Jurdy: Taking a swing
Jurdy’s on the ropes in defense of the world’s rainforests …
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Greenland ice sheet
Greenland's ice loss speeds up, pushing sea levels higher
The Greenland ice sheet is losing mass at an accelerating rate, researchers reported this week in a study published in Science. Two factors are contributing equally to the loss: an increase in the number of icebergs released into the ocean as the flow of Greenland’s outlet glaciers speeds up,
green IT
Sustainable irony: Alive and well at the Green IT Expo
The following is a guest commentary by Aydin Kurt-Elli, CEO of Lumison, a UK-based business ISP: If I learned one thing this week from Green IT Expo in London it’s that irony is alive and well and appears to be the most sustainable of all energy supplies, powering entire
tipping points
Wow: Climate can jump from mild to Arctic in just months
Doubt that environmental tipping points can change the Earth’s climate in a geologic blink of an eye? Doubt no more. Using unprecendented fine-scale measurements from a mud core taken from an Irish lake, researchers have found evidence that the Younger Dryas mini-ice age — which started about 12,800 years
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Are you a UK-based cleantech startup that’s looking for funding? Let us know, and — if your technology fits the bill — we might be inviting you to our inaugural investment event. We’re looking for firms seeking up to £500,000 on this round. For now, we’ll stay mum
electric cars
Without green energy & efficiency, electric cars aren't the answer
While a shift to electric cars is widely touted as a brilliant way to reduce carbon emissions and dependence on oil, less attention goes to the issue of where the electricity for those cars will come from. That’s a big question to leave sitting out there unanswered. If we
natural gas
New catalyst could make it easier to tap world's methane
While the world has 60 years’ worth of recoverable natural gas resources, it doesn’t tap that energy source as much as it could, largely because methane requires either costly pipelines to transport as a gas or uneconomical processing to convert it to a more easily transported liquid fuel. Researchers
global warming
Mission: Protect world's historic sites from climate change
As international leaders prepare for December talks on tackling climate change, European and North African scientists are studying ways to protect some of the world’s most historic structures from global warming. The EU-backed “Climate for Culture” project, which kicked off this week, aims to assess how climate change will
Jurdy: Digging deep for the climate
Jurdy aims for the core on climate action …
energy security
New 'World Energy Outlook': Realistic or fudged?
The International Energy Agency (IEA) usually garners a lot of attention when it releases its annual “World Energy Outlook,” but today’s publication follows some much less-welcome attention: news that a whistleblower says the agency has regularly fudged figures to make global oil reserves look better … and fuel production declines
low carbon
Current policy is hurting, not helping, UK's low-carbon goals
Britain’s current energy planning system poses a barrier to energy security and a low-carbon future, Energy and Climate Secretary Ed Miliband told Parliament this week. In presenting the draft National Policy Statements (NPS) for reform, he also set out an ambitious new policy for the transition to clean coal
wind energy
Onshore wind development gets £1.4 billion boost in UK
Onshore wind farm developers in Britain could get access to as much as £1.4 billion in new funding to help them start construction over the next three years. Three UK-based banks began offering new loans to eligible onshore wind farms during a forum in London hosted by Energy &