid technologies to improve water...
Unvented kerosene and gas space heaters; leaking chimneys and furnaces; back-drafting from furnaces, gas water heaters, wood stoves, and fireplaces; gas stoves; generators and other gasoline powered equipment; automobile exhaust from attached garages; and tobacco smoke. Incomplete oxi...
The new law is expected to bolster solar, wind and geothermal projects by mandating that utilities buy power from renewable sources at above-market rates. The law will go into effect next year, but details about the pricing structure have yet to be determined. The legislation also pro...
“Climate change is like the Internet – It arrives one year, it gets bigger every year, it never goes away and you have to learn to make money of it or you will be eaten for lunch.” - Paul Dickinson, co-founder and executive chairman, The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Although the bu...
The sprawling Amazon rainforest is easily one of the most fascinating and mysterious regions on the planet, what with its dark, dense vegetation that stretches across the horizon like an unimaginable vast sea of green, home to an untold number of undiscovered species -- but the depths...
Stephen Lehmann/Coast Guard, via European Pressphoto Agency A Basler BT-67 aircraft releasing dispersant off the shore of Louisiana in May 2010. In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill , BP sought and obtained permission to use dispersants, detergent-like compounds, to break up...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Sustainability professionals across the board will tell you that engaging employees or consumers is a fickle affair. What may work for one audience may fall flat with another, which is no fun for anyone. There is one approach, however, that seems to be rearing its ...
As I write this blog post, I’m writing it on a 2010 MacBook Pro. If you call me, I’ll answer my on an iPhone 4, and if I’m reading your PDF’d report or a new marketing book, it is on an iPad2 – and I’m one of millions who can say the same thing. What was Steve Jobs’ secret of success ...
The atmospheric pressure is dropping in D.C. as the hurricane prepares to move through. But in front of the White House, where protestors are pushing Obama to nix the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline , the pressure has probably just ratcheted up. The State Department just released a rep...
Before the 1940s, only the worst storms were given names, usually based on the place or time of year they made landfall: There was the Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893, the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the Miami Hurricane of 1926 and the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, to name a few. ...
Moscow, ID- Early Friday morning, a group of Moscow residents were arrested for sitting in the road and blocking US 95 to protest an Exxon/Imperial Oil “megaload” shipment destined for the Alberta Tar Sands. In an act of non-violent, civil-disobedience, men and women sat down in the c...
“Wind’s costs have dropped over the past two years, with power purchase agreements being signed in the range of 5 to 6 cents per kilowatt-hour recently.” said Elizabeth Salerno, AWEA Director of Industry Data & Analysis. “With uncertainty around natural gas and power prices as the eco...
But despite this impressive development, it is still too early to claim the end of fossil fuel-based power generation. Over the same timeframe more than 475,000 MW of new coal-fired power plants have been installed, with embedded cumulative emissions of over 55 billion tonnes CO2 over...
STORM SURGE...AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STORM SURGE WILL RAISE WATER LEVELS BY AS MUCH AS 6 TO 11 FEET ABOVE GROUND LEVEL IN THE HURRICANE WARNING AREA IN NORTH CAROLINA...INCLUDING THE ALBEMARLE AND PAMLICO SOUNDS. STORM SURGE WILL RAISE WATER LEVELS BY AS MUCH AS 4 TO 8 FEET ABOVE GROU...
• Raking in Rebates: In just nine months, California grocers and other retailers -- most of them small businesses -- have reaped $2.8 million in utility rebates thanks to energy audits done by surveyors from Energy Smart Jobs . The green jobs program run by nonprofit PECI is working w...
Two factors that contribute to more intense tropical cyclones-ocean heat content and water vapor-have both increased over the past several decades--ocean heat content and water vapor--have both increased over the past several decades. This is primarily due to human activities such as ...
Although the planet is too far away to see through a conventional telescope, astronomers were able to infer its existence by observing periodic flickers in the pulsar it is orbiting. Those minor flickers represented the gravitational tug and pull of an orbiting body; a startling find ...
Tulane has applied for a patent for a method to produce the biofuel butanol from organic material, a process developed by associate professor David Mullin, right, postdoctoral fellow Harshad Velankar, center, and undergraduate student Hailee Rask. Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano Those ...
Competition is heating up among the world’s leading sportswear manufacturers, but not to see who can introduce the hottest new running shoe. Since the advocacy group Greenpeace released its “Dirty Laundry” report in July, Nike, Puma and Adidas have been racing to respond to charges th...
Other solar proponents find the decrease in price painful but a sign of a healthy market. Recently, Scott Edward Anderson , a contributing writer to The Energy Collective interviewed Peyton Boswell, managing director of EnterSolar (a New Jersey solar installer, who stated “The New Jer...
In these days of economic collapse, everything's under scrutiny: purchases, values, government, business institutions. When it comes to sustainability, consumers feel they're doing their part, and many are now demanding the same of the business community. Companies are now expected to...
Poaching of rhinos and elephants has reached a crisis point. The 61st meeting of the CITES Standing Committee took place in Geneva, Switzerland from August 15-19, 2011 and WWF and TRAFFIC urged international governments to work to halt the growing global trade in illegal elephant ivor...
Investor relations: Shareholders are speaking much louder and much more stridently than they did just a few years ago. During the 2011 proxy season, 40 percent of shareholder resolutions were related to ESG issues. And over a quarter of ESG-related resolutions gained a 30 percent “Yes...
