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Global Carbon Market Hits 22 Billion Dollars
Washington (AFP) Oct 26, 2006The global market in carbon emissions has doubled from 2005 levels to stand at nearly 22 billion dollars so far this year, the World Bank said Thursday. "All the data show that the carbon market is becoming a powerful financial force supporting clean development," said Karan Capoor, co-author of a new World Bank report on emissions trading. MIT's Pint-Sized Car Engine Promises High Efficiency, Low Cost 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Oct 30, 2006MIT researchers are developing a half-sized gasoline engine that performs like its full-sized cousin but offers fuel efficiency approaching that of today's hybrid engine system--at a far lower cost. The key? Carefully controlled injection of ethanol, an increasingly common biofuel, directly into the engine's cylinders when there's a hill to be climbed or a car to be passed. Unique Imaging Uncovers The Invisible World Where Surfaces Meet 
Milwaukee WI (SPX) Oct 30, 2006Hoping to find new ways of addressing environmental pollution, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has developed some novel ways to observe what happens inside a cell when it comes in contact with contaminants or when toxic substances touch soil and water. An object's molecules and electrons are always in motion, vibrating and wiggling. |
Global Warming Could Cost Trillions Of Dollars
London (AFP) Oct 29, 2006Global warming will cost the world up to seven trillion dollars in the next decade unless governments take drastic action soon, a major British report will warn according to a newspaper report Sunday. Former World Bank chief economist Sir Nicholas Stern was commissioned last year by finance minister Gordon Brown to lead a review into the economics of climate change and will deliver his findings Monday. Appalachian Mountains, Carbon Dioxide Caused Long-Ago Global Cooling 
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Oct 30, 2006The rise of the Appalachian Mountains may have caused a major ice age approximately 450 million years ago, an Ohio State University study has found. The weathering of the mountains pulled carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, causing the opposite of a greenhouse effect -- an "icehouse" effect. Bacterial 'Switch Gene' Regulates How Oceans Emit Sulfur Into Atmosphere 
Athens GA (SPX) Oct 30, 2006Scientists have discovered a bacterial "switch gene" in two groups of microscopic plankton common in the oceans. The gene helps determine whether certain marine plankton convert a sulfur compound to one that rises into the atmosphere, where it can affect the earth's temperature, or remain in the sea, where it can be used as a nutrient. |
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German Uranium To Be Flown To Russia
Berlin (AFP) Oct 28, 2006Germany is set to fly 200 kilogrammes of enriched uranium to Russia for reprocessing before the end of the year, the German environment ministry said on Saturday. The waste was produced by a Soviet-era research reactor in Rossendorf, near Dresden in the former East Germany, which was closed down in 1991. Wealthy Amenity Ranchers Taking Over The West 
Corvallis OR (SPX) Oct 30, 2006A new study suggests that in many parts of the American West, the grizzled, leathery rancher riding the range to take care of his cattle and make a buck is being replaced by wealthy "amenity" owners who fly in on weekends, fish in their private trout ponds, and often prefer roaming elk to Herefords. They don't much care whether or not the ranch turns a profit. And many of them think that wolves are neat. Saving The Global Farm One Crop At A Time 
Turin (AFP) Italy, Oct 27, 2006The future of healthy eating, and perhaps of eating of any kind, lies with small producers and the promotion of biodiversity, according to participants at a "slow food" gathering in northern Italy. At the biennial Terra Madre (Mother Earth) fair, visitors from all over the world show how they are working to preserve local food traditions and methods. Exhibitors at the five-day event that opened Thursday include nearly 300 so-called "sentinels," producers of little-known foodstuffs threatened with extinction. |
Africa Faces Catastrophe From Global Warming
London (AFP) Oct 28, 2006The African continent faces a catastrophe from global warming unless the international community acts quickly to fight it, a coalition of British environmental and development agencies warned Sunday. Africa, whose weather has traditionally been erratic, is the continent probably most vulnerable to climate change and the one that finds it most difficult to adapt, the coalition said in their report. New Genetic Analysis Forces Re-Draw Of Insect Family Tree 
Bath, UK (SPX) Oct 30, 2006The family tree covering almost half the animal species on the planet has been re-drawn following a genetic analysis which has revealed new relationships between four major groups of insects. Scientists have found that flies and moths are most closely related to beetles and more distantly related to bees and wasps, contrary to previous theory. Biodiversity Controls Ecological Services 
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2006Accelerating rates of species extinction pose problems for humanity, according to a comprehensive study headed by a biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara and published in the journal Nature this week. The groundbreaking statistical analysis demonstrates that the preservation of biodiversity - both the number and type of species - is needed to maintain ecological balance and "services." |
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