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Environment News tagged with emissions

Aircraft and Shipping Emissions on Course for Copenhagen
Environment  (tags: environment, climate treaty, emissions, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 50 days ago - panda.org
Negotiations to bring international aviation and shipping emissions under a Copenhagen climate treaty have begun in earnest at UN climate negotiations now underway in Bangkok, in a signal the world has lost patience with a lack of serious action by the
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Scientists Want to Cut Farm Animal Methane
Environment  (tags: science, cows, farm animals, methane gas, environment, pollution, nature, globalwarming, emissions )

Cher
- 616 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Britain's finest scientific minds have led the world investigating everything from stem cell technology to the fabric of space and time itself. But now they have turned their attention to the study of a problem that they claim is threatening the future
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Deforestation: The Hidden Cause of Global Warming
Environment  (tags: deforestation, emissions, globalwarming )

Brian
- 641 days ago - independent.co.uk
In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. So why are global leaders turning a blind eye to this crisis?
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Biofuels: The New Greenhouse Threat
Environment  (tags: biofuel, greenhouse gases, land clearing, emissions, global warming, pollution )

RC
- 656 days ago - nytimes.com
It's not the biofuel itself that is the problem, it's the clearing of the land and the processes used to make the stuff that causes the problems. This article explains it all very nicely.
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China Banks on Hydropower to Cut Emissions, But at Huge Human Cost
Environment  (tags: environment, China, hydropower, emissions, energy, humans, habitatdestruction )

Cher
- 737 days ago - iht.com
China's choice is to keep building big dams, even as the social and environmental impacts of the projects are increasingly questioned. The Three Gorges Dam is projected as an anchor in a string of hydropower "mega-bases" planned for the middle and upper
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Power Plants Tied to Mercury Air Pollution
Environment  (tags: environment, air pollution, mercury, power plants, metal, toxic, vapor release, arizona, emissions )

ON VACATI
- 756 days ago - azcentral.com
When it comes to mercury, a naturally occurring metal that can evaporate into a toxic, invisible vapor when released, Arizona's skies are not much dirtier or healthier than those of other states. AZ is 25th in the nation for mercury air emissions
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David Suzuki Says Canadian Environmental Credits Are Eroding
Environment  (tags: Canada, environment, emissions, greenhouse gases, David Suzuki )

RC
- 771 days ago - today.reuters.com
Leading Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki says data submitted to the United Nations shows that since 1990, the country's greenhouse gas emissions have risen more than in any other leading industrialized nation.
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States Petitioned on Ocean Acidification
Environment  (tags: research, science, globalwarming, extinction, emissions, carbonemissions )

Chris
- 832 days ago - news.yahoo.com
A conservation organization has requested that Alaska and six other states add bodies of water to their list of impaired waterways: the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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Contrails or Chemtrails? Is the Government Poisoning Us?   video
Environment  (tags: weather, chemtrails, climate, ClimateChange, emissions, endangered, environment, globalwarming, government, greenhousegases, pollution )

John
- 835 days ago - youtube.com
What are theose lines in the sky? Contrails are water vapor that disipates in minites. Chemtrails are Barium and Aluminium, suposedly used to control the weather. If they can do that what else are they putting up there?
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Province Of Ontario Canada Plans To Close All Coal-Fired Plants
Environment  (tags: energy, environment, emissions, sustainability )

Jarrett
- 838 days ago - treehugger.com
The province of Ontario, Canada's biggest energy user, aims to close its last coal-fired power plant in 2014 and become the only jurisdiction in North America to completely phase out coal.
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Water Bottlers Defend Their Reputation With Full-Page Ads
Environment  (tags: water, waste, environment, carbonemissions, GoodNews, emissions, globalwarming, eco-friendly, Sustainabililty, energy )

Sarah
- 841 days ago - ca.news.yahoo.com
Nestle and Dasani admit they are selling municipalities' city water in plastic bottles and cause those municipalities to have to dispose of/recycle those bottles...and finally there is some thought as to the wasteful bottle of water!
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THE GREAT BIO-FUEL FRAUD: Running Your Car on Hunger
Environment  (tags: carbonemissions, climate, ClimateChange, emissions, energy, globalwarming, greenhousegases, bio-fuel )

Ola
- 841 days ago - atimes.com
This year the Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued a report concluding that using corn-based ethanol instead of gasoline would have no impact on greenhouse-gas emissions, and would even expand fossil-fuel use because of increased demand for [...]
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The Danger of Plastic
Environment  (tags: Plastic sustainability, habitatdestruction, pollution, greenhousegases, environment, globalwarming, energy, emissions, eco-friendly, conservation, carbonemissions )


- 842 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Plastic bags are destructive throughout their entire life cycle - from production to consumption and beyond. Plastic is made from petroleum and other non-renewable resources and takes hundreds of years to breakdown into tiny toxic particles.
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BUILD AN INTEGRAL PASSIVE SOLAR WATER HEATER
Environment  (tags: ClimateChange, carbonemissions, energy, ecosystems, emissions, environment, GoodNews, water, Sustainabililty )

Mary
- 844 days ago - motherearthnews.com
BUILD AN INTEGRAL PASSIVE SOLAR WATER HEATER
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Environmental Impact From the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant
Environment  (tags: destruction, emissions, energy, environment, pollution, research )

Judyth
- 846 days ago - thesop.org
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its final environmental impact statement on the proposed renewal of the operating license for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. The report contains the NRC's finding that there are no environmental impacts that
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