Environmental stories tagged with: RC

If you're a teacher you are probably always on the look out for teaching resources. General Motors (an unlikely source we know) has created an education website that offers teachers and students resources and activities that highlight energy, environment and sustainability topics.

The World Development Movement has criticised a UK government plan to put almost £400 million of 'green' aid designed to assist developing countries low carbon development into a World Bank fund that will subsidise new dirty coal power plants.

A new study published in the journal 'Nature' this week reveals, for the first time, that temperature changes over Greenland and in North Atlantic ocean circulation played a central role in abrupt climate change during the last Ice Age.

Millions of homes in rural areas of Far Eastern countries are heated by charcoal burned on small, portable grills. Scientists in Japan are now reporting development of an improved "biomass charcoal combustion heater" that they say could open a new era in sustainable and ultra-high efficiency home heating.