(Phys.org) —Insatiable demand for popular online applications on the go has created a sustainability time bomb for cloud services, according to Australian research published this week.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Apr 11, 2013 4.5 / 5 (12) 6 |

Amazon, Apple and Twitter were graded poorly Tuesday in a Greenpeace study of technology titans' use of clean energy to power the mushrooming Internet cloud, but Facebook, Google and Yahoo! won praise.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Apr 17, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0

Every year, a group of anti-whaling nonprofit organizations that includes Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd, and the World Wildlife Fund spend, by conservative estimates, some $25 million on a variety of activities intended to end ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 11, 2012 not rated yet 5 |

Dutch-Belgian energy market provider APX-Endex launched a "biomass exchange" Thursday specialising in trading wood pellets as a source of renewable energy, a venture it said was a world first.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Nov 03, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 2

Outdoor clothing from top manufacturers is frequently contaminated with chemicals that are harmful to health and the environment, Greenpeace warned Monday.

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 29, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Government radiation monitoring in areas near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is unreliable, Greenpeace charged on Tuesday, with heavily populated areas exposed to 13 times the legal limit.

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 23, 2012 not rated yet 0

Global environmental watchdog Greenpeace launched a new report Monday warning the European Union against authorising herbicide-tolerant genetically engineered (HTGE) crops, saying they would lead to herbicide-resistant ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Oct 22, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Honey is the purest of foods which under European Commission proposals Friday should remain so once rules about pollen from genetically modified plants found in it are straightened out.

Biology - Other

Sep 21, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 5

The European Commission presents proposals to limit automobile carbon emissions Wednesday that environmentalists complain will offer favoured treatment to manufacturers of big German cars.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Jul 10, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 1

Scientists working with Greenpeace will undertake an expedition to the Arctic that will produce the first 3D models of the Arctic sea ice, the group said on Friday.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jul 01, 2012 1 / 5 (1) 3

Apple says its $1 billion data center in Maiden, N.C., will include a second large solar farm to help power the site entirely by renewable energy by the end of this year.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

May 21, 2012 1.6 / 5 (7) 0

(AP) -- Swedish police on Thursday arrested six Greenpeace activists after they boarded an icebreaker off Sweden's southeast coast, forcing authorities to tow the ship it back into land.

Space & Earth - Environment

May 03, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

A Greenpeace activist on Wednesday flew inside the grounds of a French nuclear power plant using a motorised paraglider, police and the organisation said.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

May 02, 2012 1 / 5 (1) 27

Critically-endangered orangutans in a protected area of Indonesia will be wiped out by the end of the year if land clearing is not stopped, a coalition of environmental groups warned Wednesday.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 28, 2012 not rated yet 0

Silicon Valley giants at the prestigious TED innovation conference here on Tuesday were warned that the worship of technology will ruin the world before it saves it.

Technology - Other

Feb 29, 2012 not rated yet 3