MARINE Harvest Scotland, the country's largest salmon farm company, has announced it has committed itself to a new international scheme aiming to reducing the environmental and social impacts associated with the industry.

IREC and the Energy Coordinating Agency of Philadelphia, Inc. (ECA) announce today that three instructors at ECA are the first energy efficiency instructors to be awarded IREC certifications. Dawn Moody and Paul Ricker were awarded Affiliated Master Trainer Certification and David Dennis was...

Klif forventer at Statoil i konsekvensutredningen for utbygging av Johan Castberg-feltet i Barentshavet (tidligere Skrugard) vurderer miljøvirkninger av alternative utbyggingsløsninger. Vi mener det er uheldig at beslutning om utbyggingsløsning tilsynelatende er tatt før konsekvensutredningen foreligger og er behandlet.

På verdens miljøverndag onsdag 5. juni tar vi temperaturen på miljøets tilstand, i Norge og globalt. Miljøvernforvaltningen inviterer til diskusjon om grønne veivalg på Litteraturhuset i Oslo klokka 13-15.

The protection afforded to blue whales in New Zealand waters may need to be increased, now a study has found they may be more regular visitors to the South Taranaki Bight than previously thought.

Otago commercial fishermen have reacted with anger to a proposal to extend a ban on set-net fishing around the Otago Peninsula to help preserve yellow-eyed penguin colonies.

(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) How will rainfall patterns across the tropical Indian and Pacific regions change in a future warming world? Climate models generally suggest that the tropics as a whole will get wetter, but the models don't always agree on where rainfall patterns will shift in particular regions within the tropics.

The Indo-Pacific warm pool was much dryer during the last ice age than today, because lower sea level exposed the Sunda Shelf. The large landmass, in place of the warm ocean, altered the atmospheric circulation, shifting convection further west into the Indian Ocean.

The first SIDS DOCK Pacific Regional Meeting reviewed the current work of the first phase of the SIDS DOCK Support Programme and discussed its next phase. SIDS DOCK is an initiative developed by small island developing States (SIDS) for SIDS to promote renewable energy, energy efficiency, and contribute towards sustainable development with support from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank.

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