Italian Bank UniCredit signed a deal with conservation group WWF in order to set the goal to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% by 2020, supporting the EU energy goal – also known as ’20-20-20’ – defined in the “Climate & Energy Package”.
Italian Banking Group Launches its “Green Deal” in Partnership with WWF
May 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Giant Spiders Could Be a Result of Global Warming
May 7, 2009 By 29 Comments
Scientists studying northeastern Greenland’s hairy, meat-eating wolf spiders have discovered every arachnophobe’s worst nightmare. It appears that as the Earth has been warming and summers have been getting longer, the 8-legged hunters have been steadily growing larger and more numerous. And it’s likely that other creepy-crawly species around the world could be growing larger too.
World’s Highest Ski Run Melted Away
May 7, 2009 By 174 Comments
Bolivia’s Chacaltaya Glacier, once known as the world’s highest ski run at 17,388 feet, has completely melted away, serving as a vivid example of the effects of climate change on the glaciers around the globe. “Chacaltaya has disappeared. It no longer exists.” – Dr. Edson Ramirez, Institute of Hydraulics and Hydrology at the Universidad Mayor [...]
NASA’s BioFuel Proposal: Off-shore Algae Harvesting in Plastic Bags
May 7, 2009 By 4 Comments
Picture: Offshore Algae Harvesting in Semi-permeable bags NASA’s design calls for using large plastic bags, made of forward-osmosis membranes, and filled with sewage for offshore harvesting of algae for bio-fuel. My earlier post about leveraging nanotechnology for increasing the commercial viability of Algal bio-fuel opened me up a fantastic world of realizations. The wonderful technologies being developed by NASA [...]
Stephen Colbert Has New Species Named After Him
May 7, 2009 By 5 Comments
Researchers at Arizona State Univerity and the University of New Mexico have named a Venezuelan diving beetle Agaporomorphus colberti in honor of the humorist. One of the outstanding features of the species is the genitalia of the males. “This new species is similar to members of a clade within the genus exemplified by A. knischi…and [...]
