Iranian Atomic Energy Organization officials say the impending Aug. 21 opening of the country’s first nuclear power plant demonstrates Iran’s ability to withstand international pressure and pursue domestic policy goals. Iran is under multiple sets of United Nations-backed sanctions over concerns the country’s nuclear program may be intended to create weapons. Read more on: Bloomberg
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German authorities are looking to provide massive funding for the development of electric cars to boost the domestic auto industry and help curb greenhouse-gas emissions. But some industry insiders warn emission gains from electric cars are minimal and the vehicles’ limited travel distances on a single charge constrains their market potential.
The German government wants to [...]
Maria is a ChangeMaker student (Stage 2) who lives in Kenya. She is engaged with several environmental projects. To work with “own projects” is the main activity for all Stage 2 students. One of the projects that she is working with is “Save Lake Naivasha”. She had been in the area around the lake and [...]
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No Comments »A report assembled by the Rights and Resources Initiative and conservation partners argues the failure to reach a concrete initiative at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen demonstrates the West does not have an adequate plan to implement or enforce Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, its program for curbing deforestation.
Though REDD has [...]
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Posted in Children, Climate Change, Education, Energy, Environment, Grassroots, Health, Human Rights, Hunger, MDGs, Sanitation, Water, Women Tags: Environment No Comments »Experts predict solar panel costs, which have fallen 40% since last year, will fall further.
The price of producing solar panels has plunged thanks primarily to an increase in polysilicon production in China and a slowdown in demand, primarily in Spain — where generous subsidies for solar-panel development have been cut in response to the global [...]
Irrigating vegetable plants by sewage water is causing various diseases in Chiniot (It is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan).
Vegetable sold in the city markets are being irrigated by sewerage water which is contaminated by the wastes of hospitals, laboratories and industries and the domestic wastes combined at the main pumping station.
The [...]
One billion people face food insecurity and hunger this year because of high prices and the continuing global economic crisis, Jacques Diouf, head of the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization, said today. Diouf said investments of $30 billion a year in agricultural production is needed to halt the spread of hunger.
The number of chronically [...]
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Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Environment Tags: Ban Ki Moon, Climate Change, Environment, Pollution No Comments »1,539 cities and towns in 80 countries have already committed to VOTE EARTH for Earth Hour 2009, as part of the worlds first global election between Earth and global warming.
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