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Eco–Boat Crosses Arctic to Monitor Global Warming
The United Nations-supported polar research boat Tara has broken free from the Arctic ice sheet after a record-breaking scientific expedition of over 500 days drifting across the top of the world to gauge the impact of ...
Eco–Car Race is On
This year, the future of the motorcar may be decided not in the BMW boardroom, nor on the Fiat factory floor, but around the kitchen table of a home inventor with a very big idea. Such is the democratising power of the A...
Over 120,000 displaced by flooding in southern Africa - UN
The number of people displaced by recent flooding in southern Africa has nearly doubled in less than a week from 70,000 to more than 120,000, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) ...
Wal–Mart Chief Pledges to be Greener
In a speech that promised widespread improvement and reform throughout Wal-Mart and its supply chain, Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott, Jr., pledged to cut the energy used by many of its company's products 25 percent, reports t...
B&Q To Cut Patio Heaters
B&Q has announced it is to stop selling environmentally damaging patio heaters once its current stock is sold off.
Shell Tackling Low Carbon Futures
IT HAS been a busy week. Global equity markets suddenly went into meltdown at the prospect of a US recession. Quite where the market traders have been living for the past six months is not clear. Then out of the blue, Jo...
Virgin's Green Fund
Virgin Money is launching a green fund which will invest only in companies committed to high environmental standards.
Irish doctor expresses concern over mercury disposal
A Cork GP has expressed concern about the use of mercury products in the Irish health service, following the mercury ban in Norway.
Britain will need 12,500 wind farms to satisfy EU targets
A rapid and vast expansion of renewable energy is on the way in Britain to help with the fight against climate change, it was revealed yesterday.
Japanese Paper–Thin Recycling Story
The reputation of Japan's paper industry lay in tatters today after the market leader, Oji Paper, admitted it had lied for more than a decade about the volume of recycled paper used in some of its products.