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Biodiversity
Fossil Record Supports Coming Mass Extinction Global temperatures predicted for the coming centuries may trigger a new ‘mass extinction event’, where over 50 per cent of animal and plant species would be wiped out. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs WTO Biodiversity Amendment Gains Traction A proposal to amend the World Trade Organization rules on intellectual property rights to require the disclosure of the origin of genetic resources in patent applications gained significant new support when 50 least-developed countries signed on. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Species Extinction Could Reduce Productivity of Plants on Earth by Half The study summarized the results of 44 experiments from around the world that simulated plant species extinction and showed that ecosystems with fewer species produce up to 50 percent less plant biomass than those with more "natural" levels of diversity. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs 60 Year Plant Study of Extinction Taking advantage of the Park Grass experiment, in which the fate of populations of herbaceous plants subjected to different fertilizer treatments have been followed for 60 years, researchers discover important details of the science of extinction. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Species Watch Vietnam Sets Aside Land for Saola Tasmanian Devil Heads For Extinction New Species of Frog in India Melting Ice Pack Displaces Alaskan Walrus Scandinavian Seals Hit by Virus Again Giant Invasive Snails Overrun Brazil S.African Cabinet Bans Abalone Fishing 29% of World's Primates Approach Extinction, New Report New Population Of Iberian Lynx Wolves Making Comeback in Germany Alaskan Governor Palin Says Polar Bears Not Endangered Amphibian Extinction May Be Worse Than Thought One Third of Europe's Freshwater Fish Face Extinction: IUCN Business
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Environmentalists Target iPhone for Lawsuit A group of environmentalist lawyers are threatening to sue Apple in 60 days if the iconic US company doesn't make iPhones greener or warn buyers of toxins in the devices. Their attack is based on the findings explained in a YouTube video. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Monsanto Files Suit Against French GMO Activists The French unit of US Biotech giant Monsanto has filed a lawsuit following the latest destruction of some of its test fields for genetically-modified maize. Monsanto said that unidentified activists had ransacked three test fields in Valdivienne in central France after dark. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Green Star to Build Algae to Biodiesel Plant The 100-acre Algae Facility will be constructed adjacent to an existing biodiesel plant and will use the CO2 emitted from the biodiesel plant's boilers to feed a portion of the algae facility needs (CO2 mitigation), which will reduce Global Warming emissions. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs BrightSource Energy to Build 400MW Solar Tower The California Energy Commission has accepted an application from Oakland solar startup BrightSource Energy Inc. to develop the 400-megawatt Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS), a solar thermal power plant -- the first large solar thermal facility proposed for California in 16 years. The ISEGS is a project to develop three solar thermal power plants and shared facilities near Ivanpah Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert close to the California-Nevada border. >Story (pdf) >Post Comments >Related Blogs Climate
Climate is Too Complex for Accurate Predictions Climate change models, no matter how powerful, can never give a precise prediction of how greenhouse gases will warm the Earth, according to a new study. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Contributions to Accelerating Atmospheric CO2 Growth from Economic Activity, Carbon Intensity, and Efficiency of Natural Sinks Since 2000, the contributions of these three factors to the increase in the atmospheric CO2 growth rate have been 65±16% from increasing global economic activity, 17±6% from the increasing carbon intensity of the global economy, and 18±15% from the decreases in the efficiency of natural sinks such as the oceans and forests. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock At the age of eighty-eight, after four children and a long and respected career as one of the twentieth century's most influential scientists, James Lovelock has come to an unsettling conclusion: The human race is doomed. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Impact of British Tax on Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Has Faded Over Time The British experience holds important lessons for today's policymakers. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Sequestration and Treaty Watch International Carbon Action Partnership Forms Carbon Market Carbon Capture and Storage: Blue-Sky or Blowing Smoke? Biodegradable Plastic From CO2 Geoengineering Plan to Expand Ocean CO2 Absorption Should We Throw a Little Cooling Sulfate into the Stratosphere? Underground CO2 Storage Study to Begin Carbon Mitigation by the Energy Crop, Miscanthus Using Supercritical CO2 to Extract Antioxidants from Micro Algae Indonesia Seeks Allies for Pay-for-Forests Plan Energy
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Blue Ribbon Energy Panel Devises Global Strategy Commissioned by the governments of Brazil and China, this report identifies a scientific consensus framework for directing global energy development. It lays out the science, technology and policy roadmap for developing energy resources to drive economic growth in both industrialized and developing countries while also securing climate protection and global development goals. The report was produced by a study panel of 15 world-renowned energy experts, co-chaired by Nobel Laureate Steven Chu, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in the United States, and José Goldemberg, former Secretary of State for the Environment for the State of São Paulo, Brazil. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Nuclear Technology Not Ready for Prime Time The US led Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) seeks to expand the use of nuclear energy from recycled nuclear waste. However, the technologies required for achieving GNEP's goals are too early in development to justify DOE's accelerated schedule for construction of commercial facilities that would use these technologies. Furthermore, another DOE program called Generation IV, is unlikely to achieve its goal of a next-generation nuclear power plant in operation by 2017 because of the focus on GNEP. The Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative, a program to generate hydrogen using nuclear energy, is dependent on the success of the Generation IV program. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Mexican President Vetoes Biofuel Law According to Calderón, the law focuses too much on producing ethanol biofuel from sugar cane and maize, without considering other new technologies that could allow for seaweed, bacteria, enzyme and cellulose biofuels. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs First Analysis of the Water Requirements of a Hydrogen Economy One of the touted benefits of the futuristic US hydrogen economy is that the hydrogen supply—in the form of water—is virtually limitless. This assumption is taken for granted so much that no major study has fully considered just how much water a sustainable hydrogen economy would need. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Buildings and Housing Watch New Roofing System Means 8% Energy Savings Magnetocaloric Materials For New Refrigeration Technologies Aluminum Foil Lamps Outshine Incandescent Lights Focus on Green Housing Insulation European Regulation of Standby Energy Consumption Magnetic Refrigeration Milestone of 5 to 10 Degrees Cooling LED Lamp With 1,000 Lumens is Brighter Than 50 Watt Halogen Forests and
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Global Comparison of National Biodiesel Production Potentials Colombia, Ghana, Malaysia, Thailand and Uruguay are the top five developing countries likely to attract biodiesel investment because of their strong agricultural industries, relative stability and low debt. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Upper Midwest Forests in USA Are Losing Diversity, Complexity >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Estimate of State-by-State Mercury Emissions From US Fires Forest fires and other blazes in the United States likely release about 30 percent as much mercury as the nation's industrial sources, according to initial estimates in a new study by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Latin American Priests and Nuns Fight Logging In Latin America, Catholic priests and nuns are confronting loggers and miners from multinational companies on behalf of the poor according to Sierra Magazine writer Merilyn Berlin Snell in her recent article, “Bulldozers and Blasphemy.” >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Agriculture and GM Watch Lowering Bomb Making Potential of Fertilizer EU Allows Imports of Four GMO Crop Products African Cassava Breeders Call for New Varieties' Quick Release US Farm Bill Could Fall Short of Expectations Nitrogen Fertilizers Deplete Soil's Organic Carbon Two Shot Dead at Syngenta GM Research Farm in Brazil Pumice Possesses Excellent Hydroponic Properties Designer Toxins Effective Against BT-Resistant Pests European GM Crop Cultivation Leaps 77 Per Cent Nutrition, Health,
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Child Mortality at Record Low; Further Drop Seen >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs |
 Barnwell County, South Carolina, USA: A container of low-level radioactive waste is stored at the Barnwell dump. Barnwell County has been a disposal site for much of the nation's low-level nuclear waste for the past 36 years. But by July of next year, the waste site will close to most of the nation - forcing many states to store their own radioactive garbage and raising concerns that many companies, universities and hospitals aren't fit to do so. (Credit: South Carolina Energy Office) Nutrition, Health,
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