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Carbon Emissions from Aircraft Endanger Human Health, Says US EPA

Carbon Emissions from Aircraft Endanger Human Health, Says US EPA

| June 11, 2015 Comment

Carbon Emissions from Aircraft Endanger Human Health, Says US EPA – According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft endanger human health and is taking the first step toward regulating emissions from the domestic aviation industry. The EPA’s finding kicks off a process to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation […]

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Current California Drought Will Cost Agriculture Sector Almost $2 Billion

Current California Drought Will Cost Agriculture Sector Almost $2 Billion

| June 3, 2015 Comment

Current California Drought Will Cost Agriculture Sector Almost $2 Billion – Researchers at the University of California, Davis found in a study released on Tuesday that the California drought, now in its fourth year, is set to cost the agriculture sector $1.8 billion in direct losses this year. The loss represents around 4% of the […]

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Stable Antarctic Ice Is Suddenly Melting Fast

Stable Antarctic Ice Is Suddenly Melting Fast

| May 21, 2015 Comment

Stable Antarctic Ice Is Suddenly Melting Fast – Sea levels worldwide will rise higher than anticipated, thanks to a new once-stable region of Antarctica that is suddenly melting, and at a fast rate. Analysis of satellite data shows that although the massive ice sheet on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula, made up of multiple glaciers, was […]

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Scientists Find Large Antarctic Ice Shelves Closer to Collapse Than They Thought

Scientists Find Large Antarctic Ice Shelves Closer to Collapse Than They Thought

| May 19, 2015 Comment

Scientists find large Antarctic ice shelves closer to collapse than they thought – In 2002, two-thirds of the massive Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica disintegrated into the ocean, spawning hundreds to perhaps thousands of icebergs, in a span of just six weeks. That event stunned scientists, since it was unprecedented in at least 12,000 […]

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Indian Ocean Storing Up Heat from Global Warming, Says Study

Indian Ocean Storing Up Heat from Global Warming, Says Study

| May 18, 2015 Comment

Indian Ocean storing up heat from global warming, says study – The world’s oceans are playing a game of hot potato with the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists have zeroed in on the tropical Pacific as a major player in taking up that heat. But while it might have held that heat […]

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California Drought Plagues Entire West Coast

California Drought Plagues Entire West Coast

| May 18, 2015 Comment

California Drought Plagues Entire West Coast – With more than two-thirds of Washington state experiencing abnormal dry conditions and more than half of the state experiencing moderate drought, Governor Jay Inslee on Friday declared a statewide drought emergency. According to the Washington state department of agriculture, about $1.2bn of crops could be lost as a […]

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Nestlé Boss Says he Wants to Bottle More Water in California Despite Drought

Nestlé Boss Says he Wants to Bottle More Water in California Despite Drought

| May 14, 2015 Comment

Nestlé Boss Says he Wants to Bottle More Water in California Despite Drought – The CEO of Nestlé Waters has said the company wants to increase the amount of water it bottles in California despite a devastating drought across the state that has triggered demonstrations at the corporation’s bottling plant. Tim Brown, chief executive of […]

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Clean Power Plan Would Save Thousands of Lives Each Year

Clean Power Plan Would Save Thousands of Lives Each Year

| May 5, 2015 Comment

Clean Power Plan Would Save Thousands of Lives Each Year – The Obama administration has taken great pains to frame its Clean Power Plan as an immediate solution for an immediate, quantifiable problem. And now, Scientific American reports that the key takeaway of the first independent, peer-reviewed study on the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) […]

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Show and Tell: How Will You Celebrate Earth Day?

Show and Tell: How Will You Celebrate Earth Day?

| April 21, 2015 Comment

Show and Tell: How Will You Celebrate Earth Day? This Wednesday people worldwide will celebrate the 45th annual Earth Day. The party started early this past Saturday, when more than 200,000 revelers showed up for an Earth Day concert in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The event was solar powered, but unfortunately, there were […]

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“Pee-Power” Will Light Refugee Camps

“Pee-Power” Will Light Refugee Camps

| April 21, 2015 Comment

“Pee-Power” Will Light Refugee Camps – A pioneering toilet that uses urine to generate electricity may soon light up dark corners of refugee camps and disaster zones around the world. The toilet, developed at the University of the West of England in Bristol, uses live microbes which feed on urine – and convert it into […]

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Western Canada’s Glaciers Could Vanish by 2100: Study

Western Canada’s Glaciers Could Vanish by 2100: Study

| April 7, 2015 Comment

Western Canada’s Glaciers Could Vanish by 2100: Study Canada’s glacial ice draws millions of tourists and provides drinking water to two countries, Canada and the US, but this important economic resource could disappear by the end of the 21st century, a new study finds. For the study, scientists devised a new computer model that predicts […]

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India, Home to the World’s Most Polluted City, Launches Air Quality Index

India, Home to the World’s Most Polluted City, Launches Air Quality Index

| April 6, 2015 Comment

India, home to the world’s most polluted city, launches air quality index – India has some of the most unhealthy air of any country in the world, with pollutants from rapid industrial growth killing an estimated 620,000 people per year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). New Delhi currently ranks as the most polluted […]

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