In the satellite images, they didn't appear green.
WHEN it comes to the environment, big American companies like to appear green.
Nor does the fuel appear green when the side effects are taken into account, some of which are potentially lethal.
Chlorophylls absorb red and blue wavelengths much more strongly than they absorb green wavelengths, which is why chlorophyll-bearing plants appear green.
Over at Ford, the seats and doors of its electric Focus (like other versions of the car) do not appear "green," although reused materials are incorporated.
Occasionally seen in icebergs that calve from the ice shelves, marine ice can appear green due to organic matter in the ice.
Dr. Tomasko said previous observations indicated that the atmosphere would appear green at higher altitudes and then turn orange closer to the surface.
Forests appear green, although at the highest elevations some forests have a brown tint as they are just beginning to green up at in mid-spring.
By providing companies with "easy ways to appear green without making significant changes," she continued, such partnerships are "slowing down the corporate awakening to environmental and social responsibilities".
And governments won't look very hard wanting to appear green, they have strong incentives to turn their eyes away from carbon credit malfeasance.
In 2002, however, they proved for the first time that a pigment — chlorophyll, the molecule that makes plants and certain algae appear green to our eyes — could serve as a biosignature.
