Bangalore’s Eko Vehicles has launched the world’s first hybrid motorcycle in partnership with United States-based Emerging Vehicle Technologies Inc.
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The new Eko ET-120 motorcycle is fitted with a high power electric motor with a 70 cubic centimeter four-stroke petrol engine that charges a battery while running.
The new Eko ET-120 motorcycle is fitted with a high power [...]
Far from Copenhagen’s turbulent climate talks, the sea lions, harbor seals and sea otters reposing along the shoreline and kelp forests of Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary marine area, stand to gain from any global deal to cut greenhouse gases. These foragers of the sanctuary’s frigid waters, flipping in and out of sight of California’s [...]
Prices of everyday goods such as clothing and food will barely rise if rich nations slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to a study that concludes green lifestyles are affordable.
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The study, in New Scientist magazine based on data for Britain from consultancy Cambridge Econometrics, said prices of only a few consumer goods dependent [...]
Ocean Power Technologies Inc. has tapped Clackamas-based Oregon Iron Works to construct its first commercial wave energy station in North America.
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The construction of the PowerBuoy system is the first phase of an expected 1.5-megawatt wave power station located off the Oregon coast near Reedsport.
The Reedsport wave energy station will utilize 10 PowerBuoy systems, with the [...]
Wind energy alone could help attain up to 65 percent of the emission reduction pledges by industrialized countries, states a report by the Global Wind Energy Council, an international forum for the wind energy sector.
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The council calculated that global wind energy alone could contribute 34 percent of a 25 percent emissions reduction and 21 percent [...]
Researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles found a way to create genetically modified bacteria called cyanobacterium, which consume carbon dioxide and produce the liquid fuel isobutanol, reported Science Daily.
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The research originally published on Wednesday in the journal Nature of Biotechnology states that consumption of carbon dioxide is directly powered by the sun, [...]
New Mexico will be drafting a statewide plan to turn itself into a leader in the United States biofuel industry, a renewable energy area where the state’s officials see huge potential.
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The plan, to be presented in April next year, will be a comprehensive biofuels roadmap for the state. It will get input from an advisory [...]
Worried you haven’t been green enough in life? Don’t let death come in the way of a more eco-friendly you.
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From coffins made of recycled cardboard to saying no to embalming chemicals that seep into the soil, people are increasingly searching for ways to make their final resting place a more environmentally-friendly one.
Now cremation, the [...]
According to the Met Office, man-made climate change will be a factor and natural weather patterns would contribute less to 2010’s temperature than they did in 1998, the current warmest year in the 160-year record.
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El Niño effect, the cyclical heating of the Pacific Ocean, is much weaker than it was in 1998, but the Met [...]
Carbon dioxide indirectly causes up to 50% more global warming than originally thought, a finding that raises questions over targets for stabilising carbon emissions over the long term, a study said on Sunday.
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In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, British scientists said a tool commonly used in climate modelling may have badly [...]