Category Archives: Environment

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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Why is Peru getting colder while the rest of the world heats up?

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

Scientists are using everything from a yellow submarine to weather balloons and special airplanes to solve a climate conundrum: why is Peru getting colder while the rest of the world heats up? Researchers from Europe, the United States and South … 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 →