Environmental News

• New hope for Sumatra’s elephants and tigers
  27 August 2008

  The government of Indonesia today declared its commitment to enlarging the most suitable block of forest for Sumatran elephants, expanding the vital Tesso Nilo National Park on Sumatra island to 86,000... (31 words total)

• Adapting Water to a Changing Climate
  27 August 2008

  Withdrawals of water, construction of dams and other infrastructure, pollution, land-use shifts, invasive species, and habitat modification and
  destruction have altered and degraded many rivers, lakes and wetlands over the... (32 words total)

• Small Scale Wind Energy - Policy Insights and Practical Guidance
  27 August 2008

  Small-scale wind energy systems are receiving increasing interest in the UK as one of a number of microgeneration technologies with potential to reduce carbon emissions.

• Growing Old in a Changing Climate - SEI Report
  27 August 2008

  The Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York has recently published this report in collaboration with Help the Aged, which calls on Government and public authorities to take action... (42 words total)

• Limiting Climate Change to 2C - EC Consultation
  27 August 2008

  The European Commission has launched an online public consultation to better understand the detailed views of stakeholders on the different building blocks of the Bali Road Map that would enable... (60 words total)

• Asia's biggest solar thermal energy plant to be set up at Nagpur
  27 August 2008

  Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Vilas Muttemwar today said Asia's biggest
  solar thermal energy plant of 10 MW capacity would be set up at Nagpur, where a SEZ was... (48 words total)