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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:02 PM PST
Smog Exposure During Pregnancy Tied to Tinier Babies
U.S. News & World Report - Feb 6, 2013
WEDNESDAY,
Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnant women exposed to particulate air
pollution -- commonly known as smog -- have a significantly greater risk
of having a baby with a low birth weight, according to a large new
international study.
Pollution has shrunk Indian newbornsTimes of
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 01:14 PM PST
Climate Action Programme
Poll: Americans back climate change regulation, not taxes
EurekAlert (press release) - 3 hours ago
DURHAM, N.C. -- Now that President Obama has put climate change
back on the table in his second inaugural address, a new national poll
finds growing public support for regulating greenhouse gas emissions and
requiring utilities to switch to
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 08:53 AM PST
NPR
Blizzard alert: Northeast snowstorm could be among the worst of all time
NBCNews.com - 1 hour ago
Millions
of Americans brace for a massive storm that threatens to pummel the
Northeast and dump more than 2 feet of snow on parts of New England.
Winter Storm Warning Issued for FridaySalamanca Press (blog)
Northeast Braces For Powerful Winter Storm,
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 07:29 AM PST
Climate change threatens food security
ABC Online - 5 hours ago
SARAH CLARKE: With climate scientists warning of a long term global
warming trend, the forecast across the Asia Pacific region is one of
greater variability.
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 07:23 AM PST
Environmental Leader
Head of IMF: climate change is 'the greatest economic challenge of the
21st ...
Mongabay.com - Feb 6, 2013
Climate change not debt or austerity is "the greatest economic challenge
of the 21st Century," according to Christine Lagarde, the head of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF).
"Future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 07:07 AM PST
Columbus Dispatch
A Cleaner Way to Use Coal Kevin Bullis
MIT Technology Review - 9 hours ago
In ordinary coal plants, coal is pulverized to make a fine powder and then burned in air to produce steam to drive turbines.
OSU process gets 'clean coal' energyColumbus Dispatch
New Coal Technology Harnesses Energy Without Burning, Nears Pilot-Scale ...Science Daily (
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 06:44 AM PST
Areva Studies Asia Offshore Wind Projects as Turbines Get Bigger
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
Areva, Vestas Wind Systems A/S and Siemens AG aim to expand in Asia as China plans 5,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2015.
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 06:19 AM PST
Solar farm eyed for closed landfill
The Daily News of Newburyport - 5 hours ago
Mayor
Thatcher Kezer and city councilors this week confirmed there is
interest in using the former landfill at the intersection of Route 150
and South Hunt Road for solar power, which could bring a considerable amount of revenue into Amesbury. But ...
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 06:17 AM PST
Nanoantenna Solar Cell Efficiency Can Blow Silicon Out Of The Water
CleanTechnica - 5 hours ago
Today, conventional silicon solar cells are 10% to 20% efficient (this
means that they generate 100 watts to 200 watts per square metre of
cells, respectively).
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:40 AM PST
Changing the Conversation on Climate Change. Bloomberg
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:35 AM PST
Farm Futures
Legislators' Climate Change Panel Catches Ag Industry's Attention
Farm Futures - 6 hours ago
Though
it's a controversial topic, U.S. Rep Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and U.S.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., stand firmly behind climate change as a
risk to the country - and now National Farmers Union President Roger
Johnson announced his ...
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:34 AM PST
Media Let Climate Change Off The Hook In Fishing Debate
Media Matters for America (blog) - 17 hours ago
As
government scientists and policymakers attempt to safeguard
disappearing populations of Atlantic Cod off of the New England coast
with stricter catch limits, state and national media continue to ignore
the role of anthropogenic climate change in ...
Climate change
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:32 AM PST
Straits Times
Amazon forest more resilient to climate change than feared - study
Reuters - 18 hours ago
The boost to growth from CO2, the main gas from burning fossil fuels
blamed for causing climate change, was likely to exceed damaging effects
of rising temperatures this century such as drought, it said.
Climate science: Global warming and tropical
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:31 AM PST
MiamiHerald.com
Report outlines climate change options for Obama administration
MiamiHerald.com - 14 hours ago
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Resources Institute, a think tank that focuses on the environment and
socioeconomic development, looks at the technical and legal authority
President Barack Obama could use to build on the pledge in his inaugural
address to address climate change.
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:12 AM PST
PennEnergy (press release)
US Moves Toward Near-Zero Emission Coal-Fired Power Plant
Yahoo! News (blog) - 19 hours ago
The
U.S. Department of Energy announced this week that Phase II of an
agreement with FutureGen Industrial Alliance has begun, taking the
country one step closer to making commercial-scale carbon capture and
storage technology -- and dramatically
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:09 AM PST
Finance and Commerce
Minnesota Power to convert coal plant to gas
Duluth News Tribune - Jan 30, 2013
Minnesota Power announced Wednesday it will convert its coal-fired power
plant in Hoyt Lakes to natural gas and close one of three coal units at
its Taconite Harbor plant on the North Shore as the utility continues a
move away from carbon dioxode ...
Minnesota
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:08 AM PST
San Francisco Chronicle
US power plant emissions drop as coal loses favour
Sydney Morning Herald - 19 hours ago
In
its second-annual accounting of greenhouse gases, the US Environmental
Protection Agency today released details of emissions from about 8,000
factories, power plants and refineries. Two Southern Co. coal-fired power facilities topped the list ...
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 09:07 AM PST
Clean Energy News (blog)
NAACP Releases Coal Blooded Report and Toolkit
Clean Energy News (blog) - 2 hours ago
Coal Blooded systematically studies 378 coal-fired power plants
nationwide and evaluates each plant in terms of its environmental
justice performance - how the plant affects low-income communities and
communities of color. This same type of analysis is ...
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:24 AM PST
MIT Technology Review
A Manmade Island to Store Wind Energy
MIT Technology Review - 20 hours ago
When the wind
farm produces excess energy for the local electricity grid, such as
off-peak times in the overnight hours, the island will store the energy
and release it later during peak times.
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:23 AM PST
Wind Power Breaks Records In Spain — Produces More Electricity Than Any
...
CleanTechnica - 4 hours ago
Denmark, the US, and Germany aren't the only countries breaking wind
power records these days. Spain is also a notable leader seeing strong
wind power growth. In fact, it just saw its wind farms produce more
electricity than any other source for a 3 ...
Spanish Wind Farms'
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:21 AM PST
Every Two Megawatts of Wind Power in Your County Create One Job and Make ...Motherboard (blog)
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:20 AM PST
KOKH FOX25
Novel Designs Are Taking Wind Power to the Next Level Kevin Bullis
MIT Technology Review - 8 hours ago
The technology is part of a trend that's made wind power almost as cheap
as fossil fuels. In 1991, wind power cost 15 cents per kilowatt hour.
Wind War in OklahomaKOKH FOX25
Wind-farm efficiency examined at UWWyoming Business Report
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:16 AM PST
World Resources Institute
How Climate Change Impacts America's Energy Infrastructure
World Resources Institute - 15 hours ago
As we've seen recently with Hurricane Sandy, epic drought, and
wildfires, climate change visibly impacts lives and livelihoods
throughout the United States.
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:11 AM PST
ThinkProgress
IMF Chief: 'Unless We Take Action On Climate Change, Future Generations Will ...
ThinkProgress - 13 hours ago
At
the World Economic Forum in Davos, she said, “the real wild card in the
pack” of economic pivot points is “Increasing vulnerability from
resource scarcity and climate change, with the potential for major social and economic disruption.”
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:09 AM PST
MPBN News
New England climate change results 'dramatic'
Eagle-Tribune - 7 hours ago
“No doubt we've seen some very important changes to the ecological
system from climate change,” said Rick Wahle, a research associate
professor from the University of Maine.
Report: Climate change affects region's wildlifeSan Francisco Chronicle
Report: Climate Change Causing Rapid
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:08 AM PST
Climate change means catastrophe in UK, not café culture says professor
Telegraph.co.uk - 59 minutes ago
Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research, said Government and local authorities are failing to
grasp the risks to Britain for global warming.
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Posted: 06 Feb 2013 05:06 AM PST
Report: Climate change could devastate agriculture
USA TODAY - 15 hours ago
A
comprehensive USDA study concludes rising temperatures could cost
farmers millions as they battle new pests, faster weed growth and get
smaller yields as climate change continues. farming. The country was battered by the worst drought to hit in more ...
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