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SHANGHAI, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile Asia Expo -- The GSMA today unveiled an update to its 2009 landmark report "Mobile's Green Manifesto" which outlines the positive impact of operator initiatives in the areas of energy and carbon management. Analysis of 34 mobile networks worldwide(1) shows that, despite considerable growth in mobile connections and traffic, total network energy consumption increased only slightly from 2009 to 2010. The analysis also shows that the total...

Reflecting Clear Biases and Cherry Picking of Information, Fracking Study Is "Industry Garbage In, Industry Garbage Out" That Does Not Hold Up to Close Review ITHACA, N.Y., June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nonprofit Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE) today issued the following joint statement by Profs. Anthony Ingraffea and Robert Howarth, and research technician Renee Santoro of Cornell University: "We have analyzed the widely publicized...

CHICAGO, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent scientific study confirms that Daniels Sharpsmart reusable sharp containers (RSC) help hospitals reduce their carbon footprint by reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Most recently, Daniels Sharpsmart containers have helped the 850-bed Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) obtain an 84 percent reduction in their carbon footprint for sharps waste. The sustainability paper by Terry Grimmond of Grimmond and Associates and...

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- What: A press conference at which UNESCO will announce its involvement with Code REDD, an emergency action campaign...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com New evidence points to a dual conspiracy of climate change factors and hunting activities by early man that to drove the woolly mammoth to extinction between 4,000 and 10,000 years ago. The gradual decline of the sub-Arctic giant was likely caused in part by global warming induced changes in habitat, according to a new report published by an American-led research team in Nature Communications this week. These changes included a decline in the mammoths' food...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com Cutting edge carbon capture technology is having quite the year so far as UK scientists said they have developed a "metal-organic framework" that works like a sponge, absorbing carbon dioxide from high pressure emissions. This latest breakthrough in clean energy technology, called NOTT-202, absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere by soaking in pressurized gasses and releasing these gases under lowered pressure while retaining the greenhouse gas, according to a...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com While many climate change studies focus on the physical and ecological processes that drive greenhouse gas emissions, a new study published this week focuses on the societal forces that could cause global warming. In a report published Sunday in Nature Climate Change, Michigan State University professor Tom Dietz and his colleague Eugene Rosa from Washington State University looked at the various social factors that have long been prime climate-change...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG) today announced it is participating in a project that will avoid approximately 30 million metric tons of CO2 emissions and generate carbon credits through the preservation of 70,000 hectares of native forest in the Amazon biome. The project, developed through a partnership between Bunge Environmental Markets and Florestal Santa Maria, is one of the first to generate tradable carbon credits on private land...

LONDON, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ahead of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, campaign ambassador Bianca Jagger, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Airbus launched today "Plant a Pledge" - a campaign to mobilise support for the largest restoration initiative in history. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120612/537755 ) The 150 million hectare target is known as the Bonn Challenge, after ministers and CEOs met last year to issue...

LONDON, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Africa offers world's biggest potential for forest and land restoration across over 715 million hectares Ahead of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, campaign ambassador Bianca Jagger, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Airbus launched today "Plant a Pledge" - a campaign to mobilise support for the largest restoration initiative in history. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120612/537755 )...