Category Archives: climate change

Shanghai Skyline Could Worsen Threat of Rising Seas

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

Shanghai, China’s most populous city and an aspiring global financial center, is also among the world’s most vulnerable urban areas to a rise in sea levels as global warming melts polar ice. Its location on a low-lying alluvial plain near … Continue reading →

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Biggest CO2 Offenders

Posted on October 3, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

The Palace of Westminster and the Bank of England have been exposed as among the country’s least energy efficient public buildings by a new law to measure carbon dioxide emissions from the national estate. Around 18,000 buildings, including town halls, … Continue reading →

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World’s first wave energy farm goes live

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

On Tuesday the 23th of September, the deployment of the first commercial wave energy farm in the world started. A Pelamis unit was towed into the sea, connected to an underwater cable and moored to the sea floor, at a … Continue reading →

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Scientists to boost Southern Ocean CO2 monitoring

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

Oceans absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide and the Southern Ocean between Australia and Antarctica plays the greatest role of all the world’s oceans, scientists say. The problem is there is no permanent monitoring of the Southern Ocean because of … Continue reading →