Jan 28, 2009
Courtesy of: Emily Sohn, Discovery News - Jan. 22, 2009 -- Plant a tree: Save 25 bucks. Researchers in California have found that planting trees in strategic locations around your house can lower your summertime electricity bill by that much or more.
Fact Sheet: Fighting Neglected Tropical Diseases Around The World
Feb 20, 2008
Source: The White House -Office of the Press Secretary - President Bush Announces New Global Initiative To Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases
President Bush Participates in Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change
Feb 20, 2008
Source: The White House - Protecting Our Nations Environment - "Energy security and climate change are two of the great challenges of our time. The United States takes these challenges seriously. The world's response will help shape the future of....
Feb 19, 2008
Source: VOA - Ghanaians are reportedly excited about the arrival today (Tuesday) of United States President George Bush in the nations capital, Accra as part of his five-nation Africa tour. While in Ghana, Mr. Bush is expected to hold bilateral talks...
Oct 24, 2007
Courtesy of Moneyweek.com: With an average return of 14.4% last year, the best for at least 13 years, the forestry sector is winning fresh converts among investors...
Trees To Fight Hog WasteResearchers Say Poplars Can Suck Up 3,000 Gallons An Acre
Aug 6, 2007
Courtesty of CBC News: (AP) After years of struggling with the dirty disposal problem of sludge from hog waste lagoons, researchers have come up with a possible green solution - poplar trees that suck up the waste like soda straws.
Jul 23, 2007
Courtesty of MSNBC: LONDON - Emergency workers battled rising waters Monday to rescue people trapped by floods that swallowed large swaths of central Britain. Roads were submerged, and tens of thousands of people were left without electricity...
Mideast conflict slows rescue of Dead Sea; nations warn it could vanish by 2050
Jun 11, 2007
Courtesty of CBC News: GHOR HADITHA, Jordan (AP) - Jordan, Israel and the Palestinians are slowly pushing through the tangle of their disputes and suspicions in a race to save a biblical and ecological treasure, the Dead Sea.
MSNBC.com Article: Warming 'Very Likely' Due to Man, Report to Say
Feb 1, 2007
Officials from 113 countries agreed Thursday that a much-awaited report will say that recent global warming was "very likely" caused by human activity _ a significant change from an earlier report.
MSNBC.com Article: What To Do With Your Carbon Emissions...
Feb 1, 2007
Making life "carbon neutral" through tree-planting and other environmentally friendly efforts is a hot theme as scientists in Paris this week prepare to issue a major report on global warming...
Dec 4, 2006
Courtesy of BBC News (Nov. 24, 2006) There is confusion over what poisoned the ex-spy
Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian ex-spy who said he was the victim of a poisoning, has died in hospital...
Oct 31, 2006
Courtesy of Arizona Republic (Oct.31, 2006) LONDON - Raising the stakes in the global warming dispute with the United States and China, Britain issued a sweeping report Monday warning that the Earth faces a calamity on the scale of the world wars...
