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Modern agriculture and land-use practices may lead to major disruptions of the world's water flows, with potentially sudden and dire consequences for regions least able to cope with them researchers at the Stockholm University-affiliated Stockholm Resilience Centre and McGill University have warned.
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Pacific Gas & Electric today will announce a deal to buy as much as 900 megawatts of electricity. It will be enough to power 540,000 California homes each year, and involve the construction of five solar power plants during the next decade. The company to build the solar-thermal power plants in the Mojave Desert is BrightSource Energy. "From what I know, this is the biggest commitment ever in the history of solar," said John Woolard, BrightSource Energy's chief executive officer and president. "It's a fairly significant undertaking on both sides."
Karen Strecker is bracing. She's about to turn on the faucet, and there's a chance liquid manure is going to stream from the spout. "I've been taking a bath and actually had cow shit pour into the tub,'' Strecker says, matter-of-factly. She uses well water. "It's nasty." Yet the threat of a sewage bath pales in comparison to a more dangerous problem: Breathing poisonous fumes.
This month, NASA begins the most extensive field campaign ever to investigate the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere. The mission is poised to help scientists identify how air pollution contributes to climate changes in the Arctic. The recent decline of sea ice is one indication the Arctic is undergoing significant environmental changes related to climate warming. NASA and its partners plan to investigate the atmosphere's role in this climate-sensitive region with the Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS) field campaign.
"In the end, there is no question whether technological innovation is necessary--it is," write the authors in the Nature commentary. "The question is, to what degree should policy focus explicitly on motivating such innovation" The IPCC plays a risky game in assuming that spontaneous advances in technological innovation will carry most of the burden of achieving future emissions reductions, rather than focusing on those conditions that are necessary and sufficient for those innovations to occur."
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's northeast Catalonia region will need to import water by ship and train from May to ensure domestic supplies if the current drought persists, the regional government said in a report. The report, sent to Reuters on Friday, said rainfall in all but one of Catalonia's 15 river basins was below emergency levels for the year so far.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Economic costs of damages caused by climate change can be contained by implementing well designed policies that are adopted by a large group of countries, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday. In new analysis, the IMF said those costs can be reduced through long-term, flexible policies that can avert further climate changes, including a carbon pricing system that is credible to both people and businesses.
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Friday he had stopped government plans to raise compulsory bioethanol blending levels in fossil gasoline. Politicians and industry groups had criticized the plans to raise the level to 10 percent for some gasoline grades from five percent, fearing the increase would damage older cars.
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San Jose, CA - West Coast Green, the world's largest residential green building conference, is moving to San Jose. West Coast Green 2008, which will take place at the San Jose Convention Center from September 25-27, offers over 100 presenters, 380 exhibitors, and is expected to attract more than 13,000 attendees. By: Earth Policy Institute
"With concerns about climate change mounting, the era of coal-fired electricity generation in the United States may be coming to a close," says Lester R. Brown, President, and Jonathan G. Dorn, Staff Researcher, of Earth Policy Institute, in a recent release, "The Beginning of the End for Coal: A Long Year in the Life of the U.S. Coal Industry" By: Great Ape Trust of Iowa
A group of some 15 chimpanzees facing extinction in an isolated pocket of Rwandan rain forest will have a greater range – and, thus, greater chances for survival – thanks to one of Africa's most ambitious forest restoration and ecological research efforts ever. Organizers of the project, named the Rwandan National Conservation Park, said today that a 30-mile (50km) tree corridor will be planted to connect the Gishwati Forest Reserve, the chimpanzees' home range, to Nyungwe National Park. By: American Honda Motor Co., Inc
American Honda Motor Co., Inc., has partnered with Keep America Beautiful for a fourth year as the Official Automobile Manufacturer of the Great American Cleanup. By: Center for Biological Diversity
Monday the Center for Biological Diversity notified the Fish and Wildlife Service of its intent to file suit against the agency for missing the first deadline in the Endangered Species Act listing process for the ashy storm-petrel, a California seabird imperiled by development and global warming. By: RezHub.com
RezHub.com, an online travel agency who became both a pioneer and leader in Green Travel with the launch of their Green Travel Hub website, breaks ground again today with the integration of a revolutionary green travel search. With the kick-off of their new travel search, RezHub.com becomes the first travel site in history to incorporate Green Score ratings and information in every hotel search. Travelers now have a quick and easy way to learn about environmentally friendly lodging options, without having to spend extra time researching and reserving their trips at multiple websites. By: California Safe Schools
Yesterday in Los Angeles, many distinguished environmental health and justice advocates in addition to political leaders expressed their gratitude & praised the efforts of the Los Angeles Unified School District, (2nd largest in the nation) for working cooperatively for a decade with California Safe Schools (CSS), a children's environmental health organization in creating the most protective pesticide policy for schools in the country. By: International Fund for Animal Welfare
Today, experts with IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org) denounced the Canadian government's claims that a new condition of licence will improve the humaneness of Canada's commercial seal hunt.
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A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. The Great Lakes area is in a unique position to become an energy exporting region through these and other renewable energy technologies. *Update 2014: Just do it everywhere - Dan*
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