News tagged with carbon gases
Electric bikes on a roll in China
Chinese commuters in their millions are turning to electric bicycles -- hailed as the environmentally-friendly future of personal transport in the country's teeming cities.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 21, 2010 |
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Cars running on ethanol can pollute too: Brazil study
Cars running on sugarcane ethanol can produce as many harmful pollutants as those using ordinary petrol (gasoline), according a study published by Brazil's environment ministry.
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Scrubbing sulfur: New process removes sulfur components, CO2 from power plant emissions (w/ Video)
The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a reusable organic liquid that can pull harmful gases such as carbon dioxide or sulfur dioxide out of industrial emissions from ...
Aug 18, 2009 |
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New method may help allocate carbon emissions responsibility among nations
Just months before world leaders are scheduled to meet to devise a new international treaty on climate change, a research team led by Princeton University scientists has developed a new way of dividing responsibility ...
Jul 06, 2009 |
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US expects China to cut emissions after a 'peak year'
The United States wants China to accept slow increases in its greenhouse gas emissions until it hits a "peak year," beyond which a real decrease must occur, US negotiator Todd Stern said Friday.
Jun 13, 2009 |
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All the carbon counts
Cutting down forests for agriculture vents excess carbon dioxide into the air just as industrial activities and the burning of fossil fuels do. But whether policies to stabilize greenhouse gases in the atmosphere ...
May 28, 2009 |
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Working on the railroad? Using concrete could help environment
Wood or concrete? Railroads around the world face that decision as they replace millions of deteriorating cross ties, also known as railway sleepers, those rectangular objects used as a base for railroad tracks. ...
May 07, 2009 |
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The rise of oxygen caused Earth's earliest ice age
(PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists may have uncovered the answer to an age-old question - an ice-age-old question, that is. It appears that Earth's earliest ice ages may have been due to the rise of oxygen in Earth's ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 07, 2009 |
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NYPD Goes Green
(PhysOrg.com) -- New York City has a goal to reduce its overall carbon footprint. For Manhattan, the goal is to reduce greenhouse gases 30% by 2017. As part of this effort, the New York City Police Department ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 05, 2009 |
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US supports reducing climate-warming gases
(AP) -- The Obama administration called hydrofluorocarbons widely used in refrigerators and air conditioners "a very significant" threat to climate change Monday, and expressed a preference for drastically ...
May 04, 2009 |
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EPA finds greenhouse gases pose a danger to health
(AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency concluded Friday that greenhouse gases linked to climate change "endanger public health and welfare," setting the stage for regulating them under federal clean air laws.
Apr 17, 2009 |
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Aerosols May Drive a Significant Portion of Arctic Warming
(PhysOrg.com) -- Though greenhouse gases are invariably at the center of discussions about global climate change, new NASA research suggests that much of the atmospheric warming observed in the Arctic since ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 08, 2009 |
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EPA closer to global warming warning (Update)
(AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the first step on the long road to regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Scientist models the mysterious travels of greenhouse gas
The global travel logs of greenhouse gases are based on atmospheric sampling locations sprinkled over the Earth and short towers that measure the uptake or release of carbon from a small patch of forest. But those measurements ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Decisive action needed as warming predictions worsen, says expert
Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are rising more rapidly than expected, increasing the danger that without aggressive action to reduce emissions the climate system could cross a critical threshold by the end of the century, ...
Feb 14, 2009 |
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