Solar Power Brings Light and Water to Ugandan Hospital
Lack of electricity is a core cause of malnutrition, starvation, illiteracy and extreme poverty around the world. Moreover, lack of...
Saving forests five times better than carbon capture for climate action
WWF Sweden is urging its government – holding the current EU Presidency - to get behind an effective international agreement on halting forest loss as a key and highly cost effective measure on climate change. “Sweden should follow the examples set by its northern neighbors in developing systems to halt deforestation,” said WWF CEO General Lasse Gustavsson. “One Swedish krona to stem deforestation results in the same emissions reductions...
Green roofs offset global warming, study finds
Filling rooftops with plants and dirt can help pull a modest amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere,...
PlayPump has brought water and fun to more than 1200 communities
Access to clean drinking water is critical for human survival and is an essential ingredient for improving the lives of...
Outlook for US Offshore Wind Projects: Favorable with High Gusts
The United States is viewed as one of the next big markets for offshore wind generation. Now that the Cape Wind project is considered more likely than not to proceed and the favorable political climate towards renewables, it is not a question of whether U.S. offshore wind farms will get built but how many.
New EPA Rule Will Require Use of Best Technologies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
LOS ANGELES– U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced today in a keynote address at the California Governor’s Global Climate...
Let’s launch the ‘next revolution’
As global leaders convene in New York City for UN climate change talks and the Clinton Global Initiative, the world...
New Energy Frontiers Expand Global Connections
WASHINGTON: One cannot open a newspaper without reading the word globalization, yet vast areas of the world are left out...
Largest Solar Tower Plant Begins Operation
Seville, 23 September 2009 – Their Majesties, Don Juan Carlos and Doña Sofía, today presided over the inauguration of Abengoa’s...
Impacts of Climate Change Coming Faster and Sooner
The pace and scale of climate change may now be outstripping even the most sobering predictions of the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). An analysis of the very latest, peer-reviewed science indicates that many predictions at the upper end of the IPCC's forecasts are becoming ever more likely.