European industry is suffering under soaring energy costs. Profit warnings are becoming more common and industry leaders predict plant closures and job losses may follow.
Companies say they are doing all they can to improve their game but want government help.
Britain’s Castle Cement, part of Germany’s Heidelberg Cement, is a case in point. Its cement furnace in Stamford, [...]

And costs far less than a Prius!Here is a interesting story about someone who won a mileage competition with one of these cars.They were made using a Suzuki engine in a GM joint venture.At the time they were laughed at,and treated as a “disposable car”;hence the supply of these is not great.naturally they are selling [...]

Renewable power sources like wind and solar are some of the fastest growing sectors in the energy business.
But this graph forecasts that coal, the dirtiest power source in terms of carbon dioxide and other pollutants, will still dominate global power generation growth for decades into the future.
The forecast, released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the statistics branch of the [...]

Slowing economies and tightening domestic budgets are combining to pose a stern test of moral backbone for politicians, many of who have a view of the future that extends to the next election and little further.
Already some voices are being raised to call for a slowdown in actions to curb carbon emissions because of the [...]

Pollution in the Baltic Sea is causing “dead zones” — and unappetising cocktails and soups

Skater jumps and falls through the ice: not a sign of global warming!

Defence analysts in South Asia have been saying for so long that India and Pakistan might solve their problems over Kashmir only to end up at war over water that I had almost become inured to the issue. That was until I read the following comment on an earlier blog about Gulf investors buying up farmland in Pakistan to [...]

 
There are two turtle tales brewing on the coast of Texas at the moment and they’re both good.
First the numbers tale. 
The dedicated folks at the South Padre Island conservation facility Sea Turtle, Inc, report record numbers of nests by endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles.
“We have had record numbers of ridley nests on the Texas coast this [...]

As part of my job covering the world of alternative fuels, General Motors last week gave me the keys to a hydrogen-powered SUV, the Chevrolet Equinox.  You won’t find the Equinox in any showrooms, and in fact, the car I drove for four days is one of just 100 such vehicles in the United States.
Despite their small [...]

Deborah Brosnan swears she doesn’t court disaster. But it does seem to follow her around and she has cultivated expertise in what might be called environmental “disaster-ology.”
A marine biologist who specializes in the impact of natural disasters on ecosystems and people, Brosnan narrowly survived a plane crash after working [...]

The U.S. housing market may be in a serious slump, but competition for big chunks of land in the hot, dry Southwest is heating up.
Developers of solar and wind power projects are scrambling to get their hands on swathes of land in the U.S. West that not only have lots of sun or wind, but [...]

A new exhibit in New York about the life of the late iconoclastic architect, inventor, engineer, and philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller raises questions about the type of ideas he might have used to confront global warming