One of Nato's most senior commanders has warned that global warming and a race for resources could lead to conflict in the Arctic. The comments, by Admiral James G...
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Bingaman: Collapse of nuke plant deal shows need for ‘green bank’
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), head of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, says the collapse of Constellation Energy’s plan to build a nuclear power plant...
Japan warns on rapid pace of biodiversity loss
AFP - Japan warned Monday that the diversity of life on Earth was being lost at the fastest rate ever seen, at the opening of a UN conference on the safe use of modern...
In TV ad, Democratic WV Senate candidate Manchin literally shoots hole through cap-and-trade bill
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is looking to literally blow a hole through efforts to enact cap-and-trade legislation if he becomes the state’s next U.S. senator. In a new...
Proposed Portugese green city will have central computer 'brain' that manages resources
If today's cities were living things, they would be monsters, guilty of guzzling 75 per cent of the world's natural resources consumed each year. Now a more...
Global aviation industry aims to cap emissions in 2020, strengthens energy efficiency target
With the European Union's plan to include aviation in its emission trading scheme just two years away, there's some more movement on slowing the growing carbon...
UN climate change body discusses reform in Busan
AFP - Hundreds of researchers at a UN global climate change body met in South Korea on Monday to discuss reform after embarrassing errors in a landmark report dented the...
Scientists: Gulf turtle rescue plan succeeds
Scientists have revealed that a mammoth effort to move thousands of turtle eggs from beaches around the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill may have saved...
Coming soon to Best Buy: Electric car charging
Will big box retailers play a key role in ushering in the era of electric vehicles? Today charging infrastructure developer ECOtality announced an agreement with Best Buy...
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Report: Reid aide profited from clean energy stock bet
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) top energy aide made several thousand dollars in 2008 by investing in a solar energy company that stood to benefit from tax...
Researchers say growth of cellulosic biofuel industry hurt by GMO regulations
Faster development of cellulosic biofuels is being significantly hampered by a “deep and thorny regulatory thicket” that makes almost impossible the use of organisms...
Chinese buy third of Chesapeake South Texas field for up to $2.16 billion
China's state-owned offshore oil and gas company has bought a one-third interest in 600,000 acres that Chesapeake Energy leases in a South Texas oil and gas field....
Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo makes first glide flight
Seven months after making its first captive flight attached to its mother ship White Knight Two, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (aka VSS Enterprise) completed its...
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