The battle against global warming has received a transformational boost after China, the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, proposed to set a cap on its greenhouse gas emissions for the first time.
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2013-05-21 12:35:26
Concerns continue to grow about the effects of climate change on fire. Wildfires are expected to increase 50 percent across the United States under a changing climate, over 100 percent in areas of the West by 2050 as projected by some studies. Of equal concern to scientists and policymakers alike are the atmospheric effects of wildfire emissions on climate
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2013-05-21 14:15:15
However, solar, wind power and biofuels have all been economic disasters, and they have not reduced carbon-dioxide emissions. Biofuel production has dramatically increased greenhouse-gas emissions. The price of food continues to climb as we turn corn ...
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2013-05-20 06:35:58
Electricity production at Catalyst Paper Corporation’s Powell River division increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the operation, according to the company’s 2012 sustainability report.
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2013-05-20 02:31:03
Greenhouse gas emissions over a decade-long period were analyzed by the U.S. Energy Administration, which shows a state-by-state inventory. The majority of states, including Utah, had a decrease in tons emitted from 2000 to 2010.
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2013-05-19 17:02:23
(Reuters) - Hope is fading for a global deal to regulate the airline industry's greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a fall deadline, even though failure could push the industry back to the brink of a trade war over the European Union's emissions trading system.
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2013-05-19 09:42:48
To offset its emissions, the company has invested more than $1 billion in renewable-energy projects, installed solar panels at its Mountain View headquarters, and purchased more than 260 MW of wind power to help power its data centers. Mountain View HQ.
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2013-05-18 13:46:08
This month Planet Earth reached a grim milestone - carbon dioxide emissions reached more than 400 parts per million average for a day, which is 50 ppm more than what scientists regard as the safe level for keeping the earth's temperature rise to 2 degrees ...
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2013-05-17 15:20:36
A $19-million biofuel plant in northern Alberta has secured funding that will enable the plant to use carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from oil sands to turn algae into fuel, fertilizer and livestock feed. The federal government, energy giant Canadian Natural ...
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2013-05-17 11:47:14
Ethanol not only reduces greenhouse gas emissions compared to petroleum but continues to steadily improve upon the levels at which it does so, according to a report released by Dr. Steffen Mueller of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Energy Resources ...
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2013-05-16 23:17:30
Corn-based ethanol may offer significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions than previously believed. This realization comes following the release of a recent study performed by U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers showing that corn grown using ...
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2013-05-16 16:13:52
A report released by Dr. Steffen Mueller of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Energy Resources Center shows that ethanol not only reduces greenhouse gas emissions compared to petroleum - but is continuing to steadily improve upon the levels at which it ...
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2013-05-16 15:11:14
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Aker Solutions has won a contract to make the world's first tests for capturing emissions of carbon dioxide from cement factories as part of efforts to slow climate change, the company said on Thursday.
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2013-05-16 10:57:53
Some 25,000 gallons of geothermal brine from a wastewater-treatment pond at CalEnergy's Calipatria facility were accidentally released May 8. There were no injuries, and no hazardous emissions were released, said officials with MidAmerican Energy ...
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2013-05-16 01:51:11
