Green Options

With other countries failing to show any commitment to either contribute to the climate fund or reduce carbon emissions, the European Union has backed out from its plan to release billions for the climate fund.

Italian car company Tazzari has announced plans to launch its Tazzari Zero all-electric vehicle in the North American market next year.

The all-electric 2 door super mini (video) weighs in at a tiny 542 kilograms (around 1,200 lbs), leaving it capable of achieving 100 km/h (62 mph) in a nimble 5 seconds, with a top speed of 80 km/h (50mph) (more pics after the jump).

United States is looking to levy tax on imported goods while China is holding the high demand from developed nations responsible for a major portion of its carbon emissions.

Amid increasing calls for a global carbon tax to check carbon emissions, a new bill proposing a nation-wide carbon tax has been introduced in the US Congress.

Obama administration’s decision to create a climate registry would put pressure on the advanced developing countries to take some serious steps in order to control their carbon emissions.

Two Harvard researchers say they have successfully constructed a ribosome.

Harvard Medical School Professor Greg Church and Research Fellow Michael Jewett extracted ribosomes from E. coli bacteria, processed them, and then made new ones from the molecules.

The increased investments must reach the start up companies producing second and third generation biofuels. While investing billions in the sector it must be ensured that the food crops are not diverted to meet the extra 5 percent demand.

The United States needs to act proactively and pass a climate policy as soon as possible in order to pressurize developing nations to agree to mandatory emission cuts under the next international climate treaty.

NASA and Cisco, Inc. have joined together to implement and manage an online global environmental monitoring platform, which is named Planetary Skin.

The platform will be used for data collection and analysis utilizing sensors in space, the air, the oceans, and on land.

Energy efficiency can reduce considerable amounts of carbon emissions while helping achieve energy independence without the worries of a long-term economic slowdown.

A sea otter sighting has been confirmed in Oregon near Depoe Bay. There have been no confirmed sightings of the creature in Oregon waters since 1906. Morris Grover spotted the animal but did not want to tell anyone until he sent photos of it to biologists and they told him what he photographed. They identified it as a sea otter. (Many river otters there have been mistaken for sea otters).