Climate Change
LEAD: For a sustainable livestock production
Livestock production is one of the major causes of the world’s most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution and loss of biodiversity. Using a methodology that considers the entire commodity chain, it is estimated [...]
Dividing the problem, the greenhouse gases
The atmosphere is made up of numerous gases. The ones in larger quantities are nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%). This leaves around only 1% for other gases such as carbon dioxide (the famous CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), [...]
Can cooling down the planet heat up the economy?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the US government, the national unemployment rate, last October, rose to 10.2%, the highest one since April 1983. Unemployment means wanting to work and not finding a job. It may mean [...]
What is carbon or emissions trading?
For many people, climate change is already a fact. Scientific studies are all around, showing us over and over again how we humans are so mistakenly managing natural resources that we are bringing on our own destruction. We are altering [...]
Interactive simulation models help environmental decision-making
Picture yourself as a politician, or a decision-maker, who, among other things, needs to address climate change. The day may come when you need to decide how much to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. How can you decide on this wisely [...]
The M2M Partnership seeks to lower methane emissions
The Methane to Markets Partnership is an international initiative that works to investigate and foster cost-effective methods to avoid methane leaks, and to use it as a clean energy source. This task is an important one. Why? Because methane accounts [...]
A zero-emissions bus presented in Washington DC
Two North American companies, Altair Nanotechnologies and Proterra LLC designed and put together a bus that generates near zero greenhouse gas emissions. The bus has transported Congressmen this past week, as a way of being introduced to DC. Among its [...]
A non-polluting, ecological cement that absorbs greenhouse gases
A British company has developed a kind of cement that can absorb carbon dioxide. This is a very interesting development for the sustainable architecture movement, since carbon dioxide is the main gas that causes the greenhouse effect on our planet, [...]
