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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), also said to the be the biggest and the foremost leader in space exploration has now brought the brilliant and stunning NASA imaging and research in the field of Earth Sciences to the Apple iPad. This incredible application for the iPad called, NASA Visualization Explorer or NASA Viz for short [...]

Climate change has become a crucial issue and the negative impact of the heavy industry on the climate and environment keeps getting highlighted. In this charged atmosphere all the big companies and brands like to propagate the fact that they are environmentally responsible and are doing their bit in reducing the negative impact of their business on [...]

The highlighting of climate change and its implications has made people more responsible towards the environment. Eco friendly products have become fashionable. The research and development work in this field has become more serious and there is a sense of urgency about creating products that have zero impact on the environment. The automobile industry [...]

The Brazilian government is willing to use a good relationship with the Chinese during the 16th Conference of Parties to the Convention United Nations Framework on Climate Change (COP-16), in Cancun, Mexico, in order to further discuss ways to measuring emissions of greenhouse gases in each country. China is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases [...]

Ever wonder how a person could save the planet from the effects of climate change? A British computer game to be released for testing on Monday creates different ways to accomplish this mission. Through various scenarios, players can explore options like geo-engineering and alternative energy sources to save the planet from high temperatures, depletion [...]

Hayes Valley Farm played host on October 10th to hundreds of people who had come for an environmental work party. This party was actually part of a worldwide day dedicated to prevent climate change. Almost 6,000 work parties were organised across 180 nations. They celebrated this event having activities at almost 350 gardens, learning about how to transform [...]

Steven Chu is a Nobel Laureate in Physics and even after becoming the Energy Secretary he has not stopped being a physicist. He has been urging all Americans to paint their roofs in a lighter color that reflects the sunlight better and help cool the planet a little. He says the cost of making your roof white or black is the same so it makes perfect [...]

Global warming affects are here and now and extremely visible. World’s glaciers are melting faster than all predictions. The only glacier in the Pacific which is in eastern Indonesia may melt away in matter of years not decades as previously estimated. World’s renowned glaciologist Lonnie Thomson has returned from the expedition to the beautiful [...]

Once again a South American president extrapolates in his verbal excesses. As if not enough Lula and Hugo Chavez, now was the time of Evo Morales. Bolivian President, Evo Morales, has surprised his audience by ensuring that the chickens of industrial production are responsible for “deviations” of men for homosexuality and baldness in Europe. At [...]

While corn-based biofuel, particularly corn-based ethanol, has been touted to be the most viable alternative to petroleum and other fossil fuels, the production of such grain-based alternative has sparked many a debate as to its supposed environmental sustainability. Food crop displacement is just one of the trade-offs in the burgeoning ethanol industry. Nowhere [...]