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Air travel can be quite an interesting event for many, but after a few minutes of flying, one tends to get extremely bored and then the flight becomes a nuisance with passengers just waiting for the journey to end. However, the flight can become one memorable experience, if you have someone to spend your time with, connect with and share your entire [...]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is known for their amazing research papers and studies. This time around, the Senseable City Laboratory at MIT has created a wheel which is able to garner kinetic energy when a rider applies breaks. It would be used when a rider needs boost while riding. They are even calling it “Biking 2.0″ just like [...]

At the world Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark the World Meteorological Organization has announced some alarming results in regards to the changes in the climate of our planet. As per the agency, in entire recorded human history, the period between 2000-2009 has been the warmest and represents a trends of continuous climb in temperatures. However, [...]

Greenpeace has blocked one of the world’s largest pulp mills, owned by Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), in the heart of Indonesia’s rainforests, an attempt on the eve of the critical UN Copenhagen Climate Summit. Greenpeace activists ‘occupied one of the cranes for 27 hours in extreme conditions. All activists have now been detained by [...]

On his way to collect Nobel Peace Prize on 10th Dec President Obama is likely to make a quick stopover in Copenhagen on 9th Dec to attend international climate change meeting. Not only would he be attending a meeting, he is expected to announce reduction of greenhouse gases by US in the coming years. Of course this will be provisional target of US [...]

In the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December, African countries are boycotting climate change conferences. They allege that ‘the world’s rich nations must do more to cut emissions.’ This is just one of the hurdles being encountered by the controversial climate deal negotiations whose final agreements hope [...]

Major negotiating camps in the upcoming climate deal are lapsing into ‘a new and dangerous form of trade and technology protectionism’ in the name of climate change. The unfortunate turn of events is ‘poisoning North-South relations in the two negotiating arenas on climate change and on trade.’ It seems that developed countries, especially [...]

In the countdown to the much-awaited and carefully-prepared for climate summit to be held in Copenhagen towards the end of 2009, ‘the United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty that, it is now widely acknowledged, [...]

Oceans becoming more acidic and warmer due to emissions of carbon dioxide would cause the death of coral reefs around the world by the end of the century, according to a warning from several experts that recently gathered in London. More than twenty experts on coral reefs and climate change came together on behalf of several universities, government [...]

March 28 is still fresh in everyone’s memory because of the best orchestrated Earth Hour Campaign. People and places all over the world switched off their lights for one hour to vote for the Earth and against global warming on that day. The response was overwhelming. No doubt this winning campaign has bagged Cannes PR Lion 2009 award. In the globalised [...]