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As we are engulfed from all sides by suffocatingly one-sided coverage of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, three hugely important issues have been largely stuffed away from sight. The first of these is the matter of cost: the scarcely believable bill our politicians wish to land us with ...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
The British Met Office has released world-wide temperature data into the public domain to give evidence that the globe is warming. The British Met Office has published station temperature records for over 1,500 of the stations that make up the global land surface temperature record. The data shows ...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
China and US cooperation in promoting such vehicles is a concrete step against global warming. But how to measure claims in miles "per gallon"? As the two largest carbon polluters, China and the US have yet to agree on much before the international conference on global warming in Copenhagen next wee...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
The climate change talks in Copenhagen this month may be our last chance to agree to a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol--and perhaps to get authentic commitments from nations around the world to cutting greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming. Experts have declared the search for a ne...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Commonwealth leaders have thrown their full support behind the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen next month. At their summit in Trinidad and Tobago, all 53 member states pledged their commitment to seal a legally binding agreement, aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emiss...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
Written by Estrella Torres / ReporterSunday, 29 November 2009 21:45 With the Philippines experiencing the harshest impact of climate change after three devastating typhoons, the British envoy to Manila gave assurances that his government will push for a clear timetable to a legally binding agreemen...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press Writer Wed Nov 25 WASHINGTON – Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit. He wil...
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Posted by on in Fossil Fuels
The Associated Press A new report suggests that oil production will not peak for at least two more decades and will plateau for decades after that. Few topics can inflame oil watchers more than the debate over “peak oil” – that difficult-to-predict moment when the world’s oil production reaches its ...
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Posted by on in Animals
By Donald Liebenson-Special to the TribuneNovember 13, 2009 A sibling drama is playing out in the replicated rain forest treetops of Brookfield Zoo's Tropic World exhibit: Denda, a 7-year-old orangutan, is snacking on a clump of alfalfa, and his toddler sister, Kekasih, wants what he's having. But ...
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Posted by on in Clean Water
NRDC reports on the drinking water systems of 19 cities and finds that pollution, old pipes and outdated treatment threaten tap water quality. How's the Water? In many places there's a lot of work to be done: Tap water in many cities might pose a health risk to some residents Sometimes cities ...
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Posted by on in Animals
In Japan, fishermen round up and slaughter hundreds and even thousands of dolphins and other small whales each year. In the small fishing village of Taiji, entire schools of dolphins are driven into a hidden cove after a prolonged chase. Once trapped inside the cove, the fishermen kill the dolphins...
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Posted by on in Recycling
A brief piece that shows a comparison between recycling during World War II and today. War is generally defined as an armed conflict between two nations, implying some measurable geographic set of boundaries. The United States has indeed been in many such wars in the last century - from World War I...
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Posted by on in General Environment
Reserva Biológica Tirimbina (RBT) is located in Sarapiqui a scant 15 km from one of the most studied reserves in the world, La Selva Biological Station. This station claims more than 45 years of study and produces two scientific articles each week. From the proximity, one would expect not to find gr...
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Posted by on in Air Quality
By Jonathan Bardelline Las Vegas has far from a clean reputation, but in Forbes' list of America's Most Toxic Cities, Las Vegas is named the least toxic of 40 major metropolitan areas. Forbes ranked the cities based on the number of Superfund sites in the principal city, number of facilities that ...
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Posted by on in Transportation
It's an unseasonably cool day in August, and I'm screaming down a twisty, two-lane road nestled in the driver's seat of a silver 1966 Porsche 911. The Porsche's owner is riding shotgun, shirt collar popped, trying to look nonchalant as I bring the revs up and shift into third. The trees blur. "The...
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Posted by on in Clean Technology
By MICHAEL TOTTY It's a tall order: Over the next few decades, the world will need to wean itself from dependence on fossil fuels and drastically reduce greenhouse gases. Current technology will take us only so far; major breakthroughs are required. What might those breakthroughs be? Here's a look...
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Posted by on in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines
A NATION OF TRASH IN THE PACIFIC Scientists have recently discovered what they call a "plastic soup" of floating waste in the Pacific Ocean that is growing at an alarming rate, and currently covers an area twice the size of the continental United States. This massive, floating plastic garbage dump...
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Posted by on in Solar
Gujarat, a state of India, is quite eager to opt for alternative sources of energy. It started out as a small dream. The Gujarat government visualized only 500 MW of solar power generation by 2014. But this humble goal may now be increased to 3,000 MW. The Gujarat Government is undertaking a $10 bi...
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Posted by on in Biofuels
By Jeremy Jacquot Ubiquitous and easy to grow, algae has long been a promising biomass-to-fuel candidate in the eyes of researchers. Now algae is a burgeoning sector in biofuels with several high-profile staart-ups, including Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics, and the interest of big-time investors...
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Posted by on in Solar
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has announced the near completion of its DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Florida. This solar power plant will be producing electricity by the end of month. This project is ahead of its schedule. The plant has an impressive number of 90,0...
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