ScienceDaily: Deficit irrigation is an agricultural technique used to achieve a variety of results depending…
Month: February 2009
Oceans will become oxygen depleted if fossil-fuel use remains unchecked
Innovations Report: Researchers in Denmark have shown that unless human-induced greenhouse-gas emissions are substantially reduced,…
Cyprus races to save wilting forests hit by drought
Reuters: Conservationists in Cyprus are in a race against time to save the island’s forests…
Poles apart but warming greater than thought
Sydney Morning Herald: A TWO-YEAR research effort by the world’s leading scientists has uncovered evidence…
Australia: Wetlands threatened as Yamba plans to develop flood plain
Sydney Morning Herald: THE holiday hamlet of Yamba is one step closer to a huge…
Scientists find bigger than expected polar ice melt
Telegraph: Research has already shown the Arctic and Antarctic are melting due to rising temperatures….
Scientists to stop global warming with 100,000 square mile sun shade
Telegraph: According to astronomer Dr Roger Angel, at the University of Arizona, the trillions of…
$25 billion to promote electric cars is untouched
New York Times: The future of the American auto industry is getting off to a…
Businesses urged to “wake up” to water risks
Business Green: Global water shortages are a greater and more imminent threat to businesses than…
United Kingdom: Carbon capture won’t work until 2030, says energy boss
Guardian: Sam Laidlaw, chief executive of Centrica, has warned that coal plants fitted with carbon…