Statement by Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in Response to the Report by the
InterAcademy Council (IAC) on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
UNEP welcomes the independent review of the IAC, requested by the United Nations Secretary General and the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [...]

Says Natural Disaster Underlines the Serious Environmental Change Challenge Emerging Across the Planet
Nairobi – Achim Steiner, the head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), has donated a US$70,000 international leadership prize to relief efforts in Pakistan following the devastating and on-going floods, it was announced today.
Mr. Steiner, who called on others to also assist the [...]

Toyota City, Japan, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces the Fifth Toyota Environmental Action Plan, which sets out specific actions to be implemented from FY2011 through FY2015.
The plan is based on TMC’s environmental principles of contributing to the growth of a sustainable society and Earth through manufacturing that is in harmony with the environment, making cars [...]

WASHINGTON — NASA personnel are among a group of international researchers who are in the Canadian Arctic assessing concepts for future planetary exploration as part of the Haughton-Mars Project, or HMP-2010.
Scientists are using the arid, rocky environment of the Haughton Crater on Devon Island, Canada to simulate conditions that might be encountered by explorers on [...]

WASHINGTON — The number of languages used on the International Space Station has recently increased. In addition to those spoken in the 15 countries that have had representatives aboard the space station, American Sign Language, or ASL, is now included. NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson has sent a message in ASL from the station to [...]

WASHINGTON — A camera aboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Researchers and the public can access the map via several websites and explore and survey the entire surface of the Red Planet.
The map was constructed using nearly 21,000 images from the Thermal Emission Imaging System, or [...]

HOUSTON — NASA is offering undergraduate students an opportunity to test an experiment in weightless science as part of the agency’s Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. Proposals are due by Oct. 27.
The program, managed by the Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston, provides aspiring explorers a chance to propose, design and fabricate a reduced gravity [...]

WASHINGTON — NASA selected Orbital Sciences Corp.’s, Technical Services Division in Greenbelt, Md., for the agency’s Sounding Rockets Operations contract. The total value of this indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity cost-plus incentive fee contract is $310 million. The period of performance is five years.
Orbital Sciences will coordinate and implement NASA’s overall Sounding Rockets Program and provide services and [...]

HOUSTON — NASA managers will discuss an upcoming spacewalk at the International Space Station during a news briefing at 1 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, Aug. 3.
Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson are scheduled to perform a 6.5-hour spacewalk on Aug. 5. The two NASA astronauts will outfit the Russian Zarya module [...]

Dubai has always been in the news for producing a large amount of waste. Various measures are undertaken to reduce the amount of waste that is generated. Along with residents of Dubai, there are many industries, which are taking active steps towards controlling the quantity of garbage. One such company is Lucky Recycling. Lucky [...]