The Many Solar Energy Uses and How Solar Energy Works Before diving into the vast number of solar energy uses, its important to have a solid understanding of solar energy itself and how it actually works. Solar energy is electricity generated by the Sun’s radiation that is absorbed through sq...

“Kansas Governor Rejects Two Coal-Fired Power Plants TOPEKA, Kansas, March 21, 2008 (ENS) - Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius today vetoed legislation that would have overturned a decision of her administration to deny an permit application to build two new coal-fired power plants because of t...

“U.S. Power Plant Carbon Emissions Zoom in 2007 WASHINGTON, DC, March 18, 2008 (ENS) - The biggest single year increase in greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants in nine years occurred in 2007, finds a new analysis by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Environmental Integrity Project. The fin...

“(Washington – February 25, 2008) Environmental Defense today commented on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s latest climate change “white paper.” ” ~Environmental Defense Read the rest of the story at EnvironmentalDefense.org… ...

ROME, Italy, February 3, 2008 (ENS) - The world has lost about 20 percent of its wetland mangrove forests since 1980, the United Nations said Thursday in a new report to mark World Wetlands Day, February 2. Mangroves are salt tolerant evergreen forests found along coastlines, lagoons, rivers or delt...

By J.R. Pegg WASHINGTON, DC, February 1, 2008 (ENS) - The head of the United Nations scientific climate panel spoke with U.S. lawmakers Wednesday, encouraging them lead the world in cooling the overheated planet. “We really don’t have a moment to lose,” said Rajendra Pachauri, c...

PORTLAND, Oregon, January 29, 2008 (ENS) - Global warming is being explored at more than 1,500 universities, colleges and high schools across the country this week in what organizers are calling the largest teach-in in American history. The problems posed by Earth’s warming climate and the bes...

By J.R. Pegg WASHINGTON, DC, January 10, 2008 (ENS) ? Concern about environmental degradation is beginning to impact the global economy, according to a new report by an international environmental research group. The Worldwatch Institute details a lengthy and distressing list of environmental probl...

NUSA DUA, Bali, Indonesia, December 15, 2007 (ENS) - Governments meeting in Bali today agreed to launch negotiations towards a strengthened international climate change pact. The new treaty will be a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012. Success at the UN climate...

By J.R. Pegg WASHINGTON, DC, December 14, 2007 (ENS) – The U.S. Senate approved a landmark energy bill Thursday night that requires the first increase in vehicle fuel economy standards in more than 30 years. But the bill is far less ambitious than Democrats wanted, as they bowed to pressure...