The Arctic holds one fifth of the world’s undiscovered, recoverable oil and natural gas, the United States Geological Survey estimates.
The cleanliness of natural gas is largely based on its lower carbon dioxide emissions when burned.
In the wake of nuclear power disaster in Japan, Germany has decided an end to nuclear power utilization with its complete phase-out by 2022.
Shale gas extraction could come up emitting greenhouse gases to the atmosphere in two scenarios, one is when gas is burned and it produces carbon dioxide, second is when methane gas leaks out while the well is being tapped.
The oil spill at the Gulf of Mexico is killing marine food web where other marine creatures are dependent for food.
The common trend that has been going on is that companies build their large computing centers, referred as server farms in large urban areas or its outskirts.
In a February 2007 report by the world’s foremost authority on climate change – the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In their first of six reports, the IPCC has this to say ” fossil fuel pollution would raise temperature this century, worsen floods, droughts, hurricanes, melt polar ice and damage the climate system for a thousand years.”