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Copenhagen climate deal gets low-key endorsement

OSLO (Reuters) – Nations accounting for most of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions have restated their promises to fight climate change, meeting a Sunday deadline in a low-key endorsement of December’s “Copenhagen Accord.”

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Environment |

The world through a lens: Azores, North Atlantic

A pod of sperm whales is captured on film near the sunlit surface of the Atlantic ocean, off the Azores. Each animal is in calm, vertical repose and is indulging in a communal sleep-in, or drift dive.Scientists believe that Physeter macrocephalus, which can measure up to 60ft in length and which has the biggest brain [...]

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Environment |
 

World may not do climate deal this year

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Global climate talks may have to continue into 2011 after failing last month to agree on a Kyoto successor, the U.N.’s climate chief and Denmark’s new climate minister told Reuters on Friday.

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Environment |

Advisory Board “2015: Women and Expo”: an Initiative to Promote Women’s Development in the World, Davos, 29 January 2010

MILAN and DAVOS, Switzerland, January 29 /PRNewswire/ — The Advisory
Board “2015: Women and Expo” met this morning in Davos to launch a five year
plan to promote women’s entrepreneurial creativity in the world, particularly
in relation to the them…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Environment |
 

Concentrix Solar Wins IEC Certification for New CPV Module ‘CX-75′

BERNIN, France, January 28 /PRNewswire/ — Concentrix Solar, a leading
supplier of Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) systems and a new division of the
Soitec Group (Euronext Paris), the world’s supplier of engineered substrates,
announced today that …

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Environment |

Keeping climate change alive | Suzanne Goldenberg

In his state of the union address, Obama seemed willing to trade nuclear power and offshore drilling for climate bill votesA guest blog by Suzanne Goldenberg, the Guardian’s US environment correspondentGreens probably didn’t reckon the “change you can believe in” would mean building more nuclear power plants when Barack Obama was first elected. But that [...]

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Environment |
 

The Annenberg Foundation Announces ‘WATER: OUR THIRSTY WORLD’ Exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Association With National Geographic Magazine

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ — The Annenberg Foundation is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography, tentatively entitled “WATER: OUR THIRSTY WORLD” in partnership with National Geographic Magazine. The exhi…

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Environment |

Green and Black’s to go 100% Fairtrade

Move will make Green & Black’s the world’s leading manufacturer of organic Fairtrade chocolateOrganic chocolate maker Green & Black’s today pledged to switch its entire worldwide food and beverage range to Fairtrade by the end of next year, in a groundbreaking move that will make it the world’s leading manufacturer of organic Fairtrade chocolate.The company’s [...]

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Environment |

China BAK Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Results

SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ — China BAK Battery,
Inc. (“China BAK”, the “Company”, or “we”) (Nasdaq: CBAK), one of the largest
lithium-ion battery cell manufacturers in the world, as measured by production
output, today an…

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Environment |

Video: The National Geographic archives – coral reefs

The coral reef off the coast of Belize is the second largest reef habitat in the world, but a combination of freak weather events have reduced the living ecosystem by 40%

[ More ] January 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Environment, Nature |