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YouTube - 'Revolutionary' CO2 maps zoom in on greenhouse gas sources
A new, high resolution, interactive map of United States carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has found that the emissions aren't all where we thought.
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Le Monde.fr : Assainir l'atmosphère grâce aux gaz du kangourou - Environnement, Sciences
En lieu et place des bactéries méthanogènes sont ainsi mises en oeuvre des bactéries acétogènes, productrices d'acétate. Ce qui assure également à cet herbivore une digestion plus sereine et énergétiquement plus rentable
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Climate target is not radical enough - study | Environment | The Guardian
Hansen says the EU target of 550 parts per million of C02 - the most stringent in the world - should be slashed to 350ppm. He argues the cut is needed if "humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed
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Green Car Congress: Head of ChangAn Says China Needs to Support Hybrids
The ratio of small vehicles (those with 1.3-liter engines or smaller) declined to 26.1% of all passenger cars in 2007 from 31.8% the previous year
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Green Car Congress: Devil Is In The Details: How Realistic Are The IPCCs Reference Emissions Scenarios?
the projected emissions of energy-related CO2 in 2030 are 40-110% higher than in 2000
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Fuel made from coal ignites green row | Environment | The Guardian
If the oil price gets high enough then you can turn a Persian rug into diesel, but that doesn't make it a good idea," he said. "I can't imagine a more damaging fuel for the climate.
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'No Sun link' to climate change
During one of the Sun's 11-year cycles, there was a weak correlation between cosmic ray intensity and cloud cover (which could at the very most explain only a quarter of the changes in cloudiness). And for the following cycle, no correlation was found
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NYMEX - Green Exchange
The Green Exchange is a partnership between NYMEX and Evolution Markets, the world's leading environmental brokerage, and will include major energy and environmental commodity trading houses Morgan Stanley and Tudor Investment Corp.
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London Investors "Buy" Guyana Rainforest, Will Sell its Services : TreeHugger
While carbon trading is essentially about buying and selling the right to pollute, paying for Ecosystem Services creates a positive incentive to conserve the world’s natural resources. Putting a price on these services is like taking out an insurance po
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«Lafarge a une obligation en matière environnementale»
Notre mètre cube de béton nouveau est plus cher mais le client en aura besoin d’une quantité moindre et le produit fera moins de mal à l’environnement. C’est là où on voit que progrès économique et protection de l’environnement sont vraime
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Green Car Congress: Peterbilt to Begin Full Production of Electric Hybrid and Hydraulic Hybrid Trucks
Peterbilt Model 330 and Model 335 Hybrid Electric vehicles feature the Eaton Hybrid Power system and provide up to a 30% improvement in fuel economy in an urban driving cycle. The Model 335 Hybrid Electric utilizes these same components to provide up to a
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The Ultimate Race: Peak Oil vs. Global Warming : TreeHugger
it's a bit of apples and oranges here -- it's tough to argue against the pure volatility of an oil-thirsty world when the well starts to run dry. Global warming wins the marathon, but peak oil the sprint
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Green Car Congress: New Analysis Concludes China CO2 Emissions Growing More Rapidly Than Expected
a 2.5 to 5% annual increase in CO2 emissions, the largest contributor to atmospheric greenhouse gases, between 2004 and 2010. The new UC analysis puts that annual growth rate for China to at least 11% for the same time period.
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For carbon emissions, some businesses aim for less than zero - International Herald Tribune
the important part may be the leftovers, a charcoal-like material that retains most of the carbon. It also has useful minerals, like potassium and phosphorus. Plowed back into a field, it helps the soil retain water and nutrients, which also enhances plan
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Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment (EIO-LCA)
This site allows you to estimate the overall environmental impacts from producing a certain dollar amount of any of 500 commodities or services in the United States. (carnegie mellon institute of green design)
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Modeling the Accumulation and Depletion of Smog in Los Angeles
Traffic increases the emissions of nitrogen oxides and VOCs in the early morning.
Later in the morning the NOx and VOCs start reacting to form nitrogen dioxide.
Intense sunlight breaks nitrogen dioxide molecules, increasing ozone concentration. Some of th
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Government figures hide scale of CO2 emissions, says report | Environment | The Guardian
Britain emitted 656m tonnes of CO2 in 2005, and claims an improvement on 1990 figures. However, the lesser-known but more accurate data in the government's national environmental accounts show emissions to be in the region of 733m tonnes in 2005, NAO says
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EcoFuss » Solar Water Heating Could Decrease Greenhouse Gas Emissions Signifiantly
The greenhouse gas emission solar water heating would reduce is equivalent to the emissions of 4 million cars,
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Magical Pixie Dust (hyperbranched aminosilica) Eats Up CO2 | EcoGeek
this is only the first step in pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere. A system has to be developed to get the flue gas to interact with the compound at relatively low temperatures inexpensively. And then the aminosilica has to transport and release it's CO2 s
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Green Car Congress: Report: Climate Change a Potential Threat Multiplier for European Security and Foreign Policy
Investment in mitigation to avoid such scenarios, as well as ways to adapt to the unavoidable, should go hand in hand with addressing the international security threats created by climate change; both should be viewed as part of preventive security policy
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