Tag: climate change
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Climate Change Puts the Squeeze on Wine Production
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL — What we’ve learned about wine has important implications for agriculture, climate change and conservation in general. Just as it’s moving wine-producing regions, climate change will be moving other agricultural areas, which may displace wildlife habitat. An important lesson for the future of conservation is …
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Youth Explorers Embark to North Pole to Bury Time Capsule for Save the Arctic Campaign
GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL — The trekkers are carrying with them a time capsule that contains a declaration with 2.7 million signatures calling for the Arctic to be made a global sanctuary. They plan to lower the capsule and …
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Is the Keystone XL Pipeline the ‘Stonewall’ of the Climate Movement?
TOMDISPATCH — Bill McKibben: Still, let’s put things in perspective: Stonewall took place in 1969, and as of last week the Supreme Court was still trying to decide if gay people should be allowed to marry each other. If the climate movement takes that long, we’ll be rallying in scuba masks …
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Study: Environmental Policies Matter for Growing Megacities
A new study shows clean-air regulations have dramatically reduced acid rain in the United States, Europe, Japan and South Korea over the past 30 years, but the opposite is true in fast-growing East Asian megacities, possibly due to lax antipollution rules or lack of enforcement.
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Study: ‘Waste heat’ May Reduce Costs for CO2 Capture
Rice University team seeks to optimize CO2 removal from power plant emissions In some of the first results from a federally funded initiative to find new ways of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired power plants, Rice University scientists have found that CO2 can be removed more economically using “waste” heat — low-grade steam that…