Tag: Asia
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Our Fossil-Fueled Future: World Energy in 2040
If the experts at the U.S. Department of Energy are right, the startling “new” fuels of 2040 will be oil, coal and natural gas—and we will find ourselves on a baking, painfully uncomfortable planet.
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World Petroleum Use Sets Record High, Asia Remains Largest Consumer
The world’s consumption of gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, heating oil and other petroleum products reached a record high of 88.9 million barrels per day …
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Will the World Bank Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is?
Unprecedented heatwaves, widespread food shortages, more intense cyclones and shifting rain patterns causing either floods or droughts are just some of the future problems outlined in the World Bank’s latest climate report …
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U.S. Coal Exports Set Monthly Record
Coal exports from the U.S. in March 2013 totaled 13.6 million short tons, nearly 0.9 million short tons above the previous monthly export peak in June 2012. The U.S. Energy Information Agency is projecting a third straight year …
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New Film Exposes Climate Threats of Powder River Basin Coal Mining and Exports
A Pacific Northwest coal project is threatening the global environment on a scale greater than the Keystone Pipeline, but most people have never heard of it. Momenta, a documentary collaboration between …