Friday Favorites: Caves reveal climate, Amazon sighting, Eco-friendly tourism, Soaring solar and more…

Researchers look to caves in Borneo to understand the earth’s climate history

Cave Carries Climate Change Clues

Climate change may be happening above ground, but spires of rock deep inside caves carry track records of clues about what our planet’s climate used to be like. Researchers trudged deep inside Borneo caves to analyze stalagmites, or pillars of rock that can form on the ground in wet caves. Using vertical cross-sections of the stony formations, the researchers produced a high-resolution and continuous record of the climate in the Borneo rainforest region over the past 25,000 years…read more at Live Science

Sighting of Amazon group bolsters environmentalist case

At first they are just a blur, tiny figures by a river in Peru’s Amazon jungle. Then the plane descends, the camera focuses, and you see them: 21 people outside palm huts, the apparent remnants of an uncontacted tribe. They gaze up at the intruder, itself a blur of noise and metal, and a woman carrying arrows gestures aggressively… read more at The Guardian

Tourist industry pledges climate-friendly future

Tourism chiefs and UN agencies on Wednesday pledged to “green” the travel trade while highlighting the 880 billion dollar industry’s own vulnerability to global warming. In a four page declaration, UN tourism, environment and weather agencies, national tourism officials and executives from 100 countries agreed the industry must “rapidly respond to climate change” and take “concrete measures” to curb greenhouse gas emissions…read more at AFP

Is 2007 the Year of the Solar Stock

2007 is shaping up to be an excellent year for the solar power sector. In the first nine months through last Friday, Sept. 28, six solar stocks on U.S. exchanges have more than doubled their value…read more at Earth2Tech

Fuel-cell cars to get test drive

A leading car manufacturer is to give drivers the chance to try out hydrogen-powered vehicles. As part of “Project Driveway”, General Motors (GM) will put more than 100 fuel-cell vehicles in the hands of customers before the end of the year. The cars will be based on the Chevrolet Equinox SUV…read more at BBC

Going Beyond Formaldehyde Binders in Manufactured Wood Products

Manufactured wood products-including plywood, oriented-strand board (OSB), laminated-strand lumber, particleboard, and medium-density fiberboard (MDF)- have the environmental advantage of being made from small-diameter or other low-quality trees or waste from wood-processing operations, conserving higher-quality timber…read more at ENN