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Pacific Northwest forests could store more carbon, help address greenhouse issues

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7 hours ago | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed primarily for that purpose ...

Who wants to pay more for green electricity?

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10 hours ago | 2.3 / 5 (3) | 3

A research report in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution suggests that individuals prefer to be involved in a collective contribution to green electricity that involve everyone paying more, rather than h ...

Forest service carves new experimental forest out of Tongass NF

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16 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The USDA Forest Service established a new experimental forest in Alaska on June 25. The 25,000-acre Héen Latinee Experimental Forest is located inside the Tongass National Forest, and is easily accessible ...

Loss of coastal seagrass habitat accelerating globally

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Jun 29, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (15) | 0

An international team of scientists warns that accelerating losses of seagrasses across the globe threaten the immediate health and long-term sustainability of coastal ecosystems. The team has compiled and analyzed the first ...

In the warming West, climate most significant factor in fanning wildfires' flames

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Jun 26, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (37) | 2

The recent increase in area burned by wildfires in the Western United States is a product not of higher temperatures or longer fire seasons alone, but a complex relationship between climate and fuels that varies among different ...

Seaway's 50th anniversary soiled by invasive species

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Jun 26, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Fifty years ago Friday, President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II walked down a red carpet, climbed aboard a "floating palace" of a yacht named Britannia and ceremoniously sailed through the St. Lambert ...

Lawmakers, activists battle over mountaintop removal coal mining

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Jun 26, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

Coal industry advocates and environmentalists converged on Capitol Hill on Thursday at a congressional hearing on the impact of mountaintop removal mining on Appalachian streams and rivers.

Calif. board postpones decision on pollution tax

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Jun 26, 2009 | 1 / 5 (2) | 2

(AP) -- California regulators on Thursday delayed a decision on whether to implement the nation's first statewide carbon fee on utilities, oil refineries and other polluting industries.

Projected food, energy demands seen to outpace production

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Jun 25, 2009 | 4 / 5 (5) | 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the caloric needs of the planet expected to soar by 50 percent in the next 40 years, planning and investment in global agriculture will become critically important, according a new report released today ...

Great Lakes study's lack of clarity muddies issue of water levels

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Jun 24, 2009 | 2 / 5 (2) | 0

Last year's passage of the Great Lakes compact sent a thundering message to the rest of the country: Every drop of water in the world's largest freshwater system counts.

West Coast needs more research on fisheries, marine science, climate change

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Jun 24, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

According to a new report on regional marine research and information needs, the West Coast critically needs more research about fisheries, ocean health, coastal hazards and climate change - among other topics - to support ...

Pollution figures put Europe under spotlight

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Jun 23, 2009 | 1.8 / 5 (8) | 4

European policy makers must collaborate more closely in the fight against global warming, according to a leading expert who compiled the most detailed ever record of greenhouse gas emissions across the continent.

Waste water treatment plant mud used as 'green' fuel

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Jun 23, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 1

Catalan scientists have shown that using mud from waste water treatment plants as a partial alternative fuel can enable cement factories to reduce their CO2 emissions and comply with the Kyoto Protocol, as well as ...

Coral face 'a stormy future'

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Jun 23, 2009 | 4 / 5 (20) | 1

As global warming whips up more powerful and frequent hurricanes and storms, the world's coral reefs face increased disruption to their ability to breed and recover from damage.

Famous sloop 'Clearwater' will carry environmental sensor, sending data to Stevens' maritime lab

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Jun 23, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Later this week, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology will equip the sloop Clearwater with instrumentation that will provide real-time transmission of position, time, surface water temperature, salinity, and dissolved ...

Beyond CO2: Study reveals growing importance of HFCs in climate warming

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Jun 22, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (22) | 20

Some of the substances that are helping to avert the destruction of the ozone layer could increasingly contribute to climate warming, according to scientists from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory and their colleagues ...

Electrified reef closer to reality in Florida town

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Jun 22, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (4) | 1

A proposal to install an electrified artificial reef on the ocean floor off Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Fla., has won approval from a key federal agency, making it more likely the high-tech conservation project will get built.

'Green' fireworks may brighten eco-friendly 4th of July displays in future

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Jun 22, 2009 | 3.2 / 5 (5) | 1

With millions of people in the United States eagerly awaiting those July 4 fireworks displays — and our Canadian neighbors doing likewise for their July 1 Canada Day celebrations — here's a prospect for those ...