U.S. Supreme Court Ponders How to Save Mammals and Protect Americans
October 10, 2008
By Mary Montserrat-Howlett
WASHINGTON,DC(RUSHPRNEWS)10/10/2008-With noises as loud as rocket blasts, the use of US Navy high-intensity sonar is resulting in the increasing number of whale deaths and impairments around ocean spaces all over the world. The U.S. Supreme Court rendered an ambiguous verdict in a case brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council, (NRDC) against the Navy this past Wednesday, October 8th.
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Methane to Markets Soars: $4.5 Million Provides a Global Clean Energy Boost
October 9, 2008
Washington, D.C.(RUSHPRNEWS)10/09/2008-Capturing methane from landfills and other sources is paving the way to a clean, green energy source and reducing greenhouse gases in the fight against climate change. Through the Methane to Markets Partnership (M2M), EPA is funding 20 projects that will help 12 countries increase their capture and use of methane from the landfill, coal, agriculture, and oil and natural gas sectors. These projects will receive more than $4.5 million in M2M grants from EPA.
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IUCN Reveals That 1,141 of the 5,487 mammals on Earth Are Threatened with Extinction
October 8, 2008
The International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List reveals world’s mammals in crisis
Barcelona, Spain,10/08/2008– The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s mammals has confirmed an extinction crisis, with almost one in four at risk of disappearing forever, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM, revealed at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona.
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McCain Pushing For Nuclear Energy & Taiwan Going Solar
October 8, 2008
The U.S. Candidate Is Looking Back -Going Solar in Taiwan –Solar industry on island nation hopes to become Number One worldwide by 2015
by Dan Bloom
Taipei,Taiwan( RUSHPRNEWS)10/08/2008-- One bright spot among the many ideas for stopping climate change in its tracks over the next 50 years is the use of solar power to replace our reliance on CO2-emitting fossil fuels in cars, factories, homes and electricity grids.
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Forget “Star Wars” — Get Ready for “Climate Wars”
October 7, 2008
Future climate change may become impetus for future “world wars”
by Dan Bloom
BOSTON,MASS(RUSHPRNEWS)10/07/2008– Jurgen Scheffran, a research scientist in the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security and the Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research at the University of Ilinois, is among scientists and military analysts worldwide raising concerns about possible links between global warming and the frequency and severity of hurricanes, heat waves and other extreme weather events.
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EPA Creating a New Climate for Action
October 6, 2008
Creating a New Climate for Action - Campaign Provides Tools for Students to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Washington(RUSHPRNEWS)Oct. 6, 2008 To honor Child Health Day, EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection and Environmental Education is launching a campaign to educate middle and high school students about climate change, its effects on children’s health, and actions teens can take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and become Climate Ambassadors in their communities.
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Music to change the world: — Swedish green activist sings about “Changing the Climate”
October 6, 2008
Music to change the world: — Swedish green activist sings about “Changing the Climate”
by Dan Bloom
KALMAR,SWEDEN(RUSHPRNEWS)10/06/2008 – Climate change activists are active all over the world now, since this is a global issue. From Canada to Sweden, from India to Germany, green activists are using art, music and performance art to raise public awareness about what the Earth is facing in terms of global warming.
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Big City Mayors Leading The Environmental Way
October 1, 2008
Mayors `get it` on climate change
NEW YORK(RUSHPRNEWS)10/01/2008-Ironically, the most ambitious U.S. action in the fight against global warming is coming from big cities and their mayors. It seems preposterous on its face. Each city’s emissions are only a tiny fraction of the global pie. Cities can’t force utilities to shift to renewables, or make Detroit produce smarter cars.
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Scotland A World Leader In Renewable Energy Tidal Stream
September 29, 2008
ScottishPower Renewables announce world`s largest tidal stream projects
SCOTLAND(RUSHPRNEWS) 09/29/2008–ScottishPower Renewables can today confirmed they are evaluating three separate coastal sites for the development of the world’s largest tidal stream projects. This historic milestone has been made possible by the successful trial of the world’s most advanced tidal turbine - LĂ nstrøm. Two of the sites are being planned in Scotland, in the Pentland Firth and the Sound of Islay, with the third off the North Antrim coast in Northern Ireland.
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