Brazil’s plan to build the world’s third-largest hydroelectric dam in the Amazon is drawing scathing criticism from a rare combination of investors and environmentalists, creating a potential political headache for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Accounting for more than half of the world’s standing forest and 55 percent of Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions through its destruction, the Amazon is both a villain and a victim of climate change
The Danone group is implementing an approach to carbon emissions which combines economic, societal and environmental objectives. And Danone chose to focus on carbon to drive fast, radical and sustainable change at every level of its organisation
Two Russian scientists have persuaded the Nobel Committee that Carbon manipulation can produce results
Fundamental to the success of combating global climate change and reducing dependence on oil is changing each person’s behavior. This includes moving a critical mass of people from traditional gas-powered vehicles to eco-friendly electric vehicles. This means we need to create high demand for electric cars
Physicists at the CERN research centre have said they had created 10 million mini-Big Bangs in the first week of mega-power operations of their marathon probe into the secrets of the cosmos
Something like 90 percent of the world’s oceans remain unexplored, but that’s not through lack of scientific or commercial interest. Working in deep water is slow, expensive and dangerous
Will the mass market drive electric cars? Joan Bryna Michelson looks at the evidence
New CCS technology can now pipe carbon dioxide from coal and gas power stations to underground storage reservoirs. Pioneers like Norway, the Netherlands and the UK are already trailblazing the technology – and the green paybacks, argues Hans Bolscher, will be huge
Britain’s food watchdog said it had found that meat from the offspring of a cloned cow had entered the UK food chain and had been eaten, stirring controversy over whether such products are ethical
Touch screens have been a geek fetish since Tom Cruise flipped data around with his fingers in Minority Report. A new technology from Portugal’s version of Silicon Valley could bring that keyboard-free vision of computing a step closer to reality
The latest challenge from Kerself is aimed at Borsa Italiana (the Italian Stock Exchange), with the company in the process of upgrading to the market reserved for high requirement companies with a high level of liquidity, known as the STAR.
