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Climate change is helped along by suburban driving culture. We need to embrace cities -- and walking  Excerpted from "Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time"In 2001, Scott Bernstein, at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in inner-city Chicago, produced a set of map...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
By Darrell DelamaideWASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — An absolute monarchy can find it easier to implement enlightened policy than a democracy in hock to vested interests, so it was only mildly surprising when a Saudi Arabian prince said the world’s largest oil producer intends to rely 100% on renewable en...
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Posted by on in Air Quality
"There is work to be done still on air quality," EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson says. "The best result would be to find that all of our concerns were overblown, but we're not finding this in every case." Most of the air monitoring completed so far has not found dangerous levels of pollution, the EP...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
  Australia's Great Barrier Reef is a glittering gem — the world's largest coral reef ecosystem — chock-full of diverse marine life. But new research shows it is also in steep decline, with half of the reef vanishing in the past 27 years. Katharina Fabricius, a coral reef ecologist at the Aus...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
  CORAL transplanting is the only answer to the decline of corals in our reefs, says Aqua Trek Mana dive instructor Asami Dantsuka. She said coral numbers had declined tremendously in the past five years, adding that the destruction of coral reefs was a major concern of ecologists worldwi...
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Posted by on in Food
  Voters in California will decide on a proposal next month that would require the labelling of most foods made with genetically modified ingredients. Proposition 37 is supported by the organic industry but many major food suppliers oppose it saying it will drive up prices.   Around ...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
Without fast action, accelerating climate change impacts will cause more than 100 million deaths and knock off more than 3 percent of GDP (gross domestic product) by 2030, according to a report released today by the humanitarian organization DARA. The report, commissioned by 20 governments in the C...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
Glen Martin Author, 'Game Changer: Animal Rights and the Fate of Africa's Wildlife' The holocaust of the African rhinoceros is accelerating, with the very real possibility that both the continent's species -- white and black rhinos -- could be extinct outside zoos in a matter of years. At the begi...
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Posted by on in Wind
If the world shifts to clean energy, wind-generated electricity will play a big role—and there is more than enough wind for that, according to new research. Researchers developed the most sophisticated weather model available to show that not only is there plenty of wind over land and near to shore ...
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Posted by on in Animals
Does a large population of sea otters reverse one of the principal causes of climate change? New research from the UC Santa Cruz is suggesting that a population boom of sea otters would go a long way to reduce sea urchin numbers, and therefore allow kelp forests to become very large."The spreading k...
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Posted by on in Clean Technology
Last week, the New York Times reported on an exciting new energy project that is scheduled to begin testing off the coast of Oregon in early October. A company called Ocean Power Technologies is going to lower a 260-ton generator into the Pacific ocean, just 2.5 miles from the shore, in order to cap...
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Posted by on in Environmental Heroes
French explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau's devotion to ocean preservation has inspired generations of scientists, conservationists and nature enthusiasts.  "To live on the land we must learn from the sea," wrote John Denver in a 1975 musical tribute to Cousteau and his iconic researc...
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Posted by on in Animals
Central Florida beaches are reporting record numbers of loggerhead sea turtle nests, reversing a recent decline. But hotter summers pose a long-term danger to the threatened species.By Ludmilla Lelis Canaveral National Seashore and neighboring beaches in central Florida are reporting record numbers...
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Posted by on in Animals
by Johnny Kelly A dead great white shark and 39 dolphins were founded stranded on the Massachusetts coast over the weekend. WCVB reported a fisherman discovered a 13-foot, 1,500 pound great white shark carcass on South Shore Beach in Westport, less than a half-mile from public beaches in Little Co...
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Posted by on in Animals
    Five pilot whales are expected to survive after a 22-member whale pod stranded itself at Avalon Beach State Park on Florida's eastern coast this weekend. The sudden, unexplained stranding brought an army of volunteers who tried to keep the whales hydrated and upright Saturday....
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Posted by on in Agriculture
by Kristina Smith Horn When Jerry Whipple was a boy, his grandfather and father impressed upon him the value of the land they farmed and their responsibility to it. "They were very passionate about the soil," said Whipple, a third-generation farmer. "They said, 'Son, they don't make any more soil....
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
by Ben Cubby of brisbanetimes.com.au THIS year is likely to be seen by future historians as the ''beginning of the clean-energy era'', when the world turned decisively towards renewable energy, according to the chief of Australia's climate commission, Tim Flannery. Professor Flannery will try to s...
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Posted by on in Transportation
United Airlines today announced it further strengthened its commitment to sustainability and the environment by joining the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG), an industry working group whose objective is to accelerate the development and commercialization of aviation biofuels. “We are e...
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Posted by on in Agriculture
One of three bites of food you eat is reliant on honey bee pollination Last month, for the second time, the EPA refused to intervene to stop the use of the pesticide clothianidin, which scientists believe is at least partially to blame for the alarming rise in bee colony collapse The sudden bee die...
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Posted by on in Biofuels
By Donnabelle L. Gatdula Increasing production of bioethanol and biodiesel would have a great impact on global food security, according to a United Nation official. In a speech during the 3rd DuPont ASEAN Media Forum, Hiroyuki Konuma, assistant director for the Food & Agriculture Organization ...
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