LONDON (Reuters) - Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in response to climate change, research in the United States showed on Wednesday, which could have devastating knock-on effects for food chains and ecosystems.
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2012-05-02 12:19:06
In light of its interest and efforts to reduce its impact on the environment in recent years, Coca-Cola plans to install a new alternative energy system consisting of five natural gas hydrogen fuel cells at its production facility in American Canyon, ...
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2012-05-02 11:17:46
WARRENDALE, PA -- May 2, 2012 : SAE International hosted the second annual A World In Motion (AWIM) International Fuel Cell Competition on Thursday, April 26 , in Detroit. The competition focused on explaining scientific concepts to K-12 students in an easily approachable, hands-on environment.
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2012-05-02 11:15:40
LONDON, May 2 - Australia and New Zealand have missed a deadline to set post-2012 emission reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol, with both governments saying they will decide whether to continue to be legally bound to cut emissions of seven greenhouse gases later this year.
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2012-05-02 09:52:34
A pilot scheme helping schools to go solar is being rolled out nationally. You have two weeks to apply A little over a year ago I found myself clambering through a skylight on to the roof of Fox school, a primary nestled in a back street in London's Notting Hill. The headteacher, Paul Cotter, was taking me to see a recently installed solar system: an impressive array of blue-black photovoltaic
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2012-05-02 00:49:32
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Polar bears are capable of swimming vast distances, a potential survival skill needed in an Arctic environment where summer sea ice is vanishing, a study led by the U.S. Geological Survey showed on Tuesday.
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2012-05-01 21:35:58
Ball, scholar-in-residence at the Stanford center and former energy reporter and environment editor for the Wall Street Journal, writes in the current edition of Foreign Affairs that the world's renewable-energy push has been sloppy so far.
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2012-05-01 16:19:36
When pushed to choose between profit and survival, the oil giant chooses profit – irrespective of collective consequenceThey couldn't "make the numbers work". There's something so blithe – and enormously telling - about the excuse offered by the oil company Shell to explain why they were not investing in wind power in Britain
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2012-05-01 09:52:01
I follow Great Lakes Dredge and Dock (NASD:GLDD) because it?s involved in many industries which will gain from Peak Oil and Global Warming: Beach nourishment and levy building will gain from more flooding and sea level rise Harbor and dock work will gain as more freight shifts to more fuel-efficient??water based transport
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2012-05-01 08:59:57
Solar industry concerns over the effect of the cut appear to be supported by dramatic dip in installations since 1 AprilSolar panel installations have fallen by almost 90% in the weeks since the government halved cut the subsidy available, according to Department of Energy and Climate Change figures
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2012-05-01 06:43:45
But in both cases the mechanism is the feed-in tariff, which is this very innovative piece of legislation, which is basically rather than trying to penalize greenhouse gas emission it basically builds incentives into green energy in a sense offsetting ...
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2012-04-30 19:42:26
The results of this experiment are trailblazing not only because they offer yet another method in which to generate energy from solar power, but also because they suggest a new process for the creation of hydrogen fuel without harming the environment.
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2012-04-30 16:40:41
The study used satellite data to show that the building of huge windfarms in west Texas over the last decade has warmed the nights by up to 0.72 °C. "Wind power is going to be a part of the solution to the climate change, air pollution and energy ...
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2012-04-30 08:44:32
HONG Kong's secretary for the environment has heard from a Capital biofuel expert during an official visit to Scotland. Edward Yau toured the Biofuel Research Centre at Edinburgh Napier University as part of a European green technology trip ...
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2012-04-30 06:13:31