China will proactively introduce a set of new taxation policies designed to preserve the environment, including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, according to a senior official with the Ministry of Finance.
Feb 19th, 2013
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A new report finds that proactive investments increasing efficient water use and re-use will both address growing problems associated with drought, flooding, and contamination and create jobs in a wide range of professions.
Feb 19th, 2013
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Air samples collected in Finland beginning during the Cold War may help unlock answers to climate change, according to researchers at Clarkson University.
Feb 18th, 2013
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Rapid changes in the Arctic ecosystem from surface to depth during the ice minimum in the summer of 2012.
Feb 18th, 2013
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The widespread reduction in Arctic sea ice is causing significant changes to the balance of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This is shown in a new study conducted by researchers from Lund University in Sweden, among others.
Feb 18th, 2013
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Yeast research takes a step toward production of alternatives to gasoline.
Feb 17th, 2013
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Fast and efficient biologically inspired catalyst could someday make fuel cells cheaper.
Feb 17th, 2013
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A Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory physicist details the roadmap and challenges ahead.
Feb 17th, 2013
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Reducing CO2 emissions may not be enough to curb global warming, according to scientists at Stanford University. The solution, they say, could also require developing carbon-negative technologies that remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Feb 17th, 2013
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General Electric has surpassed Danish wind power company Vestas to become the world's biggest wind turbine manufacturer.
Feb 17th, 2013
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Statistics is an important tool in sorting through information on how human activities are affecting the climate system, as well as how climate change affects natural and human systems, according to a Penn State statistician.
Feb 16th, 2013
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An Ohio State University statistician says that the natural human difficulty with grasping probabilities is preventing Americans from dealing with climate change.
Feb 16th, 2013
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A Stanford economist pitches open-source software for evaluating potential offshore wind turbine sites for optimal energy production and minimal disruption of other marine industry.
Feb 16th, 2013
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In our ongoing quest for alternative energy sources, researchers are looking more to plants that grow in the wild for use in biofuels, plants such as switchgrass. However, attempts to 'domesticate' wild-growing plants have a downside, as it could make the plants more susceptible to any number of plant viruses.
Feb 16th, 2013
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An On-Line Electric Vehicle (OLEV) that can charge during travel will be put into service for the first time in the world on normal roads.
Feb 15th, 2013
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Scientists have introduced a new metal-organic framework compound that absorbs CO2 and then releases it upon exposure to sunlight.
Feb 15th, 2013
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In a sense, there is no such thing as climate change denial. No one denies that climate changes (in fact, the most common climate myth is the argument that past climate change is evidence that current global warming is also natural). Then what is being denied? Quite simply, the scientific consensus that humans are disrupting the climate. A more appropriate term would be "consensus denial".
Feb 15th, 2013
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A team of researchers in Boston University's Department of Earth and Environment have developed a new, bottom-up model for measuring on-road vehicle emissions. The model will be used to more accurately assess the effects of vehicle travel and traffic congestion on greenhouse gas emissions.
Feb 15th, 2013
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