Environmental Pollution

Sky's the Limit as Beijing's Smog Lifts

Beijing residents are taking a collective deep breath and enjoying the best air the city has had for 11 years. The capital's environmental protection bureau said on Friday the reduced smog and improved visibility was the result...

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Obama ready to offer target for cutting greenhouse emissions

President Barack Obama is considering setting a provisional target for cutting America's huge greenhouse gas emissions, removing the greatest single obstacle to a landmark global agreement to fight climate change. The Observer...

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How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world

Eco expert: Fred Pearce is an environmental consultant to New Scientist magazine Last week it was revealed that 54 oil tankers are anchored off the coast of Britain, refusing to unload their fuel until prices have risen. For 31...

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Let’s look at one of the illegally hacked emails in more detail — the one by NCAR’s Kevin...

The answer to the question “where the heck is global warming?” is “precisely where you would expect,” as we will see. Wired has done some excellent reporting on one of the supposed start-dumping-your-clean-energy-stocks e-mails...

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Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars

cheeks5965 writes "We've argued before over compressed air vehicles, a.k.a. air cars. Air cars are an enchanting idea, providing mobility with zero fuel consumption or environmental impacts. The NYTimes' Green Inc. blog reports...

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Global Warming Buffs Baffled by Lack of Global Warming Over Past Ten Years

Stagnating Temperatures Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out spiegel.de | Nov 19, 2009 By Gerald Traufetter Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures...

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Quebec hints at strong climate stance ahead of Copenhagen conference

The province will announce an "ambitious" target for greenhouse gas reduction, Environment Minister Line Beauchamp said yesterday, hinting Quebec's 2020 target would be at least 25 per cent below 1990 levels.

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Westernfield Holdings Ramping Up Carbon Offset Funding

Westernfield Holdings Inc. is looking to ramp up funding for carbon offset projects in Asia that fall within the guidelines of the U.N.’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and is jointly financing an $80 million Malaysian...

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Ralph Izzo -- Cap-and-trade climate legislation would be good for business

As a citizen, a father and a physicist, climate change tops my list of worries. As chief executive of the Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), one of the country's largest energy companies, I'm also finding it to be a...

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Honda leads in fuel efficiency

Honda Motor Co. has the most fuel efficient fleet in the United States, followed closely by Hyundai Motor Co., the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday in releasing preliminary figures for 2009.

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