Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:02 PM PST
Smog Exposure During Pregnancy Tied to Tinier Babies
U.S. News & World Report - Feb 6, 2013
WEDNESDAY,
Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnant women exposed to particulate air
pollution -- commonly known as smog -- have a significantly greater risk
of having a baby with a low birth weight, according to a large new
international study.
Pollution has shrunk Indian newbornsTimes of
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 01:14 PM PST
Climate Action Programme
Poll: Americans back climate change regulation, not taxes
EurekAlert (press release) - 3 hours ago
DURHAM, N.C. -- Now that President Obama has put climate change
back on the table in his second inaugural address, a new national poll
finds growing public support for regulating greenhouse gas emissions and
requiring utilities to switch to
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 08:53 AM PST
NPR
Blizzard alert: Northeast snowstorm could be among the worst of all time
NBCNews.com - 1 hour ago
Millions
of Americans brace for a massive storm that threatens to pummel the
Northeast and dump more than 2 feet of snow on parts of New England.
Winter Storm Warning Issued for FridaySalamanca Press (blog)
Northeast Braces For Powerful Winter Storm,
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 07:29 AM PST
Climate change threatens food security
ABC Online - 5 hours ago
SARAH CLARKE: With climate scientists warning of a long term global
warming trend, the forecast across the Asia Pacific region is one of
greater variability.
See realtime coverage »
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 07:23 AM PST
Environmental Leader
Head of IMF: climate change is 'the greatest economic challenge of the
21st ...
Mongabay.com - Feb 6, 2013
Climate change not debt or austerity is "the greatest economic challenge
of the 21st Century," according to Christine Lagarde, the head of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF).
"Future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 07:07 AM PST
Columbus Dispatch
A Cleaner Way to Use Coal Kevin Bullis
MIT Technology Review - 9 hours ago
In ordinary coal plants, coal is pulverized to make a fine powder and then burned in air to produce steam to drive turbines.
OSU process gets 'clean coal' energyColumbus Dispatch
New Coal Technology Harnesses Energy Without Burning, Nears Pilot-Scale ...Science Daily (
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 06:44 AM PST
Areva Studies Asia Offshore Wind Projects as Turbines Get Bigger
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
Areva, Vestas Wind Systems A/S and Siemens AG aim to expand in Asia as China plans 5,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2015.
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 06:19 AM PST
Solar farm eyed for closed landfill
The Daily News of Newburyport - 5 hours ago
Mayor
Thatcher Kezer and city councilors this week confirmed there is
interest in using the former landfill at the intersection of Route 150
and South Hunt Road for solar power, which could bring a considerable amount of revenue into Amesbury. But ...
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 06:17 AM PST
Nanoantenna Solar Cell Efficiency Can Blow Silicon Out Of The Water
CleanTechnica - 5 hours ago
Today, conventional silicon solar cells are 10% to 20% efficient (this
means that they generate 100 watts to 200 watts per square metre of
cells, respectively).
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:40 AM PST
Changing the Conversation on Climate Change. Bloomberg
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:35 AM PST
Farm Futures
Legislators' Climate Change Panel Catches Ag Industry's Attention
Farm Futures - 6 hours ago
Though
it's a controversial topic, U.S. Rep Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and U.S.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., stand firmly behind climate change as a
risk to the country - and now National Farmers Union President Roger
Johnson announced his ...
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:34 AM PST
Media Let Climate Change Off The Hook In Fishing Debate
Media Matters for America (blog) - 17 hours ago
As
government scientists and policymakers attempt to safeguard
disappearing populations of Atlantic Cod off of the New England coast
with stricter catch limits, state and national media continue to ignore
the role of anthropogenic climate change in ...
Climate change
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:32 AM PST
Straits Times
Amazon forest more resilient to climate change than feared - study
Reuters - 18 hours ago
The boost to growth from CO2, the main gas from burning fossil fuels
blamed for causing climate change, was likely to exceed damaging effects
of rising temperatures this century such as drought, it said.
Climate science: Global warming and tropical
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:31 AM PST
MiamiHerald.com
Report outlines climate change options for Obama administration
MiamiHerald.com - 14 hours ago
...
Resources Institute, a think tank that focuses on the environment and
socioeconomic development, looks at the technical and legal authority
President Barack Obama could use to build on the pledge in his inaugural
address to address climate change.
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2.08.2013
02.08.13 AVERTING ECOCIDE - WAR ROOM - Tracking Plan B blog
2.07.2013
02.07.13 AVERTING ECOCIDE - WAR ROOM - Tracking Plan B blog
- US Moves Toward Near-Zero Emission Coal-Fired Power Plant. Yahoo
- Minnesota Power to convert coal plant to gas. Duluth News Tribune
- US power plant emissions drop as coal loses favour. Sydney Morning Herald
- NAACP Releases Coal Blooded Report and Toolkit. Clean Energy News
- A Manmade Island to Store Wind Energy. MIT Technology Review
- Wind Power Breaks Records In Spain — Produces More Electricity Than Any ... CleanTechnica
- Every Two Megawatts of Wind Power in Your County Create One Job and Make ...Motherboard (blog)
- Novel Designs Are Taking Wind Power to the Next Level Kevin Bullis MIT Technology Review
- How Climate Change Impacts America's Energy Infrastructure. World Resources Institute
- IMF Chief: 'Unless We Take Action On Climate Change, Future Generations Will ... ThinkProgress
- New England climate change results 'dramatic'. Eagle-Tribune
- Climate change means catastrophe in UK, not café culture says professor. Telegraph.co.uk
- Report: Climate change could devastate agriculture. USA TODAY
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:12 AM PST
PennEnergy (press release)
US Moves Toward Near-Zero Emission Coal-Fired Power Plant
Yahoo! News (blog) - 19 hours ago
The
U.S. Department of Energy announced this week that Phase II of an
agreement with FutureGen Industrial Alliance has begun, taking the
country one step closer to making commercial-scale carbon capture and
storage technology -- and dramatically
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:09 AM PST
Finance and Commerce
Minnesota Power to convert coal plant to gas
Duluth News Tribune - Jan 30, 2013
Minnesota Power announced Wednesday it will convert its coal-fired power
plant in Hoyt Lakes to natural gas and close one of three coal units at
its Taconite Harbor plant on the North Shore as the utility continues a
move away from carbon dioxode ...
Minnesota
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:08 AM PST
San Francisco Chronicle
US power plant emissions drop as coal loses favour
Sydney Morning Herald - 19 hours ago
In
its second-annual accounting of greenhouse gases, the US Environmental
Protection Agency today released details of emissions from about 8,000
factories, power plants and refineries. Two Southern Co. coal-fired power facilities topped the list ...
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:07 AM PST
Clean Energy News (blog)
NAACP Releases Coal Blooded Report and Toolkit
Clean Energy News (blog) - 2 hours ago
Coal Blooded systematically studies 378 coal-fired power plants
nationwide and evaluates each plant in terms of its environmental
justice performance - how the plant affects low-income communities and
communities of color. This same type of analysis is ...
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:24 AM PST
MIT Technology Review
A Manmade Island to Store Wind Energy
MIT Technology Review - 20 hours ago
When the wind
farm produces excess energy for the local electricity grid, such as
off-peak times in the overnight hours, the island will store the energy
and release it later during peak times.
See realtime coverage »
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:23 AM PST
Wind Power Breaks Records In Spain — Produces More Electricity Than Any
...
CleanTechnica - 4 hours ago
Denmark, the US, and Germany aren't the only countries breaking wind
power records these days. Spain is also a notable leader seeing strong
wind power growth. In fact, it just saw its wind farms produce more
electricity than any other source for a 3 ...
Spanish Wind Farms'
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:21 AM PST
Every Two Megawatts of Wind Power in Your County Create One Job and Make ...Motherboard (blog)
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:20 AM PST
KOKH FOX25
Novel Designs Are Taking Wind Power to the Next Level Kevin Bullis
MIT Technology Review - 8 hours ago
The technology is part of a trend that's made wind power almost as cheap
as fossil fuels. In 1991, wind power cost 15 cents per kilowatt hour.
Wind War in OklahomaKOKH FOX25
Wind-farm efficiency examined at UWWyoming Business Report
See realtime
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:16 AM PST
World Resources Institute
How Climate Change Impacts America's Energy Infrastructure
World Resources Institute - 15 hours ago
As we've seen recently with Hurricane Sandy, epic drought, and
wildfires, climate change visibly impacts lives and livelihoods
throughout the United States.
See realtime coverage »
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:11 AM PST
ThinkProgress
IMF Chief: 'Unless We Take Action On Climate Change, Future Generations Will ...
ThinkProgress - 13 hours ago
At
the World Economic Forum in Davos, she said, “the real wild card in the
pack” of economic pivot points is “Increasing vulnerability from
resource scarcity and climate change, with the potential for major social and economic disruption.”
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:09 AM PST
MPBN News
New England climate change results 'dramatic'
Eagle-Tribune - 7 hours ago
“No doubt we've seen some very important changes to the ecological
system from climate change,” said Rick Wahle, a research associate
professor from the University of Maine.
Report: Climate change affects region's wildlifeSan Francisco Chronicle
Report: Climate Change Causing Rapid
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:08 AM PST
Climate change means catastrophe in UK, not café culture says professor
Telegraph.co.uk - 59 minutes ago
Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research, said Government and local authorities are failing to
grasp the risks to Britain for global warming.
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:06 AM PST
Report: Climate change could devastate agriculture
USA TODAY - 15 hours ago
A
comprehensive USDA study concludes rising temperatures could cost
farmers millions as they battle new pests, faster weed growth and get
smaller yields as climate change continues. farming. The country was battered by the worst drought to hit in more ...
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2.02.2013
Energy Secretary Chu steps down, blasts climate-change skeptics. Yahoo
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"The overwhelming scientific consensus is that human activity has had a significant and likely dominant role in climate change," Chu warned in his letter. "There is also increasingly compelling evidence that the weather changes we have witnessed during ...
1.27.2013
AVERTING ECOCIDE blog 01.27.13 Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM
Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM 01.27.13
- San Francisco on track to become zero-waste city. pbs
- HUGE: V3Solar Spin Cell = 8 Cents/kWh (CleanTechnica Exclusive)
- 33% Of All Global PV Shipments Ended Up In China In The 4th Quarter. CleanTechnica
- Due to Criminal US Apathy: China and Australia top list of 'carbon bomb' projects. Guardian
- Australian coal mining #2 Threat of Ecocide.
- How high could the tide go? NYT
- Ecocide: Former Met Office chief says 2°C climate target missed.
- vids - Clean Energy Revolution Is Critical, Do-Able, & Good For Jobs & The Economy
- Mountaintop Removal Mining Proves Hard to Stop. EP Magazine
- Smart Grid - $2 trillion or so in Efficiency Gains
- Obama advisers call for halt to Arctic oil exploration. Guardian
- China going Nuclear Power - Big. Economist
- Sandy, is the Future. SF Chronicle
- Soot, Carbon 1/3 of Warming's Cause [Diesel, Cooking Fuels]? Economist
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Posted: 26 Jan 2013 03:28 PM PST
San Francisco on track to become zero-waste city.
San Francisco is trying to become the first
city with zero waste. By requiring residents and businesses to separate
compostable items such as food scraps, as well as recyclable items, the
city has already reduced a huge amount of garbage from ending up in
landfills, NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports.
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Posted: 26 Jan 2013 03:14 PM PST
HUGE: V3Solar Spin Cell = 8 Cents/kWh (CleanTechnica Exclusive)
Posted: 24 Jan 2013 02:04 PM PST
Quite
frankly, if the company’s numbers are correct, this could be the
biggest solar news of the decade, or even a greater timespan. (And CleanTechnica
got the inside scoop — due to our sincere passion for helping the
world, and probably also our status as the top cleantech or clean
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Posted: 26 Jan 2013 02:52 PM PST
33% Of All Global PV Shipments Ended Up In China In The 4th Quarter
Posted: 23 Jan 2013 07:00 AM PST
According to new research
from the NPD Solarbuzz Quarterly report, the Chinese end-market received
33% of global solar photovoltaic (PV) shipments in the fourth quarter
of 2012.
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Posted: 26 Jan 2013 02:23 PM PST
China and Australia top list of 'carbon bomb' projects.
China and Australia top a global list of
planned oil, gas and coal projects that will act as "carbon bombs" and
push the planet towards catastrophic climate change, a Greenpeace report
warned on Tuesday.
The Guardian
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Posted: 26 Jan 2013 02:21 PM PST
Australian coal mining threatens CO2 target.
The forecast expansion of Australian coal
mining and exports would be the world's second-largest contributor of
new carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels if fully realised,
research by Greenpeace International has found.
Melbourne Age
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Posted: 26 Jan 2013 02:19 PM PST
How high could the tide go?
The question of just how high the oceans
might rise in a warmer world has taken on new urgency in the aftermath
of Hurricane Sandy, which caused coastal flooding that scientists say
was almost certainly worsened by the modest rise of sea level over the
past century.
New York Times
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Posted: 26 Jan 2013 01:56 PM PST
Former
Met Office chief says 2°C climate target missedResponding to Climate
ChangeA former head of the UK's Met Office has dismissed any possibility
of the world limiting global warming to 2°C. Speaking at the GLOBE
International summit ...
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Posted: 26 Jan 2013 12:56 PM PST
Connie Hedegaard: Clean Energy Revolution Is Critical, Do-Able, &
Good For Jobs & The Economy (VIDEOS)
Posted: 20 Jan 2013 06:45 AM PST
Connie Hedegaard, the
European Commissioner for Climate Action in the European Commission
since February 2010, gave a great keynote speech at the World Future
Energy Summit (part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week) a few days ago.
Below are two videos
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Posted: 26 Jan 2013 12:45 PM PST
Mountaintop Removal Mining Proves Hard to StopEP MagazineMountaintop removal
is a form of surface mining used extensively throughout Appalachia that
uses explosives to remove the summits of mountains to expose coal
seams. Excess rock and soil laden with toxic mining byproducts are often
dumped into nearby ...See all stories on this topic »
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Posted: 26 Jan 2013 12:39 PM PST
Is smart grid worth it? How does a $2 trillion efficiency benefit sound?Smart Grid NewsEvenly spread across the various grids?
Or do the improvements help just ERCOT and PJM? $1 Trillion is a lot of
savings, $2 Trillion is enough to buy more than a few StarBuck coffees
-- it would really be interesting to here more and how the estimated ...See all stories on this topic »
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Posted: 26 Jan 2013 07:07 AM PST
Obama advisers call for halt to oil exploration.
The entire future of Shell's drilling plans in
the Arctic was put in doubt on Friday after two of Barack Obama's most
trusted advisers called for a permanent halt to oil exploration.
The Guardian
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Posted: 26 Jan 2013 07:03 AM PST
Nuclear power: Back on the front burner.
China wants more nuclear plants than anyone
else. Will it build them safely? There are now more nuclear projects
underway in China than in any other country. The sheer number raises
worries about safety.
Economist
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Posted: 26 Jan 2013 07:01 AM PST
Is rebuilding in hurricane zones wise?
Sandy is the future. As carbon dioxide
emissions blast past worst-case scenarios, rising sea levels and storm
surges will reshape every U.S. coastline. But it is only beginning to
dawn on Americans, half of whom live on the coasts, that their future is
a battle against the sea.
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Posted: 26 Jan 2013 06:59 AM PST
The new black.
For years the institutions that focus on
climate policy have played down the role of pollutants such as black
carbon that stay in the atmosphere for a short time, and concentrated on
carbon dioxide, which, once generated, tends to remain there. That may
soon change.
Economist
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***** World Leading Economist Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse' The Guardian
| The Guardian | - |
Lord Stern, author of the government-commissioned review on climate change
that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners,
now says he underestimated the risks, and should have been more "blunt"
about the threat posed to the ...
Stern Review - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Review
The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change is a 700-page report released for the British government on 30 October 2006 by economist Nicholas ...1.26.2013
AVERTING ECOCIDE - WAR ROOM blog 01.26.13
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Tracking Plan B - WAR ROOM
- Coal exporters hit local opposition in the Northwest.
- Drought points up critical role of waterways. NYT
- Five US Coal Export Facilities to Asia Proposed.
- Lest you stop it, Global Warming may wipe out your Pension. Guardian
- 2012 Grain Consumption Exceeded Production
- China Targeting 10 GW of New Solar Capacity In 2013. CleanTechnica
- Wind farm nimbyism means we just handed 13000 jobs to Ireland New Statesman
- Climate change endangers elephants. Planet Earth
- ***** World Bank President Kim On Climate Crisis: ‘If There Is No Action Soon, The Future Will Become Bleak’
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Posted: 25 Jan 2013 04:30 PM PST
Whether by river or rail, coal exporters hit local opposition in the Northwest.
Rainier town is one of a score of communities
that lie between the Powder River Basin, home to 40 percent of U.S. coal
reserves, and five proposed export terminals in Oregon and Washington.
Kinder Morgan's Port Westward project would send 12 coal-packed trains
per day through here.
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Posted: 25 Jan 2013 04:28 PM PST
Drought points up critical role of waterways.
If drought does emerge as a more prominent
facet of life on the Mississippi and navigation is impeded, the effect
on national and even global commerce will undoubtedly be felt. If the
river got so low that navigation had to stop, grain exports and the
other commodities could get a lot more expensive very quickly.
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Posted: 25 Jan 2013 04:22 PM PST
Coal's 'lifeline to Asia' emerges as new front in global warming fight.
Five proposed export terminals for U.S. coal
offer a lifeline to an industry being squeezed by low natural gas prices
and tougher environmental rules, a combination that has eaten into
domestic demand.
ClimateWire
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Posted: 25 Jan 2013 04:20 PM PST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/climate-change-resource-scarcity-pension-industry-actuaries
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Posted: 25 Jan 2013 04:08 PM PST
2012 Grain Consumption Exceeded Production
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Posted: 25 Jan 2013 03:55 PM PST
China Targeting 10 GW of New Solar Capacity In 2013
Posted: 16 Jan 2013 08:12 PM PST
We
are two weeks into the new year and China continues its march towards
clean energy dominance. The Asian giant is aiming to have up to 10
gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity this year.
According to PV Magazine, if successful, will more than double its total capacity currently at 7GW.
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Posted: 25 Jan 2013 12:07 PM PST
Wind farm nimbyism means we just handed 13000 jobs to Ireland
New Statesman - 5 hours ago
Yesterday the UK and Irish governments signed an agreement that could
see British businesses and consumers funding wind farm developments in
Ireland that will export electricity to the UK.
Ireland to build 'giant' wind turbines to power UK homesBBC News
Ireland and UK sign wind farm
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Posted: 25 Jan 2013 10:41 AM PST
Planet Earth
Climate change endangers elephants
Planet Earth - 8 hours ago
Climate change endangers elephants. 25 January 2013, by Harriet Jarlett.
By making new use of historical records, scientists have shown that
climate change could have a greater impact on Myanmar's elephants'
dwindling numbers than previously thought.
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Posted: 25 Jan 2013 10:32 AM PST
World Bank President Kim On Climate Crisis: ‘If There Is No Action Soon, The Future Will Become Bleak’
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