Items tagged with emission

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10 Best and Worst Cellphone Radiation Levels Friday, September 11th, 2009 - 09:01:25 - Anuradha Menon How much radiation does your cell phone emit? It's easy to find out the answer thanks to the Environmental Working Group's new online guide to cell... read more

G8 Leaders Fail to Agree on Carbon Cuts Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 - 16:25:47 - Sarah Gingichashvili Leaders of the world's major industrialized nations have formally agreed for the first time that average global temperatures should not increase by... read more

Greening the Internet Saturday, July 11th, 2009 - 14:45:32 - Anuradha Menon Twenty milligrams; that's the average amount of carbon emissions generated from the time it took you to read the first two words of this article... read more

Train Can Be Worse for Climate than Plane Monday, June 8th, 2009 - 09:58:42 - Ehud Rattner A new study compares the "full life-cycle" emissions generated by 11 different modes of transportation in the US. Unlike previous studies on... read more

Waggling Wings Could Cut Aircraft Emissions Friday, May 22nd, 2009 - 10:43:31 - Anuradha Menon Wings which redirect air to waggle sideways could cut airline fuel bills by 20% according to research funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences... read more

Carbon Trading Won't Stop Climate Change Monday, April 20th, 2009 - 16:01:52 - Ehud Rattner One day renewable energy looks like a sunrise industry, the next, tumbleweeds are blowing around a setting solar panel. What has changed? The price... read more

Spam is Bad for the Environment Thursday, April 16th, 2009 - 10:21:53 - Anuradha Menon Here's another reason to despise spam e-mail: It's bad for the environment. According to a study released Wednesday by McAfee Inc., the amount of... read more

Geoengineering Could Cool the Climate Thursday, January 29th, 2009 - 16:52:37 - Anuradha Menon The first comprehensive assessment of the climate cooling potential of different geoengineering schemes has been carried out by researchers at the... read more

Trading Conservation for Toxic Air Emissions Friday, October 3rd, 2008 - 12:09:43 - Anuradha Menon A team of Yale scientists has found that certain countries and some U.S. states stand to benefit from the use of compact fluorescent lighting more... read more

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