Tag: environment
member name: Jack E.
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November 06, 2009 07:54 AM EST --
Environment America report: "Wasting Our Waterways"
Environment America's fall report "Wasting Our Waterways: Toxic Industrial Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act" points . . .
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January 14, 2009 05:03 PM EST --
One of the world's top climate scientists has written a personal new year appeal to Barack and Michelle Obama, warning of the "profound disconnect" between public policy on climate change . . .
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January 18, 2009 04:21 PM EST --
Science Daily --
Slight changes in climate may trigger major abrupt ecosystem responses that are not easily reversible.
Some of these responses, including insect outbreaks, wildfire, and forest . . .
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January 24, 2009 12:40 PM EST --
Forests of spruce trees and shrubs in parts of northern Canada are taking over what were once tundra landscapes--forcing out the species that lived there. This shift can happen at a much faster speed . . .
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May 16, 2009 08:17 AM EDT --
BBC -- The collapse of a major polar ice sheet will not raise global sea levels as much as previous projections suggest, a team of scientists has calculated.
Writing in Science, the researchers . . .
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October 08, 2008 07:57 PM EDT --
Cigarettes don’t cause cancer, Saddam had nuclear weapons, and global warming is good for your health. Can you guess which one of those lies did not come from the White House?
Luckily, the administration . . .
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October 31, 2008 03:39 PM EDT --
UTC Power System at New Mexico Greenhouse is First Geothermal Plant Operating in State
UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp company, today announced that the first two production units of its . . .
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January 23, 2009 11:32 AM EST --
By Mark Kinver --
Ecologists have seen a sharp increase in the number of trees dying
Old growth trees in western parts of the US are probably being killed as a result of regional changes to . . .
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January 25, 2009 11:16 AM EST --
Climate change is scientific fact and should be taken serious by all people that look forward to a healthy and happy life for their generations yet to be born.
Climate change Made Simple
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June 21, 2009 10:34 AM EDT --
America faces unprecedented economic, environmental and national security challenges. We urgently need new jobs, stable energy prices, and freedom from dirty fossil fuels and global warming pollution. . . .
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April 28, 2009 11:08 PM EDT --
TROMSOE, Norway (Reuters) - An area of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming, . . .
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May 13, 2009 08:33 PM EDT --
Science Daily -- With the U.S. Congress beginning to consider regulations on greenhouse gases, a troubling hypothesis about how the sun may impact global warming is finally laid to rest.
Carnegie . . .
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September 22, 2009 01:16 PM EDT --
I believe global warming is going to speed up on us and go out of control, my own opinion based on information I research from the scientific community and the legislation already passed and future . . .
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November 19, 2008 03:44 PM EST --
Water Falls
Whether you believe in God, the Big Bang theory, or some other idea you cannot deny the fact that the world in which we live in is mind-blowingly overwhelming. We live upon a . . .
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February 20, 2009 10:06 AM EST --
Areas with lowland permafrost are likely to shrink in northern Sweden. Warmer summers and more winter precipitation are two of the reasons. This is shown in a new dissertation from Lund University in . . .
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March 21, 2009 10:45 AM EDT --
Clean Coal? How can something clean destroy towns, poison the water and leave behind a toxic environment?
The idea behind clean coal centers on new ways to reuse and store the carbon emissions from . . .
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April 06, 2009 09:59 PM EDT --
A growing number of states are moving to require home builders to offer solar electricity and hot-water systems in new homes, right alongside more traditional options such as fancy kitchen countertops . . .
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May 06, 2009 09:15 AM EDT --
By GinaMarie Cheeseman -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Departments of Agriculture and Energy held a press conference yesterday about the Obama administration’s proposal to increase . . .
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October 09, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
To illustrate the findings of their model, MIT researchers created a pair of 'roulette wheels.' This wheel depicts their estimate of the range of probability of potential global temperature change . . .
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October 17, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
A new epoch is beginning at the top of the Earth, where the historic melting of the vast Arctic ice cap is opening a forbidding, beautiful, and neglected swath of the planet. Already, there is talk that . . .
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