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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
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Natural Gas has been touted as a green way to shift our economy off of petroleum, but the public is slowly realizing that things like shale gas are not such a great new revelation. Natural Gas still involves an extraction and refinement process that is comparable to petroleum.
Continue Reading Environmental News Wrap: July 6-12
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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
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- Biomass energy has been touted as a smart way to deal with bio-refuse. The idea is being reexamined though because the act of burning bio-refuse is more damaging than any alternative. Also, the pay off for making biomass burning carbon neutral is 50-100 years away, and we need to address climate conditions now, not later.
Continue Reading Environmental News Wrap – June 16-21
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World Water Week concludes with a statement urging delegates at the upcoming COP15 climate conference to better integrate water issues into their negotiations this coming December.
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According to the United Nations Environmental Program, buildings consume one-fifth of the world’s available water – a staggering number when considered. So, what do the architecture and engineering (A/E) firms who design those buildings have to say about water use? A recent study by McGraw-Hill’s Construction sheds light on the subject.
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A report released last week called ” In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement” outlines the ongoing effects of climate change on the growing migration of “climate refugees.”
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With organizations and representatives around the world gearing up for key international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen this December, the experience of industrial tree farming in South Africa highlights the perils and pitfalls associated with hammering out a more comprehensive, multidisciplinary and integrated accord.
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United Nations’ executives and agencies highlight the need for new models, policies, and investments in sustainable agriculture, water resource conservation and management, and ecosystem services if future crises worse than recently experienced are to be averted.
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The UN and partners announced the launch of an international research project that aims to evaluate and assess the ability of soils and forest in nine developing countries to capture and store carbon, as well as provide a range of additional environmental, social and economic benefits. The project aims to open up nascent carbon markets to farmers, ranchers, foresters and conservationists around the world.
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The Europeans seem confident they’re at a competitive advantage in the current climate and economic crisis because they’ve been playing by the (environmental) book for the past decade.
Brussels has just adopted an Energy and Climate Package (pdf) that insiders boast will set the scene for a “new global industrial revolution”. Those are the very words the European Energy commissioner used to describe the new laws which were passed April 6. Curious what this is all about?
Continue Reading Will Europe Become Energy Independent in a Generation?
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Alpine glacial melting along the Swiss/Italian border will soon force the two governments to redraw centuries-old border.
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