Tesla launches the new Model X. Elon Musk: “It’s time to move to a new technology”
Shortly after the Volkswagen scandal, Elon Musk presents the latest electric SUV by Tesla Motors. It is the world’s safest.
Hawaii. From tropical haven to green paradise
Enough with coal, oil and natural gas. From now on Hawaii will only build plants that generate electricity using renewable sources and will cut all funding for fossil fuels. The aim: to be powered by 100% renewables by 2045. The announcement was made by state governor David Ige, electrical engineer, at the Asia Pacific Resilience
Shell abandons Arctic oil drilling
The oil giant has announced it will end exploration drilling in Alaska. A huge victory for environmental activists.
Vivienne Westwood’s struggle against fracking
Vivienne Westwood’s protest against the politicians that don’t care about environmental issues and climate change is not over.
Volkswagen has cheated us all: the environmental damage the fraud has caused
“If Volkswagen cheated in America, couldn’t it do so somewhere else?” wondered Luca Poma in his article published a couple of days ago on the scandal of the German car manufacturer. Just a few hours later, the confirmation. The scandal on VW cheating emissions tests involves 11 million cars marketed all over the world since
Threats are never isolated. Peabody Energy exploited Ebola to boost coal sales
Using the Ebola epidemic to promote coal is pretty far fetched. And yet, that’s exactly that Peabody Energy did. During a conference the American coal company, which has mining interests around the world, linked coal to Ebola in order to promote its own product as a response to Africa’s devastating health crisis. The PR exercise
Volkswagen cheated on US emission rules with 482,000 diesel cars
Volkswagen, one of the world’s largest car manufacturers, has falsified the emissions data of diesel cars sold in the United States, in order to elude tests of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. The accusation, confirmed by Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn, has been made by the EPA in reference to vehicles sold in the US between
Coal’s inexorable decline: a mine worth millions is sold for a dollar
The collapse in coal prices is real. The “Isaac Plains” coking coal mine in Australia, valued at 860 Australian dollars (about $631 million) three years ago has been sold for $1. According to Bloomberg, the Brazilian mining group Vale SA and Japan’s Sumitomo Corp. offloaded the “Isaac Plains” mine for just $1, selling it to
Ozone layer, a shield against UV rays
Ozone is a protective shield from UV rays. Damaging it means damaging the environment and our health.
How do CFCs destroy the ozone layer?
Here’s the explanation of how natural gases and chemical substances, including nitrogen and chlorine, cause the depletion of the ozone layer.