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• Lemurs doomed by Climate Change
  A study carried out by Dr. Patricia Wright, of Stony Brook University in New York, has shown that the climate change is driving the endangered lemurs in Madagascar to extinction. 30/Sep/2006

• Curbing global warming could cost $1 trillion
  ccording to a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), we may have to spend $1 trillion to reduce the increasing emissions of greenhouse gases in future. 30/Sep/2006

• Greenpeace could be sued for mud protest
  Aburizal Bakeri, cabinet minister for people’s welfare, in Indonesia, has threatened to sue Greenpeace, for dumping mud outside his office to protest a mudflow disaster in East Java. 29/Sep/2006

• Adapt to Global Warming!
  With climate change induced by global warming wrecking havoc all over the world, researchers are calling for ‘adaptation’ to global warming to minimize the damage it could cause in future. 28/Sep/2006

• Endangered Caribou saved by a court ruling
  In an effort to protect the endangered American reindeer (Rangier tarandus), know as Caribou in North America, a U.S district court judge, banned snowmobiles (also known as snow scooters or snow machines) in 470 square miles of national forest in northern Idaho. 28/Sep/2006

• Siberian Tigers to return to wild
  620 critically endangered Siberian tigers (Panthera tigris altaica), the largest animals of the feline family, will be trained to survive in the wild in China, under a controversial effort to return these creatures to the dwindling forests in northeast China. 27/Sep/2006

• Greenpeace blocks toxic ship used by Trafigura
  Greenpeace activists have blocked the toxic ship used by the Netherlands based company ‘Trafigura’, for dumping toxic wastes in Abidjan, the commercial capital of Ivory Coast on August 19. 26/Sep/2006

• New rules to prevent soil contamination in EU member states
  With soil contamination threatening Europe, the European commission has called for new laws to prevent industries and agriculture from contaminating soil. 26/Sep/2006

• United States decides not to open wetlands for oil & gas drilling
  In a major victory to environmentalists, the United States Interior Department has decided not to open the wetlands in Alaska’s western Arctic region to oil and natural gas exploration, as planned earlier. 25/Sep/2006

• Global warming makes the future of Ski resorts uncertain
  Retreating glaciers and reduction in the volume of snow falling in mountains due to shortening periods of snow fall, as a result of global warming, will threaten the future of ski resorts below the altitude of 1,800 meters. 24/Sep/2006

• New Zealand’s Green Party calls for protecting the ozone layer
  With a 3000km ozone hole passing over New Zealand today, the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand has urged for reducing the usage of bromomethane, commonly known as methyl bromide. 24/Sep/2006

• Darwin’s finches are at the threshold of extinction
  Birds that played an important role in the inception of the Darwin’s theory of evolution through ‘Natural Selection’ are at the verge of extinction in the Galapagos Islands. 23/Sep/2006

• Global Warming Drop in ocean water temperatures indicate uneven warming trends
  A study carried out by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), found that the average ocean water temperatures around the world has dropped slightly in the period 2003 to 2005, when compared to previous years. 23/Sep/2006

• Al Gore will train volunteers to create awareness on global warming.
  Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., former vice president of the Unites States of America, will train 1,000 volunteers of ‘Climate Project’, to spread the message on the deadly effects of global warming around the world. 22/Sep/2006

• Wetlands benefit from hurricanes
  A new study carried out by a group of ecologists; claim that hurricanes Katrina and Rita helped in stabilizing coastal wetlands by depositing tons of silt and sediments, contradicting many long-held theories, which state that rivers are the primary source of sediments that forms the wetlands. 22/Sep/2006

• Recycling e-wastes protects California’s water sources
  Californian laws on disposal of hazardous wastes are the toughest in the nation and were enacted to regulate dumping of wastes containing mercury, lead and other toxic heavy metals, which could easily seep into the land contaminating the ground water table. 22/Sep/2006

• El Nino Surface temperature of Atlantic Oceans influence El Nino
  Till now El Nino is considered to be a natural phenomenon influenced by the ocean temperatures in the pacific, but scientists from the Texas A&M University, United States, have found that surface temperatures of Atlantic waters too play a role in the El Nino event. 21/Sep/2006

• Pollution Woes Air pollution increases risk of Stroke
  Scientists in Japan have found that high pollution levels in air can make people more susceptible to stroke and the risk doubles with every hour. 21/Sep/2006

• Greenpeace urges the Philippine government to pass a stronger ‘Renewable Energy’ bill
  A new industry report ‘Global Wind Energy Outlook 2006’ launched in Australia by the Global Wind Energy Council and Greenpeace, said that Philippines has the highest wind energy potential in South East Asia. 21/Sep/2006

• New fronts for wind energy production: China and India
  With China and India progressing fast in harnessing the wind power, companies that manufacture wind turbines are exploring the possibilities of marketing their products in these robust economies. 21/Sep/2006

• Geoengineering – In the fight against global warming
  A few innovative scientists around the world are working on controversial approaches to tackle global warming, giving rise to a new field of science called ‘Geoengineering’. 20/Sep/2006

• U.S officials probe farms for E.coli outbreak
  Officials from the Food and Drug Administration are searching nine farms in Monterey County's Salinas Valley in the state of California for the outbreak of E.coli. 20/Sep/2006

• Exposure to polluted air riskier for women
  In what could be termed as new evidence linking mortality rate to pollution levels, a new study brought out by German researchers points to increased deaths among women in cities to pollution. 20/Sep/2006

• United States fails to capitalize renewable energy opportunities
  With renewable energy technologies getting more competent everyday, the federal government’s energy policies in United States is hampering development of renewable energy sources in the country, according to a report released by U.S researchers. 19/Sep/2006

• Oil Spill threaten marine life at Port Manatee
  A 400 gallon oil spill is threatening the marine life at Port Manatee, Florida, with authorities speeding up to clean up the spill, as early as possible, using well-equipped pollution boats. 19/Sep/2006

• Antarctic could pay a price for over fishing ‘Krill’
  Declining numbers of a small, shrimp-like marine invertebrate (Krill or Euphausiids) that is an important source of food to the whales, penguins, seals, sea birds and fishes in the Antarctic, is threatening the delicate marine ecosystem of the Antarctic. 18/Sep/2006

• Toxic mud flow from a natural-gas site threaten East Java
  Toxic mud flowing from a 50-foot- wide crack in the earth at a natural-gas exploration site at Sidoarjo, a regency in East Java, Indonesia, has forced thousand of people to flee their homes and is causing massive environmental damage in this region. 18/Sep/2006

• Policies on bioenergy: UK lacks ‘objective’
  With many European nations forging ahead with their plans to replace conventional fuels like petrol and diesel with biofuels like ethanol, British MPs feel that their country lacks objective and clarity on its policies towards bioenergy, produced from plants and other natural materials. 18/Sep/2006

• Economical costs of deforestation: Illegal logging costs global economy a fortune
  According to a report presented at the World Bank’s annual meeting at Singapore, illegal logging of forests around the world is costing the global economy ten billion USD every year. 17/Sep/2006

• Wind turbines wheel trouble in Netherlands
  The growing demand for installation of wind turbines to harness wind power has turned out to be a major trouble in the Netherlands. People are up in arms against installation of wind turbines closer to their living places and are forcing the government to change policy. 17/Sep/2006

• Changing Environment: Disappearing frogs signal impending danger
  Frogs around the world are disappearing at an alarming rate and their disappearance could have a profound effect on our environment. Nine frog species have become extinct in the last 20 years and another 113 species have disappeared from the wild. 17/Sep/2006

• Altered ecosystem: Invasive fish destroyed at Diamond Lake, Oregon
  Invasive fish that altered the ecosystem of the Diamond Lake, in the state of Oregon, were poisoned to death by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife in a move to save the ecosystem of the lake. 17/Sep/2006

• Scotland suffering from air pollution 2000 people a year dying.
  Air pollution in Edinburgh (the capital of Scotland) and Glasgow (the largest city in Scotland), is getting worse ever since these cities were ordered to cut down the pollution levels under European Legislation. 17/Sep/2006

• Nearly extinct fish Mahseer returns to Kashmir
  A giant large-scaled carp (freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae) is set to return to the rivers in Indian Kashmir, decades after it nearly went extinct in this region. 16/Sep/2006

• Depletion of Ozone layer over the arctic, to worsen
  The depletion of the ozone layer over the Arctic and the Antarctic is poised to get worse, before it gets any better, according to a warning issued by the scientists at the World Meteorological Association (WMO), on Friday. 16/Sep/2006

• Indian government to set up more tiger reserves
  With the population of the Royal Bengal Tigers plummeting in India, the government has decided to setup new reserves to protect this wonderful creature in the wild. 16/Sep/2006

• Devastating effects of deforestation
  Last February, a remote farming village of Guinsagon in Central Philippines, met its apocalypse, when a portion of a mountain came down, burying this village in its foothills, in mud that was many meters deep. This landslide buried more that 1150 people alive and left the handful of survivors overwhelmed with fear. We have heard about mud slips or landslides but nowadays events of this proportion are becoming more common. 16/Sep/2006

• Willows to transform polluted lakeshores
  Willows, deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix, can transform a 662-acre industrial waste bed on the shores of Onondaga Lake, situated northwest of the city of Syracuse in the State of New York, according to study carried out by the scientists at the State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry, New York. 16/Sep/2006

• Tackle Global Warming, now!
  According to Dr. James Hansen, a climatologist at NASA, we still have time to tackle global warming and to prevent catastrophic climate changes in future. 16/Sep/2006

• Acid rain affects Prairie Provinces in Canada
  A new study carried out by the Trent University, for the Canadian Council of Ministers of Education, has found that two of the three prairie provinces in Canada, Manitoba & Saskatchewan, are affected by acid rains, which has been a major concern only in industrialized central Canada till now. 15/Sep/2006

• Climate change helps herbivorous insects to expand their territories
  Rising temperatures fuelled by global warming is helping small herbivorous insects to expand their territories, threatening many forests, according to the discovery made by a team of researchers at Northern Arizona University School of Forestry and Biological Sciences. 15/Sep/2006

• Tropical rain forests in trouble
  The tropical rain forests in Malaysia are in danger and falling prey to increased oil palm cultivation? These concerns expressed by environment groups from the U.S. and Europe are strongly refuted by the political leadership of Malaysia. 15/Sep/2006

• Spinach linked to E.coli outbreak
  Beware of E.coli, next time you try to eat fresh green spinach from the nearby convenience stores. The green leafy spinach, widely used in cooking in South Asia and in salads in the West, is linked to the outbreak of E.coli in the United States that has claimed one person so far. 15/Sep/2006

• Genetically engineered tree to serve as a ‘biofuel’ source
  A group of scientists representing many institutions around the world, has mapped the complete gene sequence of the Western Balsam Poplar or Black Cottonwood tree (Populus trichocarpa), as a first step in using this species as a renewable source of ‘Biofuel’, which will replace fossil fuels in future. 15/Sep/2006

• New drug-resistant strain of Tuberculosis spreading fast in South Africa
  A highly drug resistant strain of Tuberculosis (XDR – TB), has been recently discovered in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. 15/Sep/2006

• Can Sulphur dioxide stop global warming?
  Can sulphur dioxide, pumped in to the stratosphere, save this planet from global warming? Yes, says a scientist from the U.S National Center for Atmospheric Research. 15/Sep/2006

• Whooping cough threaten U.S and Europe
  A highly contagious respiratory disease, ‘Pertussis’ commonly known as the whooping cough has made a comeback in Europe and United States, with many new cases reported in recent years. 14/Sep/2006

• Fuel from Carbon dioxide
  Carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that is abundant in the atmosphere, is the main culprit in global warming, resulting in climate changes all around the world. 14/Sep/2006

• Global warming rattles Spain
  Forest fires burning out of control, prolonged droughts wrecking agriculture, rising seas inundating beaches, floods causing chaos inland, deadly tropical diseases crossing over from Africa 14/Sep/2006

• Corals struggle to adapt to changing environment
  Nearly 70% of coral reefs around the world will find it difficult to adapt to warming oceans, according to Tamar Goulet, Assistant Professor of Biology at University of Mississippi. 14/Sep/2006

• Woes of the polar bears
  Polar bears in the arctic region are suffering the most from the loss of sea ice, as they are forced to spend more time in the land, unable to hunt seals, which happens to be their favorite meal. 14/Sep/2006

• Sugar derived from crabs and shrimps can prevent infections in humans
  Chitosan, a linear polysaccharide, present in the exoskeleton of crustaceans like crabs and shrimps, can repel bacteria and yeast, preventing infections in humans. 14/Sep/2006

• U.S Court fines Cognis for chemical spills
  A district court in United States slapped a huge fine on Cognis, a German based specialty chemical company, for negligently discharging toxic pollutants from its plant in Winton Place last December, which contaminated Mill Creek, a 26 mile stream running in Southwest Ohio. 14/Sep/2006

• El Nino is back?
  Are we going to witness another storm over the sea temperatures – this time on El Nino factor? Though the debate on the warmer weather on ocean surfaces link to formation of strong hurricanes is not yet resolved, the observation of warmer climate in Pacific Ocean points to another El Nino factor. 14/Sep/2006

• Arctic ice melting
  The NASA scientists have come out with strong evidence that reveals the melting of Arctic sea ice in winter at a faster rate than witnessed earlier. The rapid melting of ice is a pointer towards global warming and threatens the delicate ecosystem on the seafloor, the two studies of NASA reveal. 14/Sep/2006

• China could become a leader in wastewater management
  With most of its rivers and lake polluted with sewage from urban areas, China is trying to tackle this problem by spending more on its wastewater treatment infrastructure. 13/Sep/2006

• Brown Seaweed can fight obesity
  With millions of people suffering from obesity worldwide, scientists in Japan have discovered a new compound that could breakdown fat in human body leading to weight loss. 13/Sep/2006

• Anaerobes to provide a solution to U.S energy demands
  An anaerobe, Thermatoga neapolitana, which do not require oxygen for its growth, may help in meeting the energy demand in U.S in an eco-friendly way. 13/Sep/2006

• China to reduce petroleum imports
  In a bid to reduce its reliance on petroleum imports, China has decided to base its energy supply on coal and renewable sources of energy. 13/Sep/2006

• Waterways in Ohio is polluted with Prozac
  Fluoxetine hydrochloride, popularly known by its brand name ‘Prozac’, the most widely prescribed antidepressant drug, is ending up in streams and rivers, polluting them and endangering aquatic life forms. 13/Sep/2006

• Phytoplankton thrive in San Francisco Bay
  Phytoplankton, tiny plants that form the base of food web in water bodies, is thriving in San Francisco Bay. Phytoplankton is food to many fish species and other aquatic life forms. 13/Sep/2006

• Climate change threatens thousands of plant species
  Thousands of plant species around the world are facing extinction as a result of climate change, according to Paul Smith, head of Britain’s Millennium Seed Bank. 13/Sep/2006

• Growing glaciers of Pakistan
  A new study in the Upper Indus River Basin in Pakistan seems to tell a completely different story about global warming. Climate change fuelled by global warming is recognized as a main reason for shrinking glaciers all over the world, but this new study suggests that climate change is actually making glaciers in Pakistan to grow. 12/Sep/2006

• Arsenide poisons Chinese river
  In this latest incident, a river is contaminated by arsenide posing a serious threat to health of residents. A routine check on the quality of river water by the officials revealed the high levels of arsenide. 12/Sep/2006

• Global warming may spread diseases!
  Well, the global warming is not only threatening the coastlines across continents, it is also set to cause spread of infectious diseases in several new areas. The warmer temperatures are likely to aid the growth of germs and viruses and spread diseases that are only limited to tropical areas to new cooler places. 12/Sep/2006

• Global warming to melt beaches
  The increasing level of global warming is causing serious concern among people living in prominent seaside places in Spain. The global warming is expected to push up the sea levels by as much as 15 meters, resulting in seashores disappearing into the rising tide waves. 12/Sep/2006

• Oil Spill in Philippines spare corals in the region
  The oil spill that polluted more than 300kms of coastline in the island province of Guimaras in Philippines has spared the hard corals spread over 47, 000 hectares of coastal area in southern Guimaras. 12/Sep/2006

• Hills in Borneo throws light on evolution
  Limestone hills in the Kinabatangan valley in Malaysian Borneo, home to lowland tropical rainforests and the indigenous Proboscis monkey of Borneo, serve as a natural laboratory of evolution, according to an international team of scientists, led by Dr. Menno Schilthuzien from the Malaysian university, Univeristi Malaysia Sabah (UMS), located in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. 12/Sep/2006

• A National Park turned in to a battlefield
  The Virunga National Park, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is facing an unusual threat from a rebel group hiding deep inside this Africa’s oldest National Park. 11/Sep/2006

• Forest fires devastate Borneo and Sumatra
  Illegal burning of forests to clear land for farming has resulted in huge forest fires across Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra, destroying millions of hectares of forests and farm lands. 11/Sep/2006

• Turning sheep droppings in to paper products
  Creative Paper Wales, a company based in Snowdonia, North Wales, has won a £20, 000 Millennium award for making greeting cards, gifts and other paper products from sheep droppings. 11/Sep/2006

• Why H5N1 is more deadly than human flu?
  A study carried out by Scientists from Oxford University Clinical Research unit explains why the H5N1 Avian Flu strain is deadly than the normal human flu. The study revealed vital information on how to treat people infected with H5N1 virus. 11/Sep/2006

• Dust from deserts trigger rainfall in Tibetan plateau
  Aerosols and particulate matter blowing in from desert regions trigger rainfall in the Tibetan plateau, according to a recent NASA study. Tiny dust particles from the desert region accumulate in the atmosphere over the northern and southern slopes of the Tibetan plateau triggering rainfall in the early monsoon period. 11/Sep/2006

• Climate change a boon to destructive beetles in Alaska
  The population of the Spruce Bark beetles in the forests of Alaska has been exploding with the climate change, as warmer climates provide a favorable environment for the beetles to reproduce at a much faster rate. 11/Sep/2006

• Environmental costs of the war on Lebanon
  The Lebanese government has said that more civilians would die of the pollution caused by the month long war in Lebanon, in the months to come. Highly poisonous clouds that arose from a 12-day fire in a bombed fuel tank has spread over a third of the country and the cloud contains high levels of lead, mercury and the most dangerous polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s). PCB’s are stable organic compounds that are known to cause cancer in humans. 11/Sep/2006

• Reducing heating fuel costs in U.K
  A joint project involving the ‘Home Grown Cereals Authority’ and the ‘Rural Energy Trust’ of U.K has concluded that burning grains and straw pellets from crops can reduce the heating fuel costs in U.K by 50%, provided more research is carried out to improve the burning process to make it an environment-friendly one. 10/Sep/2006

• Saving Sawfish!
  Researchers in Florida are hoping to save the endangered small tooth sawfish through habitat restoration and creating awareness among the residents of the Southwest Florida. It is estimated that only 2,200 small tooth sawfish are still left in the waters of Southwest Florida, the last stronghold of this unique fish species that branched off from the shark and rays during the course of its evolution. 10/Sep/2006

• Toxic Waste create havoc in Ivory Coast
  Toxic wastes dumped in open-air sites in the city of Abidjan, in the Republic of Ivory Coast, by a ship Panama-registered ship three weeks ago, is wrecking havoc in this small African country with more than 5,000 people poisoned by this highly toxic waste. 10/Sep/2006

• Cleaning up the Lebanese Oil Spill
  An oil spill near Beirut caused by an Israeli air strike on a Lebanese power plant has begun settling down in the sea floor of the Mediterranean, killing scores of fish and posing a great threat to marine life in this region. A video released by Greenpeace in late August, shows the oil slick in the sea bed moving slowly towards a sea urchin rooted in sand. 10/Sep/2006

• European otters save the European water voles
  European Otters that were driven to near extinction due to habitat loss and use of chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides in the second half of the 20th century have started to re-populate in the British waterways. 10/Sep/2006

• How to convert garbage waste into power?
  The development process, in the modern day world, is taking place at a frantic pace. Right from early morning wake up till going to bed in the night for rest, people tend to make use of several facilities for making their life simpler. The conveniences that come in handy for doing things conveniently leave behind a lot of garbage each day. 10/Sep/2006

• Move to cut down vehicular emission levels
  A number of initiatives to reduce vehicular emission levels introduced from time to time have failed to bring down the pollution levels in Indian city of Pune. 10/Sep/2006

• Clean air initiatives in Hong Kong
  The loss of visibility due to severe pollution is forcing initiatives to clean up air in Hong Kong. The problem is mainly arising out of the industries located in Pearl River delta region where frequent power outages are resulting in running of power generators. These are mainly run by diesel with high sulfur often comes at cheaper rates. 10/Sep/2006

• Refugees of Climate Change
  The first refugees of climate change are from the gulf coast of United States and not from the low-lying pacific islands as expected, according to the Earth Policy Institute. 10/Sep/2006

• Predicting Indian monsoons
  A team of researchers from the U.S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulders, Colorado, claim to have found how some El Nino events have more influence on the Indian monsoon, while the others do not. 10/Sep/2006

• Bio-Fuels: Penny Wise and Pound Fuelish
  Nations across the world are jumping on the bio-fuel bandwagon. Gasoline prices are rising and if ethanol or palm oil is added to gasoline, it brings down the gas prices while making no impact to your car driving and engine maintenance. 09/Sep/2006

• Destruction of farm lands
  Vast stretches of fertile land in Ga West District of Greater Accra region are fast disappearing in Ghana. Due to large scale demand for housing, influential farm owners are letting out their farm lands to sand wining. 09/Sep/2006

• Death of a river!
  The quality of potable water in Manila, the capital city of Philippines, is not suited for drinking and a swig of it sure makes the person suffer from serious gastrointestinal diseases for a long time. 09/Sep/2006

• Young Leatherback turtles visit U.K
  Many young leatherback turtles have been spotted in the British coast this summer, confirming that the seas are warming up in Europe. Adult leatherback turtles have been frequently spotted in British waters, but sightings of young turtles were rare. 09/Sep/2006

• Endangered Condors poisoned by bullets in their food
  A new study in California confirmed that Californian Condors are being poisoned by lead from shotgun pellets and other ammunition in the carcasses of animals killed by hunters. 09/Sep/2006

• Why are we so concerned about H5N1 avian flu virus?
  For almost four years now, this has been the hot topic around the world – H5N1 strain. What does this term signify – well it is a type of ‘Avian Flu Virus’ (commonly known as the bird flu virus) that has been spreading fast among the birds around the world. 08/Sep/2006

• Production of Ethanol from Cellulose to start within five years in U.S
  Distilleries producing ethanol from prairie grasses, trees and crop waste (sources of cellulose) should be operational in the next five years, according to the Mr. Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary of Energy, United States of America. 08/Sep/2006

• Killer called H5N1
  The H5N1 avian flu virus seems to be winning the race. It has started establishing itself in epidemic proportions around the world. Once concentrated in South East Asia, the virus has expanded its territory in to Europe, Africa and North & South America. 08/Sep/2006

• Bacteria to the rescue!
  Want a cost effective method to clean up toxic waste? Simple. Just employ your own team of bacteria. 08/Sep/2006

• Mother Earth travelling back to dino times!
  The more fossil fuels we burn, the more carbon dioxide gets pumped into our atmosphere. Scientists claim that the heat-trapping CO2 could result in temperatures rising by as much as 2-6 degrees by 2100. 08/Sep/2006

• Melting permafrost release methane deposits in Siberia
  Lakes formed by melting permafrost in Siberia, are releasing methane deposits within them in to the atmosphere, fuelling global warming, as methane is much more potent than carbon dioxide. This discovery by a team of Russian and U.S researchers has surprised many scientists who had believed till now that lake beds were only a minor source of methane emissions. 08/Sep/2006

• Profitable Non-Profit Environmental Organizations in India
  Make no mistake; I hate all colas and the guys who make them. But I have a question: Why are so many Indian non-profit environmental organizations going hammer and tongs after Coke and Pepsi? 08/Sep/2006

• Glass Recycling and You
  What can you do to help make Glass Recycling an efficient and effective process? 07/Sep/2006

• Banned Children's Products To Be Destroyed
  Illegally imported confetti string products are found to contain hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) which is a serious health hazard as it is said to increase the risk of skin cancer. 07/Sep/2006

• South Africa - Will History Repeat Itself?
  Another Fuel Supply Crisis may be around the corner. Last December's Fuel shortages have been analyzed by a team which believes that we may be headed down the same road this year as well. 07/Sep/2006

• Impact of RFID tags on Glass Recycling
  The RFID tags might consist of metal which might cause serious problems for glass manufacturers. Metals entering glass furnaces when melted can influence the color and chemistry. 07/Sep/2006

• Bermuda might be the target for Storm Florence
  Storm Florence is headed towards Bermuda and since Florence has sustained winds near 50 MPH which are expected to pass the 74 MPH threshold for a hurricane. This might attain hurricane proportions when it reaches Bermuda causing some concern. 07/Sep/2006

• Arizona may not meet it's goals of the Environmental Protection Agency
  Arizona might not be able to meet its goals of the Environmental Protection Agency since its recycling rates have leveled off. According to sources people have lost the drive to recycle waste. 07/Sep/2006

• Keep America Beautiful's Vision For America Award awarded to PepsiCo
  PepsiCo's vision is to make "Tomorrow better than Today". PepsiCo encourages conservation, recycling and programs that promote clean air and water. 07/Sep/2006

• Are Your Recycling Efforts Wasted?
  Residents of Ontario sort out their waste and place it in blue boxes as a part of the recycling effort. Little do they know that almost 80% of their effort is wasted. 07/Sep/2006

• Sumatra Quake changed Earth’s gravity
  The 9.1 magnitude earthquake that triggered the devastating Asian Tsunami in December 2004 is believed to have changed the Earth’s gravity, according to a group of scientists from the Ohio State University. 07/Sep/2006

• Pollution making male fishes produce eggs
  Scientists have discovered fishes exhibiting both male and female characteristics in Potomac River and its tributaries in Washington D.C region. 07/Sep/2006

• Environmental Pollution costs China a fortune
  A Chinese government’s research report on the impact of pollution on the country’s economy (GDP), says that China lost nearly 512 billion Yuan (64.5 billion USD) in economic losses in 2004, as a result of environmental pollution. 07/Sep/2006

• Synthetic Chlorophyll in solar cells to harness solar energy
  Green plants convert light energy in to chemical energy, through photosynthesis, with the help of the pigment ‘Porphyrin’ in chlorophyll that is attached to a central magnesium ion. 07/Sep/2006

• Microbial Fuel Cells – An alternative to fossil fuel
  Microbial fuel cells can be an alternative to fossil fuel in future, according to a team of researchers from University of Wisconsin – Madison. 07/Sep/2006

• More Dinosaur Fossils remain to be discovered
  Scientists belive that there are more dinosaur fossils remaining to be found. According to Peter Dodson of the University of Pennsylvania and Steve Wang of Swarthmore College at-least 71 percent of the dinosaur species remain to be discovered. 07/Sep/2006

• Brazil has come up with an innovative concept to curb deforestation
  Developing countries are unable to dive headlong into enforcing laws against deforestation or taking any action, the major factor being lack of funds. 07/Sep/2006

• Mediterranean cleanup proposed by European Commission
  2020 might be a landmark year going down into the annals of history as the year when the Mediterranean will be pollution free. 07/Sep/2006

• Andhra Pradesh India getting ready for Bio-Diesel Saplings
  Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh, India is getting ready to start a bio-diesel plantation. The target according to the district collector is to plant one lakh saplings during the current fiscal year. 07/Sep/2006

• Why do we badly need the ‘Amazon’?
  Amazon, one of the world’s exotic rainforests along the banks of the 3000-mile river Amazon, is indeed a heaven in earth. This rainforest is over 1.2 billion acres and it covers two–fifths of South America. It is spread over nine countries namely Brazil, Columbia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and the French Guiana. 07/Sep/2006

• Cash from Gas
  Emission trading is getting to be big business. What happens is this: Imagine you have a factory in Europe that is making “Targeted Laser Stink Bombs” because Mr. George Bush wants to stockpile them, just in case he feels the need to deter some would-be terrorists in the Savannah jungle. 07/Sep/2006

• Eliminate Pollution: reduce Asthma
  Approximately 14 million adults and 6 million children in the U.S. have asthma. Asthma is a chronic disease that affects your airways and lungs, causing symptoms like wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and trouble breathing. 07/Sep/2006

• Infectious Diseases thrive in warmer climate
  Warmer climate is fuelling the spread of infectious diseases across Europe, according to Professor Paul Hunter of the University of East Anglia in England. While addressing a British Science Conference he said that diseases that are not common to Europe are starting to appear because of the changing climate across the continent. 07/Sep/2006

• Deforestation slowing down in Amazon
  With more than 17% of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest lost to years of deforestation, the rate of deforestation of this world’s largest tropical rainforest has slowed down for second year in a row in 2006. 07/Sep/2006

• Impact of 9/11 on workers
  Workers, who labored for days together at Ground Zero, after the 9/11 destruction are suffering from lung diseases. 07/Sep/2006

• Students demand green power
  The US administration’s dilly-dallying tactics in making progress in containing green house gases is no secret. However, several of the university students are joining hands in demanding authorities make use of green power to meet their requirements. 07/Sep/2006

• Climate change and the carbon cycle
  The biggest contributor of climate change due to human activity is carbon dioxide (CO2) emission, much of it released by the burning of fossil fuel. 06/Sep/2006

• Balancing conservation and livelihood
  There is often a tricky tension between the enlightened global need for conserving biodiversity, and local communities who subsist on forests and the land. Finding a way to involve and empower the 'locals' to benefit from conservation is the challenge. Following are some practical examples from across the world : 06/Sep/2006

• ExxonMobil would have to pay more to clean up Exxon Valdez oil spill
  The oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit the Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24 1989, enroute from Valdez oil terminal in Valdez, Alaska, spilling an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil across 2000 km of coastline. 06/Sep/2006

• The Kyoto protocol and the mechanism of emission reduction
  The Kyoto Protocol, agreed on by 160 countries on December, 1997, places different targets on reduction of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emission, from different industrialized countries depending on prevailing conditions in those countries. 06/Sep/2006

• US court rejects claims on environmental contamination in the Bhopal gas disaster.
  The world's worst industrial disaster in the 20th century occurred in Bhopal, capital city of Madhya Pradesh state, in India in the early hours of December 4th, 1984, when between 20-30 tons of the toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leaked into the atmosphere from a Union Carbide pesticide plant. 06/Sep/2006

• Greenhouse emission continue rising despite Kyoto Protocol
  The Kyoto protocol mandates emission reduction from fossil fuels by 2008-12 of at least 5.2 % below 1992 levels. Almost all the industrialized countries have ratified the Protocol, except the United States -the biggest emitter of greenhouse gas, and Australia. 06/Sep/2006

• Rarest of rhinos add a few more members.
  Javan rhinos (Rhinoceros sondaicus) are placed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)'s critically endangered list. They are the most endangered of the five species of rhinos. 06/Sep/2006

• Water crisis touches both rich and poor
  World Wildlife Fund's recent report "Rich countries, poor water" looks at the implications of the increasing scarcity of water resource for the developed world - an issue usually associated with the poorer regions of the world. 06/Sep/2006

• Top brands flunk the green test
  Greenpeace put some of the global electronic brands - including Sony, Apple, Motorola, Lenovo - to the test on how they did in environmental responsibility. The results were a striking contrast between their 'cool' products and their environmental costs. 06/Sep/2006

• Climate change impact on Asia
  Climatologists are warning that Asia, with over half of the world's 6.3 Billion people, could be heading for major disruptions in the coming years due to climate change. The effects will be felt in increasing storms, floods, droughts, melting of glaciers and rising sea level. 06/Sep/2006

• Endangered birds killed for decorating drums
  Thousands of endangered birds are killed for decorating instruments of drummers, ahead of ‘Dussehra’ and ‘Durga Pooja’ festivals, in the Indian state of West Bengal. Conservationists fear that up to 25,000 birds could be killed before these two Hindu festivals. 06/Sep/2006

• Solve Global Warming – Al Gore
  Former Vice President Mr. Al Gore, speaking in a news conference in Finland’s capital, Helsinki, said that drastic reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is important for well-being of the planet. 06/Sep/2006

• Hawaiian monk seals facing extinction
  Hawaiian Monk Seals numbering around 1,200 are facing extinction as they have failed to re-populate in spite of the efforts to protect their main habitat in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, which was declared a national monument recently. 06/Sep/2006

• Smelter poisons villagers
  A smelter plant in the northwestern province of Gansu has caused serious health problems to people in three villages due to lead poisoning. 06/Sep/2006

• Madonna going Hunting
  Madonna is hosting a hunting party at her British estate, which she and her husband Guy Richie host every year. 05/Sep/2006

• Horse Meat may be scarce
  United states is said to process $40 billion dollars worth of horse meat, most of which is shipped overseas. 05/Sep/2006

• How green is your Roof?
  Cement buildings, paved sidewalks, dull drab buildings are a common sight in most cities. Every day new buildings and shopping complexes are added to the already crowded landscape. 05/Sep/2006

• Are You Wasting Energy Every Morning?
  Everyday in almost every house we boil water in a kettle, for tea or coffee. This gives the much needed boost for a new day fresh with new ideas. 05/Sep/2006

• Save the Sharks
  Four sharks namely The Dusky Shark, Spiny Dogfish, Basking shark, and the Great White are considered as endangered. 05/Sep/2006

• Super Powered Green Car-No more excuses!
  Most people have the excuse of not getting environment friendly cars by saying that they are not fast enough. Now Tesla motors have released a clutch-less roadster that can go from 0 to 60MPH in just four seconds. 05/Sep/2006

• Elephants losing their habitat in Bangladesh
  In Ukhia, a southeastern village in Bangladesh, the elephants are losing their habitats because of human encroaching. 05/Sep/2006

• Lenovo and Apple not green enough
  Greenpeace has ranked the top technology companies to allow the public to guage how 'green' they really are. 05/Sep/2006

• UK Computers Byte Into the Environment
  Workplaces in UK generate 66 million tones of carbon dioxide every year most of it being fasted out by the workplace computers. Not only that: UK businesses waste 30% of the electricity they pay for! 05/Sep/2006

• Strange-looking God Pollutes India’s Water Bodies
  Way back in 1892 a freedom fighter in India, Lokmanya Tilak, needed to bring Hindu communities together and united to fight against the British occupancy. So he initiated a festival called Ganesh Chaturthi in which an Indian God, Ganesha – the God with an elephant head – was worshipped by Hindu communities across India. 05/Sep/2006

• Global Warming: a threat to the Earth
  Global Warming is a serious matter of concern for everybody. The general rise in temperature has worsened the weather extremes as well as air quality. 05/Sep/2006

• Wildlife trade fuelled by holidaymakers
  A survey commissioned by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw) has concluded that more than half- a- million Britons have brought wildlife items as mementos from places where they holidayed, in the last five years. 05/Sep/2006

• Carbon dioxide level in atmosphere, highest in 800,000 years
  A study of ice drilled out of Antarctica has confirmed that the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere today, is the highest in 800,000 years. 05/Sep/2006

• Short on Water: Australia under liquidation?
  5 Australian cities (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth) are facing a massive water crunch. And more are about to follow suit. 04/Sep/2006

• Wildlife Corridors boost biodiversity
  Wildlife corridors used for connecting fragmented habitats to enhance gene flows between them, ensuring genetic variations among plant and animal species, is proving to be a boon to biodiversity, according to a study carried out by a team of scientists led by Ellen Damschen, an ecologist at the University of California. The findings of this study were published in the journal ‘Science’. 04/Sep/2006

• Disappearance of a village in China
  The rules governing safe handling of toxic pollutants are observed more in breach, than in letter and spirit. The sudden disappearance of a village in China is a pointer to this. 04/Sep/2006

• Accidental oil spill, huge disaster.
  The impact of oil spills on the coastal areas of the Philippines is proving to be disastrous to the people and marine life alike. 04/Sep/2006

• Adam and Eve were Japanese?
  In the beginning there was only water. Then came microorganisms, which developed into sea creatures. Next, the sea started receding and these sea creatures started to adapt to land surroundings. 360 million years ago, some of them crawled out of the sea onto the land, and these were called Micheal Jacksons. Err, sorry, Salamanders! 04/Sep/2006

• Carbon Dioxide Lake found
  Scientists are reported to have found a rare carbon dioxide lake under the ocean. 04/Sep/2006

• What mysteries does Antartica hold?
  Global warming is showing various side effects in different countires, but Antartica seems untouched. Or is it a volcano waiting to explode. 04/Sep/2006

• India taking Bio-Diesel seriously
  India is finally focusing on alternative fuels. The fluctuating prices of oil has forced the nation to look at alternative fuels. 04/Sep/2006

• Signs of a Lurking Hurricane
  On Sunday a tropical depression was said to have formed in the Atlantic Ocean. This depression is forecasted to take the form of a strong Tropical storm by Monday. 04/Sep/2006

• Wake up call for Australia
  Australia needs to cut down it's greenhouse emissions. Also, it is stated that Australia will be seeing a more warmer and drier climate in the near future, probably till the end of the century. 04/Sep/2006

• Steve Irwin Dead
  Steve Irwin the much famed "The Crocodile Hunter", died today when a stingray barb reportedly punctured his chect. 04/Sep/2006

• Diesel from dead cats?
  Shocking but true. Dr Christian Koch, 55, from Kleinhartmannsdorf, a German investor claims to have found a new diesel fuel substitute. 04/Sep/2006

• Arsenic rich water- a threat to life
  Arsenic is a semi-metal which is found in the earth crust. It gets dissolved in ground/surface water due to various reasons. To name a few are weathering of rocks, flushing it out into water bodies by various industries and excessive use of fertilizers. 03/Sep/2006

• Ocean plant mystery solved
  In an attempt to to determine the effect ecosystems have on climate change, researchers have made a major breakthrough. 03/Sep/2006

• The biosphere can self heal
  In 1883 when the Krakatau volcano erupted it wiped out every living thing on the island. All seeds, topsoil, wildlife was destroyed. 03/Sep/2006

• Is Sonar causing these whale strandings?
  In Sept 2002 near the Canary Islands while naval exercises were going on, 14 whales were stranded. Again in July 2004, 200 melon-headed whales crowd into the shallow waters of Hanalei Bay in Hawaii as a large Navy sonar exercise takes place nearby. 03/Sep/2006

• Eco-friendly Ice cream
  Ben and Jerry's ice cream company has show its commitment to preserving the environment by implementing environment initiatives and teaching others the same. 03/Sep/2006

• CSP can provide more energy
  Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) can produce a significant amount of energy from the sun more than technologies like (PV) photovoltaic cell. 03/Sep/2006

• New aging method can save whales
  Japanese believe that killing a whale is the only way to determine age. On this pretext of scientific whaling, thousands of humpbacks and minke whales are killed every year. 03/Sep/2006

• Innovative social learning culture of the bats
  Bats are smarter than you think. Researchers Rachel Page and Mike Ryan found out that bats can learn socially by just listening to their neighbor. 03/Sep/2006

• How genetically modified fish can be a threat
  Granted that genetically modified organisms are bigger and better and tastier. But what will happen when they are allowed to reproduce in a natural environment? 03/Sep/2006

• Sea snails responsible for disappearance of Southeastern salt
  Since the year 2000,thousands of acres of salt marshes have disappeared from South Carolina to Texas. 03/Sep/2006

• CO2 rise threatens the oceans
  Co2 is a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. While CO2 is harmful to the atmosphere, marine plants use CO2 and convert it to food during photosynthesis. 03/Sep/2006

• Niligiri Tahr :Under Threat
  The Niligiri Tahr is an endangered mountain goat found primarily in the western Ghats including the Niligiri hills of South India. 03/Sep/2006

• Rare species of rhino re-populating in Java
  Scientists from WWF have discovered four new rhino calves in the island of Java, raising hopes that one of the world’s rarest breed of mammals could begin to re-populate. 03/Sep/2006

• Ozone Recovering!
  At last, there is some good news for the environmentalists! According to an analysis published in the ‘Journal of Geophysical Research’, the thinning of the ozone layer has completely stopped and scientists are expecting the ozone hole over the Antarctic to recover by 2068. 03/Sep/2006

• Open tender for ethanol.
  In an effort to infuse new life into the programme to blend ethanol and petrol, Oil minister Murali Deora has scrapped the process of buying sugar cane extract at a negotiated price and instead has asked public sector oil marketing companies to call for open tenders. 03/Sep/2006

• From sublime to lime
  Heritage hills of the braj in Rajasthan,(India) are falling prey to mindless mining. 03/Sep/2006

• Buddhist monks protest chopping of Bodhi tree
  Hundreds of Buddist monks held a march last week to protest against the alleged chopping of branches from the holy Mahabodhi tree, grown from the original banyan tree under which Buddha attained enlightment 2500 years ago. 03/Sep/2006

• Water Pollution Cola and Pepsi banned in three states in India.
  In the docks over the pesticides in cola controversy, Coca-cola questioned the credibility of the testing carried out by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE),which claimed that the soft drink product in the country contained high levels of pesticides. 03/Sep/2006

• Sea water turns sweet:crowds throng Mumbai beaches
  Mumbai witnessed a strange phenomenon last week. The normally salty seawater on the beaches of Mumbai has turned sweet enough for consumption. 03/Sep/2006

• New Chinese wildlife law hailed.
  Conservationists from across the globe have hailed the implementation a new wildlife trade law in China that would enhance its ability to combat illegal trafficking of animal parts. 03/Sep/2006

• Benefits piling on for hybrid car users
  More and more people are now getting hybrid vehicles. If you are looking to buy one, here is good news for you. 02/Sep/2006

• Ethanol can help eliminate pollution and global warming
  Fuels like gasoline contribute heavily to the rising global pollution levels. 02/Sep/2006

• Sewage overflows an ever worsening threat
  As the US population grows the sewage systems needs even more attention than before. 02/Sep/2006

• Over-fishing on the rise in the Asia Pacific seas
  According the FAO the rapid growth in marine aquaculture and capture fisheries over the last 30 years has led to the decline in valuable fish species in the Asia Pacific seas. 02/Sep/2006

• Studies reveal that bottled water is not necessarily safer
  Are you sure that the water you buy is as pure as you are led to believe? 02/Sep/2006

• Can the Porpoises be saved?
  The small porpoises also known as the Vaquita Marina are an endangered species that are found only in the Upper gulf of California. 02/Sep/2006

• Drilling of tar sands contribute to global warming
  Canada is contributing to global warming by using tar sands to produce oil. 02/Sep/2006

• Solar powered Internet?
  A new device named 'Green' is to be unveiled in late September proposes to provide wireless connectivity to villages and remote areas where there is no electricity. 02/Sep/2006

• Teaching South China's tigers to hunt in Africa
  A new project by Save China's Tigers is an effort to teach zoo bred tigers to hunt in South Africa. 02/Sep/2006

• Polar bears may not last long
  A growing body of evidence now suggests that the ice in the Artic is melting faster than the previously thought. 02/Sep/2006

• Ethanol derived from Cellulose
  Biofuel production is limited by the quantity of biomass on the planet, there isn’t enough arable farmland on the planet for biofuel to even begin to replace crude oil. But what if farmland was not the only source for biofuel feedstock? 02/Sep/2006

• World biggest solar electric plant opens in Germany
  The world's biggest solar electric power plant went into service in south Germany last Friday. 02/Sep/2006

• Sweden and its biogas train.
  Sweden has unveiled an environmentally friendly biogas-powered passenger train. It is said to be the world's first of it kind. 02/Sep/2006

• Oil spill caused by Israeli attack hits Syrian coastline.
  An oil spill caused by Israel’s bombardment of a power plant in Lebanon that has already polluted over 80 kilometres of the country’s coastline has reached the Syrian coastline and is spreading into the north of the country. 02/Sep/2006

• Evidence Suggests Potential for Rapid Sea-Level Rise due to global warming.
  Two new climate modeling studies reported in the journal Science (24 March 2006, pp. 1747-53) suggest that global sea level could rise faster than previously thought. 02/Sep/2006

• Use bicycles – improve air quality
  Now a days everybody seems to be worried about global warming and pollution. If you ask them, they will come up with endless list of suggestions which can help curtail environmental pollution. But when it comes to implementing those suggestions, the same people will produce a bigger list of excuses. 02/Sep/2006

• Global climate changing much faster than predicted
  Professor John Holdren, one of America’s top scientists, has said in an interview with the BBC that the climates around the world are changing much faster than predicted and human influence on the global climate will make the situation worse in the years to come. 01/Sep/2006

• Elephant herds slaughtered in Chad
  Hundreds of African Elephants were found slaughtered just outside Chad’s Zakouma National Park, with their faces hacked off to remove their valuable tusks. 01/Sep/2006

• EU policies depleting shark numbers around the world.
  The Shark Alliance, a coalition of non-governmental organizations, dedicated to the conservation of shark, have blamed the European Union policies for having a dire effect on the shark numbers not just in European waters but all around the world. 01/Sep/2006

• Act today to save your tomorrow - Conserve Water
  We are moving ahead, no doubt! But where to? Are we moving ahead by improving our environment? Are we living as healthy life as our ancestors did? Will our children get the same clean air and water which God had originally given us? The answer is NO. 01/Sep/2006

• Global warming bill sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
  The much debated global warming bill to combat global warming has been sent by California lawmakers to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. 01/Sep/2006

• Tongaat-Hulett sugar refinery among the top five largest polluters in south Durban
  The Tongaat-Hulett sugar refinery is reported to have been asked to sort out air pollution problems. 01/Sep/2006

• Food Aid for Ecuador Volcano Victims
  The UN World Food Programme (WFP) announced that it will distribute rations among the 25,000 people that were affected by the Equador volcano. 01/Sep/2006

• 300 Tons of Pesticide cleaned up along Adriatic Coast
  Albania is one of Europe's poorest nations has been trying to deal with problems of pollution from closed industrial plants. 01/Sep/2006

• Why don't you create compost at home?
  A well maintained and beautiful healthy garden can be yours for free. More and more people concerned with recycling, and the environment are considering making compost at home. 01/Sep/2006

• Bio-Diesel Plantations is around the corner
  With ever increasing oil prices, and concerned environmentalists and dedicated researchers,it has finally happened. Bio-Diesel plantations are the way of the future. 01/Sep/2006

• Recycling and Kitchen waste
  When you think of recycling what comes to your mind? Well maybe paper, cans, plastic, the usual stuff. 01/Sep/2006

• Buying a nappy for your kid ? Don't till you have read this
  Did you know that the Bristol City Council have this month made a pledge to give each and every parent who switches to washable nappies a tidy sum of 30 pounds. 01/Sep/2006

• Waste and Animated Films
  TRC education team has produced a cool animated film, funded by South Gloucestershire Environmental Body using old Landfill Tax money. 01/Sep/2006

• Rap and Recycle
  Cycler is the name of the singing and dancing robot visiting schools all across Bristol. Cycler's aim is to teach children what recycling means and how to reuse and recycle rubbish. 01/Sep/2006

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