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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
In The Cove, a team of activists and filmmakers infiltrate a heavily-guarded cove in Taiji, Japan. In this remote village they witness and document activities deliberately being hidden from the public: More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered each year and their meat, conta...
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Posted by on in Sustainable Development
HONOLULU — The federal government has turned to a 130-year-old Hawaii sugar grower for help in powering the Navy and weaning the nation off a heavy reliance on fossil fuels. It will spend at least $10 million over the next five years to fund research and development at Maui cane fields for crops ca...
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Posted by on in Biofuels
Even as last of BP oil spilled on the Gulf Coast dissipates, interest in Florida's biofuel industrypiqued by the spill may linger, and even grow. For the moment certainly, biofuels such as ethanol and algae-derived diesel are gaining traction in the minds of the public and energy producers. Coul...
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Posted by on in General Environment
By Teryn Norris & Daniel Goldfarb This article originally appeared at the National Journal Energy Expert Blog as part of a special series called “Can The U.S. Keep Up In Clean Energy Race?“ U.S. economic leadership is at a crossroads. Recent outlooks suggest we may experience long-term stagnat...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
Will 2010 be remembered as the year when nature struck back? We’ve witnessed the devastating Earthquake in Haiti, the toxic oil gusher in the Gulf, and now, historic floods in Pakistan that have killed over 1,000 people and displaced millions more. And those are just the international headlines. Di...
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Posted by on in Peace
  In recent decades debates about the relationship between the environment and peace have focused on how environmental problems like resource scarcity and climate change are likely to create or exacerbate conflict. The emerging discussion that links rising temperatures caused by climate change...
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Posted by on in Environmental Heroes
About 2 years ago, Diwen met Grant and Carol Barbeito, Earth Protect Vice President and President at a Conference in New Zealand. Diwen is Chinese by birth and had just completed a management degree from University of Waikato. Her interest in helping people and the environment along with her enthusi...
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Posted by on in General Environment
The Conference is being held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Denver on October 7 to the 9th and for the 2nd time Earth Protect will present at this Conference. WWW.GLOBALCOMMERCEFORUM.ORGThe International Conference on Energy, Logistics and the EnvironmentTheme: Achieving Sustainability through Collabor...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Wildlife experts in the United States have announced an ambitious plan to rescue hundreds of turtle nests and eggs from the potential impacts of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Using a strategy never tested before on such a massive scale, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will coordinate the ...
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Posted by on in Green Design
  The debate over whether utilities want to use public networks, like cell phone company infrastructure, or build out their own private networks for their smart grid deployments, rages on. On one hand smaller utilities don’t generally want to have the responsibilities — and expenses — of an IT...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
Scientists with the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) have released a resolution opposing the current development plan for a road and bridge crossing Balikpapan Bay in the Indonesian state of Kalimantan. The resolution states that the plan threatens not only the fragile ecosys...
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Posted by on in Transportation
Plug-free charging — it’s been the holy grail for cell phone, laptop and gadget makers for years. And now it’s fodder for the plug-in vehicle crew. On Tuesday at the Plug-In 2010 conference in San Jose, Calif., a company called Evatran unveiled its “Plugless Power” electric vehicle charger, which wi...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Since BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded into one of the worst man-made ecological disasters in history, one big question has remained unanswered: Just how big of a mess is it? While BP asserts there's no way to know, marine experts say that if the oil giant would but release more video from its su...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Since BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded into one of the worst man-made ecological disasters in history, one big question has remained unanswered: Just how big of a mess is it? While BP asserts there's no way to know, marine experts say that if the oil giant would but release more video from its su...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
Sri Lanka's central highlands and a protected marine area in Hawaii, the only habitats of several endangered plant and animal species, have been added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites, the U.N. body said on Saturday. Sri Lanka's central highlands were deemed of prime importance because of t...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
  We aren't telling you to not go swimming, but maybe you need to know that this is not your parents beach anymore. "We found that when swimming in sub-tropical beach areas with no known pollution or contamination from sewage or runoff, you still have a chance of being exposed to the kind of ...
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Posted by on in Fishing
In response to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the federal government closed off vast areas of the ocean to fishing operations. Much of the area was closed off as a precaution, even if it was minimally touched by the spreading oil, to avoid a public health disaster from contaminate...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
A century of phytoplankton decline suggests that ocean ecosystems are in peril. Marine phytoplankton — the vast range of tiny algae species accounting for roughly half of Earth's total photosynthetic biomass — have declined substantially in the world's oceans over the past century, researchers repo...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
UNESCO says strong action by the Ecuador government has resulted in these amazing islands off their coast being taken off the endangered UNESCO list. The islands were threatened by overuse. This is the island chain that is home to unique animal species that inspired Darwin's ideas on evolution. I ha...
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Posted by on in Human Health
  Public may be more likely to accept responsibility for climate change and support mitigation action if they see it as a threat to human health, suggests research If the human health impacts of climate change were explained in more detail to people they might be more willing to accept toughe...
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