News tagged with emissions data

Canada cuts CO2 emissions, but misses target

Canada's greenhouse gas emissions fell steadily from a peak in 2007 to 692 megatons in 2010, but remain far above its original target, according to government data released Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Where the wild winds blow: Stanford engineers use weather models to site offshore wind farms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Politics aside, most energy experts agree that cheap, clean, renewable wind energy holds great potential to help the world satisfy energy needs while reducing harmful greenhouse gases. Wind ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Earth Hour dilemma: When the 'like' button harms the planet

Green groups around the world are turning to social networking to drive their campaign for Earth Hour on Saturday, when lights are turned off for an hour to signal concern about global warming.

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created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Engineers enlist weather model to optimize offshore wind plan

Politics aside, most energy experts agree that cheap, clean, renewable wind energy holds great potential to help the world satisfy energy needs while reducing harmful greenhouse gases. Wind farms placed offshore could play ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

China accuses US firm over child lead poisoning

Authorities in Shanghai have accused US Fortune 500 battery maker Johnson Controls and several other companies of emitting excessive amounts of lead blamed for poisoning dozens of children.

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created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Trees on tundra's border are growing faster in a hotter climate

Evergreen trees at the edge of Alaska's tundra are growing faster, suggesting that at least some forests may be adapting to a rapidly warming climate, says a new study.

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created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

SwRI demonstrates traffic management to minimize environmental impacts

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is collecting and communicating real-time vehicle emissions data to demonstrate new concepts in environment-based traffic management as part of a connected vehicle test ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Alert level lowered on remote Alaska volcano

(AP) -- The Alaska Volcano Observatory has lowered the alert level for a remote Aleutian Islands volcano from "watch" to "advisory."

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A cosmic exclamation point

(PhysOrg.com) -- VV 340, also known as Arp 302, provides a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in the early stages of their interaction. The edge-on galaxy near the top of the image is VV 340 North ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 42 | with audio podcast

EU carbon emissions 'plummeted in 2009'

Greenhouse-gas emissions by the 27 members of the European Union fell by 7.1 percent in 2009 over 2008, driven by economic recession but also a switch to renewable energy, the European Environment Agency (EAA) ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Satellite images: Hook echoes, debris and damage

This image shows the radar reflectivity from the National Weather Service Doppler Radar in Birmingham, Ala. at 5:10 p.m. CDT on April 27, 2011, as a supercell thunderstorm moved across the city. The radar ...

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created May 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Majority of European firms fail on carbon reporting: study

Less than half of Europe's top 300 firms are publishing full and verified carbon emission data, with French and Swiss companies ranking worst at greenhouse gas reporting, a study showed Tuesday.

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created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Berkeley lab to help China improve energy efficiency of data centers

The amount of energy consumed by data centers is increasing rapidly around the world, and China is no exception. With its growing information technology and telecom industries and its emerging status as a supercomputer power, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Purdue analysis cuts ethanol greenhouse gas emission estimates

(PhysOrg.com) -- Revisions to a Purdue University economic analysis have cut about 10 percent of the total emissions expected from an increase in corn ethanol production.

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created May 03, 2010 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Study gives green light to plants' role in global warming

Plants remain an effective way of tackling global warming despite emitting small amounts of an important greenhouse gas, a study has shown.

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created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1