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In 2007 zijn wereldwijd tenminste 1200 mensen geëxecuteerd, dat meldt Amnesty International in een nieuw rapport. In een aantal landen, zoals China, Mongolië, Vietnam, Singapore en Maleisië, gebeurt dit in het geheim.

The ethanol subsidy and other manipulations of the corn market are not helping farmers as much as defenders claim. Much of the “gains” are going into the hands of big companies. End the ethanol program

It all begins with education. Consumer awareness on green building is murky. To put it succinctly it is as clear as mud to most. If you ask anybody what going green means to them, they will likely respond, “environmentally friendly, using clean energy, co

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) has announced its Top Ten Green Projects for 2008.

Conventional fossil-fuel supplies are limited, even if we tear up the Earth to extract every last drop of oil and shard of coal. This limited supply forces prices to rise. The major efforts needed to develop alternative energies have not been made.

One of the world’s leading climate scientists warns today that the EU and its international partners must urgently rethink targets for cutting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because of fears they have grossly underestimated the scale of the problem. In

Paleoclimate data show that climate sensitivity is ~3 deg-C for doubled CO2, including only fast feedback processes. Equilibrium sensitivity, including slower surface albedo feedbacks, is ~6 deg-C for doubled CO2 for the range of climate states between gl

Even breathing in a little ozone at levels found in many areas is likely to kill some people prematurely, the National Research Council reported on Tuesday. The report recommends that the Environmental Protection Agency consider ozone-related mortality i

A proposed solution to reverse the effects of global warming by spraying sulfate particles into Earth’s stratosphere could make matters much worse, climate researchers said on Thursday.

Interview van 3voor12 met Mauro Pawlowski van dEUS n.a.v. de nieuwe cd

Record numbers of complaints have been levelled at major businesses who “severely exaggerate” their environmental credentials, the advertising watchdog will say next week. Airlines, oil companies and car manufacturers have all been censured for adopting t

eSolar, a producer of modular solar thermal power plants, announced (pdf) that is has closed $130 million in funding from Idealab, Google.org, Oak Investment Partners, and other investors for the construction and deployment of pre-fabricated power plants.