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Some 251.4 million years ago, the Permian Age came to an abrupt end, when a massive extinction event, known among experts as the “Great Dying”, killed off just about everything on the planet, with just a few exceptions. The event marked the beginning of the Triassic Age, and experts have been puzzling ove... |
6 November 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Over the past few weeks, coal and natural gas companies have intensified their efforts to hinder the Australian government's plans, which call for the introduction of a carbon-trading scheme by 2010. Officials from these companies say that the new legislation, which is due to be voted in June, will cripple produ... |
2 April 2009
09:00 GMT |
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has finally come to its senses following its period of submission to political will during the Bush administration, and has finally put all the permits of mountaintop mining operators on hold, pending further investigation. As Bush left the White House, he granted his personal f... |
25 March 2009
07:38 GMT |
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One of the main arguments brought by critics to renewable energy such as solar and wind power is that these methods of generating electricity are very expensive, and that continuing to produce the needed amounts of power from oil and coal is justified by the lower costs, especially in the crippled economy. Now, new a... |
16 March 2009
07:25 GMT |
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The US Congress now finds itself in a dilemma – how to impose changes in the way America produces electrical energy, while at the same time keeping standards high. And the best place to start thinking about this is the Capital Power Plant, a 99-year-old facility that is supplying power to the important building... |
2 March 2009
04:40 GMT |
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According to researchers at Stanford University, who are closely monitoring China's carbon emissions, the country has leveled off its impressive energetic sector growth in the last months of 2008, compared to the same time frame in previous years. This doesn't mean that the country descended from the top pl... |
7 January 2009
03:33 GMT |
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After Bush and the EPA made the coal mining industry a going-away present, in the bill that allowed it to dump debris from its mountaintop exploitations – in other words, the sites where they blew the top of mountains and picked the coal that came out – activists from several environmental groups managed ... |
9 December 2008
05:54 GMT |
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Last week, the Bush administration again favored the fossil fuel industry over the environment, when it allowed for new legislation, regulating the amount of debris that mountaintop mining companies could throw away into adjacent streams in valleys. As soon as the decision was announced, environmental groups started ... |
8 December 2008
05:21 GMT |
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The construction of new coal-powered power plants in the US has now grinded to an almost complete standstill, because tighter carbon capture and storage regulations are in place in most states. And because most builders cannot afford the technology needed for sequestration, they simply prefer not to build the plant a... |
5 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Approximately 90 days from now, LA inhabitants will have a chance to look over the plan that will make their city one of the most environmental-friendly on the face of the Earth. The project, called Solar LA, was announced on Monday by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who says that countless solar panels will be installed... |
5 December 2008
04:36 GMT |
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Two of the largest solar power research institutes, the Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the American National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), with the express purpose of forwarding international research and tech... |
4 December 2008
06:56 GMT |
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Peaceful Greenpeace protesters were met with violence by Poznan miners on Monday, as they attempted to write STOP next to a huge bulldozer, used for coal transport. The miners prevented the activists from protesting and removed them from the area. Police arrived at the scene shortly and separated the two groups. This... |
25 November 2008
04:56 GMT |
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Rotterdam's Mississippi harbor was completely blocked during this weekend, as two Greenpeace ships, the Rainbow Warrior and the Beluga II, prevented coal shipments on their way to the Netherlands from reaching their destination. The move was saluted by other environmental organizations as well. They said that th... |
17 November 2008
02:34 GMT |
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that, most likely, coal would remain the world's top energy source for the next couple of decades, until 2030. The report predicted continued increases in coal usage worldwide, but especially in non OPEC countries, such as China. By 2015, electrical current produce... |
14 November 2008
10:01 GMT |
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The Chinese official said on Thursday (October 30th) that the nation had no intention of reducing its enormous yearly carbon output anytime soon. Instead, he said that the largest developing country would push for the introduction of efficient pollution-management methods, such as carbon traps and new filtering syste... |
3 November 2008
07:53 GMT |
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According to the latest estimates, China is the world's largest producer and consumer of coal, having already brought, or planning to bring on-line a large number of coal-powered power plants, in the nation's rich Northern coal basin. But with higher rates of consumption come very high risks, translated in ... |
28 October 2008
01:15 GMT |
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There is a general misconception that nuclear power plants produce dangerous levels of radiation during their electric energy production activity, or that they are just another disaster waiting to happen. The truth is that aside the fact that they produce energy in an extremely efficient manner, without emitting any ... |
15 December 2007
04:58 GMT |
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A rainforest represents an explosion of life, the peak of biological diversity on Earth. But the trees that make the current rainforest appeared for the first time during the Cretaceous, at the sunset of the dinosaur realm. So, when did the first rainforest appear? And how did it look like?Now a British-American te... |
23 April 2007
05:19 GMT |
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