May 2, 2016 NYU faculty senate recommends ending fossil fuel investments New York University’s faculty senate voted Thursday afternoon to recommend that the university “divest” and strip its $3.5 billion endowment of investments of major fossil fuel stocks in order to make a statement about the dangers of global warming.
May 2, 2016 Universities under pressure to ‘divest’ from fossil fuels Environmental activists are pressuring universities around the country to “divest” and stop all investment in fossil fuels. Many are taking heed, and more than a dozen universities -- among them Stanford and Syracuse -- have already promised to stop all such investments. But around 50 others, such as Harvard, Yale, and the University of Colorado, have decided not to.
May 2, 2016 Happy Earth Day! 5 ways to get kids to help the planet Earth is a constant marvel, especially for children who enjoy learning about its wonders
May 2, 2016 How to celebrate Earth Day 2015 with NASA Today (April 22) is the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, and NASA has a series of activities planned to celebrate the beauty of our home planet.
May 2, 2016 For Earth Day, Levi Strauss & Co. wants consumers to pledge to wash less Did you know that about 3,800 liters of water are used over the course of the lifetime of a pair of jeans? What about this statistic – consumer care, like washing, contributes 37 percent of the roughly 74 pounds of carbon dioxide emitted during a pair of jeans’ use. The figures come from a recent Levi Strauss & Co. study on the impact that jeans have on the environment, an update on a similar 2007 report from the company. The goal was to shed light on the fairly large-scale impact that wearing a pair of jeans – something most people just take for granted – can have.
May 2, 2016 Aral Sea looks like a painting from space The Aral Sea is shrinking, leaving a dried-up white lakebed where there used to be blue water.
May 2, 2016 SunEdison touts renewable energy generator, aims to bring power to 20 million people by 2020 SunEdison unveiled its ambitious plan to bring power to 20 million people by 2020 at an event in New York this week, touting new renewable energy technology for remote areas.
May 2, 2016 Study: Global warming skeptics know more about climate science Are global warming skeptics simply ignorant about climate science? Not so, says a forthcoming paper in the journal Advances in Political Psychology by Yale professor Dan Kahan. He finds that skeptics score about the same (in fact slightly better) on climate science questions.
May 2, 2016 Golden mussel poses threat to Amazon River The world's mightiest waterway, the Amazon River, is threatened by the most diminutive of foes — a tiny mussel invading from China.
May 2, 2016 Solar Impulse 2 takes off from California, starts solar-powered trek across US Solar Impulse 2 has taken off from California on the tenth leg of its record-breaking solar-powered journey around the world.
