This year’s 2008 Beijing Olympics has been termed “Green Olympics“. But how green are the venues that will be hosting the Olympic games?
Lets take a look at three of such venues. Firstly, the National Stadium, known as the “Bird’s Nest” for its latticework of interwoven steel. Secondly, the National Aquatics Centre, or “Water [...]

NASA researchers this week said they are using global satellite data to create maps of ocean areas best suited for wind energy.
The maps will be useful in planning where to build offshore wind farms that can convert wind energy to electricity, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Islands of floating wind farms have the [...]

Remember the article where a 16 year old Canadian teenager found out a way to disintegrate plastic bags in 3 months? Well this time round, two students from Indonesia, Vici Riyani and Adrienne Trinovia Sulistyo, have found a waste treatment solution for styrofoam.

A plan aimed at cultivating high-yield and pest-resistant genetically modified (GM) crops for China to achieve agricultural sustainability has been approved, the Chinese authorities have said.
The State Council announced on its website on Wednesday the approval of the plan, one of the 16 key State plans marked by the central government to achieve breakthroughs in [...]

Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Wednesday announced a loan to Indonesia of US$300m dollars in the first batch of aid under Tokyo’s new initiative on fighting climate change.
Fukuda met with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the Japanese northern resort of Toyako on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit.

Fukuda “highly praised” Indonesia’s [...]

How many ways can we save the environment? 1 way? Maybe 10?
Well you can have as many as 100 ways to save the environment. The list above shows you how you can go about doing it. Now you can do your part for the environment by practising some of the things that are listed like [...]

A little update on the G8 Summit.
The G8 has agreed “to consider and adopt” a target of at least a 50% cut in carbon emissions by 2050. But the deal, agreed at the G8 summit in northern Japan, was immediately rejected by the big five emerging economies, including China and India because they believe it [...]

Oceans becoming acidified due to the absorption of carbon dioxide may have ecological and economic consequences that are difficult to predict but is possibly calamitous, warned a team of chemical oceanographers in the July 4 issue of Science, and halting the changes already underway will likely require even steeper cuts in carbon emissions than those [...]