Monthly Archives: April 2009

Gasoline Prices Remain Steady

By | Published: April 30, 2009
National average hovers around $2 a gallon Original post by miscellaneous
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Africa to monitor climate change

By | Published: April 30, 2009
Agence France-Presse: The African Union (AU) on Wednesday launched a satellite receiving station to track the effects of climate change on the world’s poorest continent. The station, the first of its kind, is named AU-African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development and will receive data from the European satellite agency EUMETSAT at the [...]
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Tree-Killing Hurricanes Could Contribute To Global Warming

By | Published: April 30, 2009
ScienceDaily: A first-of-its kind, long-term study of hurricane impact on U.S. trees shows that hurricane damage can diminish a forest’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide, a major contributor to global warming, from the atmosphere. Tulane University researchers from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology examined the impact of tropical cyclones on U.S. forests from [...]
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Sierra Leone: GPI Targets Global Warming, Hunger

By | Published: April 30, 2009
Concord Times: Greener Planet Initiative (GPI), an international non-governmental organization, said they are in the country to fight against global warming and hunger. Speaking at the launch of the Kattu Town Programme held at 4 Mile, Newton, president and executive director of GPI Michelle Kim said her organization is in the country to plant [...]
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Renewable Resources Can Power U.S., Even Southeast

By | Published: April 30, 2009
iGreenwire: The Southeast has enough renewable resources to meet the 25 percent renewable-power mandate proposed by draft House energy and climate legislation, according to a new assessment [pdf] by environmental groups. The report was released today as lawmakers negotiate over whether to scale back the renewable electricity standard in the bill sponsored by Energy [...]
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Could Energy Innovation Create A ‘Green Bubble’?

By | Published: April 30, 2009
iNational Public Radio: One argument for a major overhaul of the U.S. electricity grid is to encourage the development of more renewable sources of energy, such as wind and solar. President Obama certainly has gotten behind green energy, and his administration is part of a concerted effort to help the industry grow. In the [...]
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Southern Glaciers Grow Out Of Step With North

By | Published: April 30, 2009
iScienceDaily: The vast majority of the world’s glaciers are retreating as the planet gets warmer. But a few, including ones south of the equator, in South America and New Zealand, are inching forward. A new study in the journal Science puts this enigma in perspective; for the last 7,000 years New Zealand’s largest glaciers [...]
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Arctic Trek To ‘Break The Ice’ On New NASA Airborne Radars

By | Published: April 30, 2009
ScienceDaily: NASA will ‘break the ice’ on a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change when a team of scientists embarks this week on a two-month expedition to the vast, frigid terrain of Greenland and Iceland. Scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, [...]
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Sea Salt Holds Clues To Climate Change

By | Published: April 30, 2009
iScienceDaily: We know that average sea levels have risen over the past century, and that global warming is to blame. But what is climate change doing to the saltiness, or salinity, of our oceans? This is an important question because big shifts in salinity could be a warning that more severe droughts and floods are [...]
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Commission slams ‘patchy progress’ on EU renewables goals

By | Published: April 30, 2009
Envirornmental Finance: The EU is unlikely to meet renewable energy targets set for 2010, according to a report by the European Commission, which forecasts renewables will make up 19% of the bloc’s electricity supply and 4% of the transport fuels by next year. The report, published on Friday, shows the bloc will fall short [...]
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Enforcement of EU renewables law ‘faltering’

By | Published: April 30, 2009
iEurActiv: The European Commission insists that the EU’s new Renewable Energy Directive gives it sufficient power to ensure national compliance, after it admitted that the Union is unlikely to meet its goal of sourcing 12% of its energy from renewables in 2010. Background: In 1997, the European Commission published a White Paper on [...]
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United States: Big Sky State makes play to be a CO2 importer

By | Published: April 30, 2009
iClimateWire: Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D) has some big ideas for the role the Big Sky State could play in helping to create cleaner skies in a carbon-limited future. If the unorthodox statesman gets his way, Montana could become a repository for vast amounts of carbon dioxide currently being spewed into the atmosphere by [...]
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Gene discovery could help make crops resistant to heat, drought

By | Published: April 30, 2009
CBC: Canadian researcher Sean Cutler, who is an assistant professor at the University of California Riverside, led the research. Here he is shown with some of the Arabidopsis plants used for testing. (UC Riverside Strategic Communications) After a decades-long search, researchers say they have finally found an elusive group of proteins that help plants [...]
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We count calories. Why not carbon?

By | Published: April 30, 2009
Christian Science Monitor: Thanks to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), I see that my serving of Honey Nut Cheerios has 110 calories. This, along with dozens of other data points on the box, helps me make educated choices to do right by my body. I’m ready to tackle the day as an informed consumer [...]
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NASA to measure ocean salinity from space

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iUnited Press International: U.S. space agency scientists say they are preparing a satellite to measure the salinity of Earth’s oceans. The Aquarius satellite, to be launched during May 2010, will be the first National Aeronautics and Space Administration instrument to track sea salinity from space. Sea saltiness today, as it has been for [...]
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