Environmental stories tagged with: VERs

O2 has announced the launch of an energy efficient universal mobile phone charger - the O2 Universal Charger - which they claim cuts consumption by as much as 70 percent compared to standard mobile phone chargers.

A zero-emission hydrogen hybrid canal boat developed by engineers at the University of Birmingham was unveiled by Terry Tricker, Board Member of British Waterways, on Friday at The Mailbox canal side.

Britain's largest supermarket Tesco has teamed up with The University of Manchester in a £25 million investment that will bring together the world's leading experts to tackle climate change and help deliver a revolution in green consumption.

IBM and the Climate Systems Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town are launching a global computing effort to improve regional climate models in order to make better projections about what effects a changing climate will have in Africa.

Bogs and peatlands in northern Britain store over 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon but severe erosion and climate change are in danger of releasing this stored carbon into the atmosphere and contributing to global warming, according to research presented at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Friday.

Government priorities can drive local waste partnerships towards the achievement of central targets and efficiency savings rather than wider sustainable waste management objectives, a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council shows.

Millions of farm birds could be left without enough food and breeding sites next spring if plans to scrap Europe's agricultural land set-aside targets for next year go ahead, warn environmental groups.

North Wiltshire District Council is working to become more energy efficient and has introduced new computer virtualisation technology that will help reduce the effect of climate change and save money.

Hydrogen is a tease: it's one of the most plentiful gases around, when used to produce electricity or in a combustion engine it produces no greenhouse gases, but it is energy intensive and expensive to produce.

In the future drivers may only have to glance at the dashboard to see the pollution spewing out of their vehicle's exhausts.

IBM today announced their intention to consolidate about 3,900 computer servers onto about 30 System z mainframes, which they anticipate will consume 80% less energy than the current set-up.