March 25, 2004
David Suzuki Foundation
Ottawa Urged To Enforce Auto Fuel Efficiency
Toronto Star
The Canadian government should follow the lead of several American states and legislate higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars rather than leave it to automakers, environmentalists say.
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Experimental Car Is Powered By Air
Detroit Free Press
In an industrial park a few miles from Nice on the French Riviera, Guy Negre has developed an environmentalist's dream car.
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Greenhouse Gas Level Hits Record High
New Scientist
The level of the major greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, in the Earth's atmosphere has hit a record high, US government scientists have reported.
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Study Says Five Percent of Greenhouse Gas Came from Exxon
Planet Ark
Exxon Mobil Corp. has historically been responsible for about 5 percent of the world's carbon emissions, a finding that could prod more shareholder resolutions on climate change, environmental groups said on Wednesday.
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The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare
Fortune
The climate could change radically, and fast. That would be the mother of all national security issues.
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The Greenhouse Diet
Earth Island Journal
You may be familiar with the dangers of climate disruption as a result of human-induced increases of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. But recent scientific discoveries hint at disastrous disruptive effects of increased CO2 concentrations on ecosystems - effects that are quite distinct from the climatic effects of this gas.
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Plugging Into The Power Of Sewage
New Scientist
The waste you flush down the toilet could one day power the lights in your
home. So say researchers at Pennsylvania State University who last week
revealed they have developed an electricity generator fuelled by sewage.
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Climate Change 'Wiping Out World's Coral Reefs'
The Scotsman
Half the world's coral reefs could be wiped out or badly damaged by the end of the century, a leading ocean scientist predicted today. The chief agent of this destruction was climate change, said Dr Richard Aronson, who helped compile the most definitive study yet on the impact of global warming on reefs.
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Hollywood Disaster Film Set To Turn Heat On Bush
The Guardian
Movie depicting horrors of global warming could boost votes for Democrat challenger.
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Insurer Warns Of Global Warming Catastrophe
Reuters
The world's second-largest reinsurer Swiss Re warns that the costs of global warming threaten to spiral out of control, forcing the human race into a catastrophe of its own making.
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Costly Gas Necessary Evil: Report
The Globe and Mail
Canadian motorists are enduring high prices at the gas pump, but even bigger hikes will be needed to crimp consumption and tame global warming, according to a major report from the International Energy Agency.
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Let's Make It Pay To Save Energy
The Toronto Star
Some of the most creative thinkers in the province are wrestling with an unusual challenge. Ontario has to find a way to subvert the laws of economics.
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Global Warming Hitting Northwest Hard, Researchers Warn
Seattle Times
To find the most compelling evidence to date that global warming could shrink damp Cascade snows by half in coming decades, Seattle scientists first took a step back in time.
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Smog-Busting Paint Soaks Up Noxious Gases
New Scientist
A paint that soaks up some of the most noxious gases from vehicle exhausts
will goes on sale in Europe in March. Its makers hope it will give
architects and town planners a new weapon in the fight against pollution.
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America's New Coal Rush
Christian Science Monitor
Utilities' dramatic push to build new plants would boost energy security but hurt the environment.
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Wind Power Leaps Forward
Terra Daily
Power capacity generated by the wind surged by more than a quarter last year, mainly thanks to an expansion in Germany and other European countries, according to industry figures released Wednesday.
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