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It is six in the evening on a weekday - knock-off time. Thinking about the night out with friends that awaits, a worker grabs her personal effects, dumps them into her handbag and makes a hasty exit.
She forgets to turn off her workstation.
Sounds familiar?
Multiply that scenario countless times - from careless use of IT gizmos [...]

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.

In as short as 5 years, lives of many animals and plants in Korea have changed dramatically. The increasing number of summer birds and early blossom of flowers, all of which can be primarily attributed to global warming.
The Ministry of Environment of South Korea has revealed that the cherry blossoms in central Seoul blossomed a [...]

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 [...]

The issue of hormones present in cows milk has always been a debatable one. However, in a recent industry study, injecting cows with a growth hormone known as recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) designed to increase their milk production is said to be environmentally friendly. And how is that so?

The U.K. government’s Met Office has created a Google Earth Skin, and it’ll show you the predicted temperature of Earth in the next 100 years. Sounds interesting until you see the data shown in the file. The Arctic Ocean will get an increase in temperature of 18 degrees celsius while most countries get an increase [...]

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a two-day conference on addressing climate change Monday at the United Nations, urging international action this year on the issue. Some 100 countries are participating in the debate, along with members of the private sector, civil society and individuals from around the world.
The U.N. General Assembly-sponsored meeting is intended to [...]