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CNA Experts say Singapore can build a system to protect itself from rising sea levels due to global warming – they recommend dykes, or a sea defence system. As an island Singapore can be affected by rising sea levels as a result of melting ice caps because of global warming. : Dykes are used to [...]

European Space Agency As climate change continues to make headlines across the world, participants at the 2007 Envisat Symposium this week are hearing how Earth observation satellites allow scientists to better understand the parameters involved in global warming and how this is impacting the planet. : Average temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula have risen over [...]

CNA In a move to take bilateral relations to a strategic level, Singapore and China have agreed to jointly-develop an environmentally-friendly city. : Details including the choice of the Chinese city are still being worked out. But Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said he hopes to put up a proposal to the Chinese side very [...]

Royal Astronomical Society Professor Nigel Weiss, 2007 winner of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Gold medal, will rebut claims that a fall in solar activity could cancel out the effects of man-made global warming. In a lecture on Wednesday 18 April at the RAS-sponsored National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Professor Weiss, who is Emeritus Professor [...]

AP Jacobson’s study Switching from gasoline to ethanol – touted as a green alternative at the pump – may create dirtier air, causing slightly more smog-related deaths, a new study says. Nearly 200 more people would die yearly from respiratory problems if all vehicles in the United States ran on a mostly ethanol fuel blend [...]

WWF A deal signed between Thailand and Myanmar would clear the way for the first large-scale hydropower plant on the Salween River in north-eastern Myanmar. The project could displace and negatively impact upon tens of thousands of poor and marginalized people from ethnic minorities in that country, warns WWF. The Salween River is the longest [...]

emagazine : The Foodys developed a steam explosion process, a first step in collapsing the tough cellulose fibers of wood chips, straw, or grass to extract the sugars (carbohydrates) needed to make ethyl alcohol, or ethanol. The second step was a gift from nature. They had heard of a military problem in Guam during World [...]

xprize.org The Automotive X PRIZE will invite teams from around the world to focus on a single goal: design, build, and sell super-efficient cars that people want to buy. Why an Automotive X PRIZE? Because today’s oil consumption is not sustainable – our current use of oil endangers our health, our economy, and the political [...]

reuters Better architecture and energy savings in buildings could do more to fight global warming than all curbs on greenhouse gases agreed under the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol, a U.N. study showed on Thursday. Better use of concrete, metals and timber in construction and less use of energy for everything from air conditioners to lighting in [...]

Reuter One of the world’s largest solar energy plants, covering the hills of a valley dotted with olive groves in southern Portugal, started delivering electricity to about 8,000 homes on Wednesday. The solar panels, which are raised around 2 meters off the ground, cover an area of 60 hectares (150 acres) and produce 11 megawatts [...]