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Biofuel Development Shifting From Soil To Sea.
sciencedaily.com — Bell-bottoms… Designer jeans… Disco… Big hair… Gas shortages. Some icons of the 1970s are emblazoned in the memories of those old enough to remember. A few styles, to the dismay of many, have come back in vogue—oil-related crises among them. More… (Environment)
Inventor: Geo-Engineer a Worldwide Refrigerator Using Oceans
cleantechnica.com — Bailing out the entire human race might turn out to be cheaper than bailing out Wall Street: Spray gigatons of seawater into the air, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, and let Mother Nature do the rest, suggests inventor Ron Acer in a patent petition for “a colossal refrigeration system with a 100,000-fold performance multiplier.”More… (Environment)
Architectural Wind: A Cleaner Way to Keep the City Running
nytimes.com — A new building with affordable rents in the Bronx will be powered partly by 10 wind turbines, which should cut its utility bills for common areas in half.More… (Environment)
Remember all that "NONTOXIC" coal ash sludge?
cnn.com — When it comes to big money industry disaster spills, the media takes a "safe until proven toxic" attitude contrary to common sense. The coal ash sludge which has devastated the Tennessee River now shows to have elevated levels of arsenic. EPA says water safe, but arsenic at levels "considered harmful to humans"... so the H2O is safe but harmfulMore… (Environment)
Lead for car batteries poisons an African town
msnbc.msn.com — First, it took the animals. Goats fell silent and refused to stand up. Chickens died in handfuls, then en masse. Street dogs disappeared. Then it took the children.More… (Environment)
Vatican Blames Mens Infertility On Female Urine
theage.com.au — The contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, according to a report in a Vatican newspaper. The pill has had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of the female hormone oestrogen into nature through female urine.More… (Environment)
The Carbon Footprint of Nuclear War
guardian.co.uk — A recent US study that compares the environmental costs of developing various power sources found that almost 700m tonnes of CO2 would be released into the Earth's atmosphere by even the smallest nuclear conflict.More… (Environment)
Coffee Beans As The Next Great Auto Fuel?
consumerenergyreport.com — Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno, researching the prospect of extracting oil from used coffee grounds report that the process is not that difficult.More… (Environment)
Coral growth in decline at Great Barrier Reef
msnbc.msn.com — The rate at which corals absorb calcium from seawater to calcify their hard skeletons — and thus grow — has declined dramatically in the last two decades and signs point to manmade greenhouse gas emissions as the culprit, according to a study of samples from Australia's Great Barrier Reef.More… (Environment)
California delta islands may be lost
sfgate.com — Fewer structures have been more critical to California's development than the 1,100 miles of earthen levees that help funnel water through the 1,300-square-mile confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. But the levees are in trouble, experts say. Rising seas, earthquakes, subsiding land and floods pose dire threats.More… (Environment)
Green Inc.: Offsets in the Air in San Francisco
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com — This spring, travelers entering San Francisco International Airport will see a new type of kiosk at check-in -- one offering carbon offsets for those who wish to counter the greenhouse-gas emissions from their trip.More… (Environment)
Pond Scum Could Become San Diego's Green Gold
voiceofsandiego.org — San Diego, already home to dozens of companies involved in solar or wind energy, would be a major player in the nation's multi-trillion-dollar energy economy if a group of local researchers succeed in turning algae into a commercially viable transportation fuel, something they think they can do within a decade.More… (Environment)
Canada's forests now add to, not subtract from, climate woes
chicagotribune.com — The country's 1.2 million square miles of trees -- dubbed the "lungs of the planet" by ecologists because they account for more than 7 percent of Earth's total forest lands -- could always be depended upon to suck in vast quantities of carbon dioxide, cleansing the world of much of the harmful heat-trapping gas. Not anymore.More… (Environment)
Central American Chewing Gum Tappers Go Organic
guardian.co.uk — Just as it was beginning to look as if the chicle industry would fade away altogether, Mexico's chicleros may be on the threshold of a comeback: they are about to launch their own brand of certified organic chewing gum.More… (Environment)
Dungeness Crabs: California's Deadliest Catch
npr.org — Dungeness crabs are not only a winter treat; they are also the most valuable catch on the West Coast. More than 400 boats ply the waves in the early winter and lay their crab pots off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington.More… (Environment)
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