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The Australian Reported by Mark Henderson THE world will warm by 3C, even under the most optimistic emissions projections for 2050, according to the UN group that studies global warming. The increase, which would cause drought and famine for 400 million people and devastate wildlife, is predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in [...]

scifun.chem.wisc.edu e85fuel.com wikipedia Ethanol (ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol) is a clear, colorless liquid with a characteristic, agreeable odor. In dilute aqueous solution, it has a somewhat sweet flavor, but in more concentrated solutions it has a burning taste. Ethanol, CH3CH2OH, is an alcohol, a group of chemical compounds whose molecules contain a hydroxyl group, OH, [...]

AP The murky green Dasha River has been dirty for decades, polluted by coal mines and steel mills that make it fit only for watering livestock and crops downstream. Then a truck overturned on a windy, mountain road this month, dumping at least 60 tons of potentially carcinogenic coal tar into the water. That spill [...]

Ciclonudista More than one hundred cyclists wearing only shoes and helmets rode through the centre of the city of Madrid to highlight environmental issues. The Ciclonudista 06 was the third annual naked cyclist rally to be held in the city to protest against cars. Click to see the video

technologyreview.com Jim Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Credit: Ben Baker) Jim Hansen may be the most respected climate scientist in the world. He’s been director of NASA’s premier climate research center, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), for 25 years and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) [...]

The Independent World’s greatest ape extinct within decades, warns UN The gorilla is threatened with extinction by the mid-21st century if poaching and destruction of its habitat continue at the current rate, the United Nations has warned. Within a decade, three of the four sub-species of the great ape could be wiped out, it says. [...]

The Independent : : Today the hare has acquired yet another identity. It has become one of the icons of the environmental movement. It has even acquired its own protection group, the British Brown Hare Preservation Society. The hare was one of the first wild animals to receive its own Species Action Plan in the [...]

Guardian Conservationists are warning of an impending crisis in British biodiversity after recording dramatic countrywide declines in some of the most common moth species. Records spanning nearly four decades show two-thirds of the country’s most popular moths are declining, amounting to about 220 separate species. Numbers of 71 species, more than a fifth of the [...]

TerraDaily Hong Kong’s leader Donald Tsang Monday pledged to tackle the city’s worsening air pollution and urged the public to do its bit in the clean-up. Tsang said the government had done much to clean up the air but acknowledged more needed to be done. : : Tsang said power stations were the major source [...]

abcNEWS Japan plans to fight global warming and surging oil prices by requiring that all vehicles on the road be able to run on an environment-friendly mix of ethanol and regular gasoline by 2030, an official said Thursday. The new policy, adopted by the Environment Ministry this month, will require all new cars to be [...]