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In the US Great Lakes the The pathogen, viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS - that has killed tens of thousands of fish in recent years i...

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Concerns about energy availability and climate change are becoming more prominent in China; the government  adjusted the tax structure to ...

 

New York Times: A virus that has already killed tens of thousands of fish in the eastern Great Lakes is spreading, scientists said, and no...

... I have to agree with Grist & WorldChanging- Screw Earth Day! Earth Day, which every year has become less and less the revol...

Ah, Earth Day. What could be a better way to celebrate our planet than buying more stuff and then having it shipped halfway across the cou...

New Scientist: A row over the conversion of rainforests into biofuel plantations is creating a grave political crisis for a country until...

As this and 100's of similar articles point out:  Utilities Have Failed To Follow Federal Clean Air Act Regulations for Three Decades ...

Grist lays it out on ethanol...  " Yes, this is another bitter polemic against ethanol, but I want to make one point up front, becau...

From the hugg (moreminimal)  Home improvement giant Home Depot is planning what may be the biggest one-time giveaway of CFLs ever. The reta...

"So many families will never be the same. Their loss hangs over everything we're doing in the Senate today and will for a very lo...

The CEO of Choren says his company plans to start operations later this year at the first commercial-scale site making transport fuels fro...

As know "Green" is the Green to put big corps in the black in 2007. Yahoo is just trying to compete with their latest attempt t...

QUOTE: Schwarzenegger has become the GOP's Al Gore but the trouble is that his "environmentalism" isn't about curbing o...

At less than $3 each. I am sold on buying CFLs instead of incandescent bulbs, at least until LEDs become commercially available at cost ef...

From Article: " If man is contributing to global warming, switching over will help to minimize the impact we have. If we are not contr...

A recent U.S. Government Accountability Office report says that since most studies suggest decline of oil within around three decades, the...

VIA boingboing.com: Disneyland has switched the old time locomotives that pull the Disneyland Railroad to biodiesel: For Disneyland, the s...

"Either this year or next year," China will overtake the United States as the world's biggest emitter of heat-trapping carbon...

Water levels in the Great Lakes have been projected to drop, possibly falling five feet. Notoriously cold winters in Michigan are expected...

From treehugger  ( Via::CNN ) " We're all aware that people with allergies to nuts must be particularly careful around th...

This was news back on 1998 (EPA) and earlier... where did it go? and why is it back ;-) Ethanol is widely touted as an eco-friendly, cle...

Summary: While the future of the Cornbelt may be ethanol, the future will also be focused on innovations with livestock feed rations resul...

Jessica L. Reiner, Chung M. Wong, Kathleen F. Arcaro, and Kurunthachalam Kannan (Article) DOI: Linked Here

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Another day, another story about cellulosic ethanol pointing out that, like the Star Wars missile system, it's a technology capable of...

Chemical Industry Expands Work with EPA in Solving Environmental Problems The American Chemistry Council (ACC), which represents 13...

Business Times: Oakland topped a list of U.S. cities using renewable energy, with 17 percent of its power coming from solar, wind and geo...

Shoppers are unwittingly playing a part in the destruction of one of the world's last great wildlife habitats by buying flooring made ...

Christian Science Monitor: Native plants are emerging as the new heroes in a growing struggle to deal with climate change. In communities ...

Associated Press: Switching from gasoline to ethanol -- touted as a green alternative at the pump -- may create dirtier air, causing slig...

Reuters: Tropical rain forest is being cut down and burned to make way for soy and palm plantations destined to provide plant-based diesel...

When: April 21 - 22, 2007 Where: McCormick Place, 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive in Chicago The Chicago green festival features more than 200 vi...

Chemists at UCLA have designed new organic structures for the storage of voluminous amounts of gases for use in alternative energy technol...