Canada expects an international climate agreement to become effective within the next four years, to avoid harmful consequences triggered by climate change, according to the declaration of its Environment Minister Peter Kent.
He hopes the Durban summit will provide a “mandate” to negotiate the new legal... |
9 December 2011
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Pope Benedict XVI encourages a “responsible” agreement as a result of the Climate Summit in Durban, South Africa. While representatives from all parts of the Globe will try to find appropriate ways of curbing the alarming amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the Pope hopes to witness effective ch... |
28 November 2011
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An anti-pressure group has issued a report highlighting that wealthy nations are trying to “bully” developing countries on the matter of climate change. As the Durban summit is expected to provide efficient measures to monitor and control climate change, recent information suggests that the world's... |
28 November 2011
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A researcher teams up with the owner of a gas company and decides to find out how leaky Boston's gas system really is. Their findings are quite shocking. They indicate a severe problem represented by over 4,000 gas leaks distributed all across the historical city.
Biologist Nathan Phillips at Boston University... |
22 November 2011
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EU and United States representatives declared that reaching an international climate deal this year in Durban is not "realistically possible."
The states' officials plan to meet in Durban, South Africa, to discuss and apply at an international level initiatives to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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28 October 2011
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Nowdays,when the global population reached 7 billions and its energy demand is increasing, scientists try to develop efficient alternatives to replace traditional sources of power. While MIT Energy Initiative is preparing to celebrate its 5th anniversary, its researchers are presently trying to find out if zero-car... |
27 October 2011
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A new study carried out by Canadian and US researchers, concluded that climate change actually causes wildfires to burn more intensely, thus releasing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and speeding up the process.The research focused on northern wildfires and Jennifer Harden, a US Geological Survey scientist ... |
6 December 2010
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The Earth's greenhouse effect is mainly caused by water vapors and clouds, but a new atmosphere-ocean climate modeling research shows that it is ultimately the carbon dioxide who is in control of the planet's temperature.A study led by Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) co-author Gavin Schmidt, acce... |
15 October 2010
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One of the environmental priorities is to capture and store greenhouse gas, while implementing ways of producing less. If carbon-capture technology is added to conventional coal plants, greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced. The problem is cost.The standard method of collecting CO2 increases electricity costs by 80... |
23 July 2010
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Researchers discovered that the Australian outback has a huge CO2 storage potential. To date it already contains 9.7 billion tons of carbon within vegetation, trapped inside leaves and roots. If the area's management strategy is revised it could help the country reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, by absorbing ... |
14 July 2010
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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
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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
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Tarong Power is one of the main electricity suppliers in Queensland, where it's responsible for producing some 25 percent of the demand in the region. It has three major, coal-fired plants. Two of those, Tarong and Tarong North, engulf approximately 7 million tonnes of coal from the nearby mines of the company e... |
11 November 2008
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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
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The U.S. could cut its gasoline consumption to half by 2035 if the correct measures are employed by authorities and the population soon, says a new MIT study led by John Heywood, professor of mechanical engineering. Hydrogen, electricity and renewable fuel are the way to go if the impact cars nowadays have on the env... |
11 October 2008
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Methane gas escapes from ocean floor fossil deposits at a rate of about two hundred or more cubic meters every day, which poses some environmental concerns, as the methane gas is a greenhouse gas, which causes a global warming effect 23 times more accentuated than carbon dioxide would, during a century. About half of... |
21 December 2007
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