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A report commissioned by global security vendor McAfee suggests that spam doesn't only cost money, but is also significantly contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. The study reveals that the energy consumed to deal with the huge amount of spam every year could be used to power 2.4 million U.S. homes. Climate... |
17 April 2009
08:49 GMT |
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The environmental organization Greenpeace announced last weekend that it was pressuring president-elect Barack Obama harder and harder, urging him to take an active interest in the UN Climate Change Conference, which takes place in Poznan, Poland, between December 1-12. Greenpeace says that Bush's disastrous pol... |
8 December 2008
16:31 GMT |
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Concerns about the state of the world's oceans have increased over the past few decades, as the effects of global warming became more and more obvious to those who could see them. These worries prompted several studies of global waters, including the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. However, until recently, the ... |
24 November 2008
08:38 GMT |
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Previous reports of four of the largest car manufacturing countries in the European Union coming to a consensus on how to reduce the amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) their automobiles put in the atmosphere were neither infirmed, nor confirmed by Thomas Steg, a spokesman for the German government.During a press confere... |
21 November 2008
17:01 GMT |
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When the Soviet Union collapsed, it left behind several nations that were entirely reliant on the communist giant to survive. These countries, along with a few others in Asia, including China and India, are now on a steep ascending curve, in what regards the amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHG) ... |
18 November 2008
04:53 GMT |
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Japanese carbon dioxide emissions increased by 2.3 percent over the year ending March 2008, which means that the nation failed to respect the obligations it committed to through the Kyoto Protocol. The document is an agreement between several countries, stating that, by 2012, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must drop ... |
18 November 2008
02:44 GMT |
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Climate change may cause the glaciers of the Himalayans to recede at a much higher rate than anyone could have anticipated, warn both Indian and foreign environment experts. They say that continuous carbon emissions in the atmosphere cause increased temperatures, which, in turn, force glaciers to recede at very high ... |
13 November 2008
10:00 GMT |
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International Energy Agency's (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2008 report, the latest annual document released, paints a bleak image of the future of energy worldwide. The paper says that energy demands will constantly increase in the next couple of decades, which will lead to a planetary increase in temperature, by ... |
13 November 2008
03:03 GMT |
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Increasing carbon emissions from power plants relying on fossil fuels for generating electrical current have prompted utilities companies to try and combine both polluting and clean energy techniques in a single facility. As a result, the Electric Power Research Institute will outfit two natural gas-powered plants in... |
12 November 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Geoengineering, a concept that may have sounded like science-fiction a couple of decades ago, is now being seriously considered as a last-resort option, in the fight against global warming. Though they may seem extreme, solutions like injecting the atmosphere with specific particles of dust may be the last things sta... |
11 November 2008
09:21 GMT |
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The new geothermal plant that opened Thursday, November 6th, is the first modular plant of its kind, meaning that its building time only lasted for about 6 months. This is a very short term for such an undertaking, as regular thermal power plants usually take about 5 to 7 years to plan and build. Raser Technologies I... |
10 November 2008
10:56 GMT |
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Recent scientific studies have discovered that a byproduct of the solar industry, a gas called Nitrogen Trifluoride (NF3), has 17,000 times the potential of carbon dioxide, in trapping heat inside Earth's atmosphere. The worst part about this is that there are currently no regulations to limit or prevent the use... |
7 November 2008
02:36 GMT |
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The idea of rich, developed countries paying poorer nations annual sums of money for the protection of the rain forests is not a new one, and international officials have been considering the pros and cons of this kind of measures for quite some time now. Recently, Prince Charles, speaking on behalf of the United Kin... |
6 November 2008
14:41 GMT |
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The natural abilities that peridotite rocks have are no secret to scientists, as researches pointed to their potential years ago. At the time, harnessing the power of the rocks was deemed as a too costly project and the initiative was abandoned. Currently, geologists showed that peridotite doesn't have to be tra... |
6 November 2008
04:35 GMT |
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After the recent ban that the European Union placed on incandescent light bulbs, a statistics report, formulated by the Worldwatch Institute, shows that the electricity consumption could indeed decrease by more than 40 percent Union-wide, if conventional bulbs are eliminated altogether and carbon fluorescent light (C... |
3 November 2008
04:55 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that global warming is heating up our planet, because of ever-increasing quantities of carbon dioxide emitted in the atmosphere by heavy industrial activities worldwide. And, though some people still don't believe this is happening, nature doesn't really care what they believe, no... |
25 October 2008
04:09 GMT |
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A new report on greenhouse gas emissions recently came from China, a highly-unusual event, considering the fact that the country is "sealed" to outside investigations and that the last report it published on the matter dates back more than a decade ago. The survey says that the nation will double its carbon emissions... |
23 October 2008
03:35 GMT |
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For hundreds of years, architects have recognized the important role that white roofs play in reflecting sunlight and keeping the homes below cool. Around the Mediterranean Sea, cities built on hill slopes are all painted white, to offset the high temperatures registered there annually. New reports confirm that build... |
23 October 2008
02:23 GMT |
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Large surfaces in China are subjected to natural disasters caused by global warming every year, statistics show. Most of them occur because authorities have little to no modern equipments and technologies with which to detect or prevent them. By 2050, predictions advise that a significant percentage of China's 1... |
22 October 2008
10:52 GMT |
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Some U.S. landfills managed to turn waste residues into a profitable business, by capturing and selling methane gas that is generated by decomposing trash. A few gas collectors placed at strategic locations throughout major landfills can generate considerable amounts of usable gas, which is then transported to larger... |
22 October 2008
05:52 GMT |
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In recent times, more and more countries have begun expressing their support for Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs over conventional, incandescent ones. The advantages became clear once statistics showed that CFLs decrease the energy consumption by 40 or, in some cases, even 60 percent. The save in cumulated carb... |
20 October 2008
02:56 GMT |
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Starting 2012, the U.S. military plans to begin construction of one of the largest solar-powered electrical plants in the country, which is to be finished and fully operational by 2014. The plant will generate an enormous 500 megawatts of energy, several hundred times more than the largest current such facility, that... |
13 October 2008
04:41 GMT |
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Carbon dioxide is the main chemical element that influences global warming, in that it virtually "traps" heat moving away from the surface of the planet and redirects it downwards, creating a greenhouse effect of sorts. And since this has been common knowledge for some time now, scientists have always agreed that the... |
13 October 2008
02:38 GMT |
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