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Across America, a number of homeowners are beginning to reduce their household energy usage. But why? It seems like a simple question with an obvious answer: those who conserve energy are probably doing so either to save money or to reduce their impact on the environment. But, as with many
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Think your puny efforts to switch off lights or wash laundry in cold water don’t really mean much in the large-scale picture of carbon dioxide emissions? Think again, says a British researcher whose painstaking study has found that policy-makers are wildly underestimating the impact of household conservation strategies. The
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Biology students in Madagascar whose laboratory once had no furniture — much less internet access — now have access to laptops, GPS receivers and other equipment that will let them monitor and conserve the environment with satellite technology. The equipment and training came from scientists at the University of Bath who helped
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Ever walked through a wild meadow only to find yourself flipping endlessly through a field guide in a vain effort to identify an unusual plant? If so, then you’ll appreciate the work being done by an international team of researchers, who hope to develop a quick and easy “barcode”
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Creating conservation areas — even small ones — in the oceans could help better protect endangered whale species, according to the findings of international researchers. Scientists in Scotland, Canada and the US describe their findings in a new issue of the journal Animal Conservation. “There are enormous challenges associated with setting conservation
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Knowledge, apparently, is not always power. That, least, appears to be the lesson learned from a new study commissioned by IBM, which found that, while Generation Y (18- to 24-year-olds) is the most informed on environmental issues, it’s also the worst offender in the areas of energy awareness and
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Here’s an easy way to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions: use revolving doors instead of standard entryways whenever you can. According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), revolving doors help reduce the amount of heat lost from buildings when people walk in or out. Student researchers there have
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If not everyone is taking the steps they should to reduce their energy consumption, at least most realize they should be. Not so with water, though: the Environment Agency this week released numbers showing few business owners think saving water is as important as saving energy. In fact, only 10
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HP has a new spin on the classic Gordon Gekko line: “Green is good.” The technology company said this week that its three-year IT transformation has not only saved it more than $1 billion a year since 2005 but has significantly boosted efficiency while lowering energy consumption. While the transformation’
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Chucking rubbish into a body of water has long been a favourite pastime of Britain’s adolescents. Anthropologists haven’t exactly been able to nail why teens are so fond of hurling trolleys, tyres and Coke cans into rivers, canals or the sea, but have hypothesised that it’s because