Environment
Discarded wrapping paper, festive cards could fuel over 20 moon trips
23 Dec 2011
If all the UK's discarded wrapping paper and Christmas cards were collected and fermented, they could make enough biofuel to run a double-decker bus to the moon and back more than 20 times, according to the researchers behind a new scientific study
Shell reports spill at Gulf of Mexico drill site
20 Dec 2011
EPA fails to nail shale in flawed report
19 Dec 2011
Bioboost for biomass-based energy
17 Dec 2011
Brazil sues Chevron, Transocean for $10.7 bn over oil spill
15 Dec 2011
The civil suit filed yesterday by Brazil's federal prosecutor in Rio de Janeiro also seeks to suspend the companies from operating in the country
Samsung ACs top BEE Star label appliance award
14 Dec 2011
Canada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol
13 Dec 2011
Brazil senate passes controversial forestry bill
07 Dec 2011
Fresh Fukushima leak may contaminate ocean
05 Dec 2011
Large quantities of highly radioactive water from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, have leaked through a crack in the wall of a treatment facility to the Pacific Ocean