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Energy poverty creating a respiratory disease 'epidemic' for almost half the world's population

Limited access to clean sources of energy, known as energy poverty, makes nearly half the world's population reliant on burning wood, animal waste, coal or charcoal to cook. This leads to severe respiratory diseases that ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Researchers suggest high energy emissions from Crab Nebula come from wind

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of physicists studying the Crab Nebula have offered a new theory to explain its extraordinarily high energy emissions that have intrigued space scientists for years. ...

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created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

India, China attack EU on airline carbon tax

India and China joined forces on Tuesday in saying they firmly rejected the EU's "unilateral" decision to impose a carbon tax on air travel.

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created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

China's pollution related to E-cars may be more harmful than gasoline cars, researchers find

Electric cars have been heralded as environmentally friendly, but findings from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers show that electric cars in China have an overall impact on pollution that could be more harmful ...

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created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (13) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Planck mission steps closer to the cosmic blueprint

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Planck mission has revealed that our Galaxy contains previously undiscovered islands of cold gas and a mysterious haze of microwaves. These results give scientists new treasure to mine ...

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created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Transforming galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of the Universe's galaxies are like our own, displaying beautiful spiral arms wrapping around a bright nucleus. Examples in this stunning image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on ...

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created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Ethanol mandate not the best option

Many people are willing to pay a premium for ethanol, but not enough to justify the government mandate for the corn-based fuel, a Michigan State University economist argues.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Advanced power-grid model finds low-cost, low-carbon future in West

(PhysOrg.com) -- The least expensive way for the Western U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other ...

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created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Fuel from market waste

Mushy tomatoes, brown bananas and overripe cherries -- to date, waste from wholesale markets has ended up on the compost heap at best. In future it will be put to better use: Researchers have developed a new ...

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created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Airline industry split widens over EU carbon 'tax' row

A split widened within the aviation industry Tuesday over EU charges for carbon emissions, as Europe's low-cost carriers accused Chinese and US rivals of "gunboat" diplomacy against the system.

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created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

All set and ready to glow

A new technique that paves the way for manufacturing affordable LED light bulbs is to be exploited in the UK, in a deal that researchers say could have a dramatic impact on carbon emissions.

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created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

China bans airlines from paying EU carbon charges

China said Monday it has banned its airlines from complying with an EU scheme to impose charges on carbon emissions opposed by more than two dozen countries including India, Russia and the United States.

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created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

World powers 'plan anti-carbon tax talks'

India, Russia, the United States, China and other countries will meet in Moscow this month to decide whether to retaliate against the EU's decision to impose a carbon tax on air travel, a report says.

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created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (5) | comments 17

Radio stars: Caltech's astronomy professor searches for cosmic radio waves

Growing up in rural northwest Ireland, beyond the reach of city lights, Gregg Hallinan fell in love with the night sky. "When you didn't have bad weather, and you didn't have clouds, the skies were nothing ...

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created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Green potential of our industrial past

Manipulating the soil in urban and industrial areas in order to capture more carbon from the atmosphere is the “best resource we have to begin to mitigate human CO2 emissions”, experts claim.

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created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0