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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission's biggest-ever delegation to China heads for Beijing this week, hoping to progress from words to action on China's soaring greenhouse gas emissions and its tense trade ties with Europe.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales on Monday criticized "some South American presidents" for supporting the use of biofuels, which he said are responsible for high food prices and global hunger.
NEW ORLEANS-People walking around the Sheraton Hotel here are talking about population as if it were the most natural conversation in the world. The topic interests me, so I join in. As it happens, I've written a book on it, just published by Island Press, which I don't shrink from mentioning. Just being here, though, reminds me that human numbers aren't often talked about outside this hotel.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The United Nations honored Monaco's Prince Albert II and New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark on Tuesday for driving policies to tackle climate change. The pair were among the seven winners in the annual U.N. Champions of the Earth awards.
Rising energy and environmental costs may prevent nuclear power from being a sustainable alternative energy source in the fight against global warming, according to a new study. In the article, Gavin M. Mudd and Mark Diesendorf investigate the "eco-efficiency" of mining and milling uranium for use as fuel in nuclear power plants. Advocates of nuclear power claim it has the potential to mitigate global warming. Detractors, however, link it to dangers such as proliferation of nuclear weapons and problems such as permanent disposal of nuclear waste.
Here is an educated guess at what the world might look like by Earth Day 2058 -- not a prediction or a warning, but more of a natural extension of current trends, some of them hopeful ones: The hot job is that of sustainable design engineer. In 2058, all products, processes, services, packaging have to be designed to sustainable standards —minimal use of water in production, manufacturing and export, minimal use of petrochemicals due to limited availability and high price, minimal use of energy inputs, and so on.
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The world was in shock when in 2001 the Talibans destroyed two ancient colossal Buddha statues in the Afghan region of Bamiyan. Behind those statues, there are caves decorated with precious paintings from 5th to 9th century A.D. The caves also suffered from Taliban destruction, as well as from a severe natural environment, but today they have become the source of a major discovery. Scientists have proved, thanks to experiments performed at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), that the paintings were made of oil, hundreds of years before the technique was "invented" in Europe. Results are published today in the peer-reviewed Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.
In honor of Earth Day 2008, Greenloop begged the question of eco fashion: Are we making a difference? This series continues with this response from Wendy Tremayne, creator of Swap-O-Rama-Rama(who we featured in an earlier article on In The Loop dedicated to greening your closet). Swap-o-rama-rama is a traveling clothing swap and do-it-yourself workshop in which various communities explore creative reuse through by turning their old used clothing into fabulous new creations. Wendy is of course a champion of DIY culture and these are excerpts from the insightful thoughts she wanted to share for Earth Day 2008
Technology is a HUGE part of our daily lives. We carry around cell phones and media players, work all day on a computer and come home to watch television. But electronic devices make up 70 percent of the toxic waste in our landfills. Here's eight ways to make sure your need for information doesn't compromise the environment.
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Around America, people are waking up to the fact that the way our food is produced has profound implications for the environment, as well as for public health. As Earth Day approaches, perhaps the most vital thing people can do for the environment is to change what they eat -- to locally-grown, sustainably-produced food. By: Center for Biological Diversity
The U.S Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service did not give Columbia River and southwestern Washington populations of the coastal cutthroat trout a fair shake when it denied the trout protection under the Endangered Species Act. By: The Trust for Public Land
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The first, single, comprehensive online database of land conservation in America was unveiled today by the Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national conservation organization. By: Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council
Two dozen educators from the US Pacific islands convened at a workshop April 15 and 16, 2008, in Honolulu to establish a pilot program for regionally-based marine education and training programs in the region. By: Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council
The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council on April 14, 2008, in Honolulu upheld its vote made last month to close federal waters around American Samoa, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands (CNMI) to purse seine fishing. By: The San Diego Zoo
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a pair of nene (Hawaiian goose) will be featured on the 2008-2009 Federal Junior Duck Stamp. The design for the new stamp, painted by 18-year-old Seokkyun Hong of Dallas, Texas, was chosen by a panel of judges Thursday at the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Design Contest held at the San Diego Zoo. By: Water Environment Research Foundation
It's been a problem since the first indoor toilets were installed – what do you do with the sewage? At the beginning, citizens had to step over rivers of waste flowing in the streets and over the land; then governments organized sanitary systems to pipe the sewage to rivers and oceans. By: The San Diego Zoo
Kilauea Volcano on the island of Hawai'i continues to cause seismic tremors, lava flow and toxic gas emissions. Despite this threat, a few miles down the slope from the crater, animal care staff at the San Diego Zoo's Keauhou Bird Conservation Center continue their efforts to save endangered species.
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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*
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
ENN: Earth Day 2008! Green you Technology, Population Concerns, and Much More
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