July 2008
Food firms pledge to cut mileage
Companies behind some of the biggest brands on UK supermarket shelves have pledged to slash the environmental impact of transporting their goods.
About 40 food and drink companies have signed up to the Food and Drink Federation's (FDF) Environmental Checklist and Clause for Greener Food Transport.
August 2007
Big Brother's ac provider sees operating profit soar by 44%
The Vp group, owners of Climate Hire, report its operating profit has risen dramatically by 44% to 16.5m for the quarter ended March 31 2007.
The £16.5m figure is up from £11.5m reported for 2006.
March 2007
US officials 'edited out climate message'
A white house official edited evidence for the greenhouse effect out of government documents on hundreds of occasions, according to documents released by the US House of Representatives committee on Monday.
World's giant rivers running dry - report
The Nile, Danube, and Rio Grande are among ten major rivers that are "dying fast" as pollution, dams and climate change take their toll, the WWF has warned. Five of the ten worst affected rivers are predictably in Asia, but even Europe's Danube is in a dire state...
January 2007
Edie quizzes
Some really quite tough on-line quizzes about Environment & Business, Pollution Monitoring & Control, Contaminated Land & Construction, Water & Wastewater, Waste & Recycling and Climate Change & Energy.
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