Environmental stories tagged with: O2

There are some great deals on offer these days for cars and vans of all sizes, but don't let the initial cost of the vehicle detract from running costs and the environment.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has ended proposals for the CO2 Charge, which would have charged owners of large cars £25 a day to drive in the Central London Congestion Charge zone. The High Court has now confirmed that the paper work necessary to end the proposal has been completed and the CO2 charge is no more.

Great ideas and passion were green and sustainable at last weekend's London Aware event in London's Barbican centre.

New research shows increased temperatures and carbon dioxide levels are a threat to Australia's national icon, the koala.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, presented his pre-budget report to the House of Commons yesterday, what was in it for the environment?

While many are looking to the sky for answers to our energy needs and climate change, others are looking to the ground, but not for natural gas, coal or oil.

A new national study commissioned by the US Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) shows that using electronics to telecommute saves the equivalent of 9 to 14 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year - the same amount of energy used by roughly 1 million US households every year.

Seventy-one percent of UK workers commute by car, but, contrary to popular belief, those in the North-West of England are subject to the most hazardous commute, according to a new report released by the Royal Automobile Club Foundation.

£20m of new Government funding will support UK research to develop new low carbon vehicles that could be on the road within 5 to 7 years.

In a commentary in the September 25, 2007, issue of the Geophysical Research Letters, a large team of scientists state that human-induced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will alter ocean chemistry to the point where it will violate US Environmental Protection Agency Quality Criteria [1976] by mid-century if emissions are not dramatically curtailed now.

Approximately one third of the total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the world come from energy production. CO2 free gas-powered plants are based on carbon dioxide being removed from the waste gases and deposited in the ground.