News tagged with emission cuts

Global CEOs back greenhouse gas cuts, carbon caps

(AP) -- A global summit of business leaders urged governments to order steep and mandatory cuts in greenhouse gases Tuesday, favoring a cap-and-trade system instead of a tax to set a market price for carbon ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Cuts in greenhouse gas emissions would save Arctic ice, reduce sea level rise

The threat of global warming can still be greatly diminished if nations cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases by 70 percent this century, according to a new analysis. While global temperatures would ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (90) | comments 15




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Cutting our carbon footprint

Roofing materials that double as solar panels and can also moderate the temperature of buildings are among the next-generation building products being developed at UNSW.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created 14 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Big trees face 'dire future'

Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future according to James Cook University’s Distinguished Professor William Laurance.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fresh city tomatoes, any time

Why not produce lettuce, beans and tomatoes where most of the consumers are to be found: in the city? The flat roofs of many buildings are well-suited for growing vegetables. Rooftop greenhouses can also make ...

Biology / Other

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New integrated building model may improve fish farming operations

Today's "locavore" movement with its emphasis on eating more locally-produced food is a natural fit for fruits and vegetables in nearly every region, but few entrepreneurs have dared to apply the concept to ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Progress and promise in DIAL LIDAR

For climatologists and environmental policy makers who need to determine the flux of greenhouse gases (GHG), there are three paramount questions: Where is it, how much is there, and how is it moving? A new ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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.

Space & Earth / Environment

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

A 'natural' solution for transportation

As the United States transitions away from a primarily petroleum-based transportation industry, a number of different alternative fuel sources—ethanol, biodiesel, electricity and hydrogen—have each ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 22

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 ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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

Renowned physicist invents microscope that can peer at living brain cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since scientists began studying the brain, they’ve wanted to get a better look at what was going on. Researchers have poked and prodded and looked at dead cells under electron microscopes, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Filmmaker sounds alarm over ocean of plastic

On Midway atoll in the North Pacific, dozens of young albatross lie dead on the sand, their stomachs filled with cigarette lighters, toy soldiers and other small plastic objects their parents have mistaken ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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