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First-Ever Carbon Map Shows Global Warming in Peru's Amazon
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Anti-Science Attitudes the Last Thing US Economy Needs: Nature Image via Salon Over the last few years, sound science has been under attack in disciplines focusing on everything from climate to vaccines. Yesterday, I excerpted an interview with a man whom many consider to be a champion of sound science -- Simon Singh deftly articulated the public relations crisis science faces in the modern age. So I thought I'd follow up on the topic today, after seeing that the esteemed scientific journal Nature publishe..
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The German Military is Freaked Out by Prospect of Peak Oil Image: Wikipedia, CC This Document Was Not for Public Consumption A leaked study by the German military reveals that the Bundeswehr is taking the possibility of peak oil (the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, leading to a gradual decline) very seriously. The authors of the study, led by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Will, forecast a "shifts in the global balance of power, of the formation of new relation..
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The Italian Mafia is Making Money with Wind Power Photo: The Godfather Cosa Nostra Goes Green It seems like the mob has discovered that there's money to be made with wind power in Italy. The mafia is up to its usual tricks: fraud, extortion, bribery, money laundering, etc. Police wiretaps even caught an alleged mafioso telling his wife: "Not one turbine blade will be built in Mazara unless I agree to it." Read on for more details.... Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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Pedal-Powered Washing Machine Gets Big Company Backing Photo via Gizmag Bike-powered washing machines aren't a new idea; however, at least one big appliance company is backing up the idea. Haier, an large electronics company out of China, showed off a human-powered washing machine concept at IFA 2010. It's fairly simple -- an exercise bike collects energy as the person pedals, and the charging battery then powers the washing machine. Supposedly 20 minutes of work is enough to wash one load of cloth..
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How California Can Save Nearly 326 Billion Gallons of Water On The Cheap Photo via PhillipC The Pacific Institute has released a new report titled "California's Next Million Acre-Feet: Saving Water, Energy and Money that outlines the steps the state can take to come up with its next one million acre-feet of water. All of it would be relatively easy and a whole lot cheaper than trying to drum up even more fresh water out of a dried-out state -- even cheaper than surface storage projects. The steps all involve existin..
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Will President Obama Put Free Solar Panels on the White House Roof? You'd put solar panels on your roof if they were free, but will President Obama. "It's complicated," the White House responded when Bill McKibben and 350.org asked if they'd install the panels Sungevity agreed to donate. To hopeful... Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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Last Time Arctic Was Ice Free Was 100,000+ Years Ago & That's Where We're Heading The Arctic Ocean one year ago to this date. Photo: US Geological Survey via flickr Perhaps you don't need more convincing that whether a given year sets a new record or not Arctic sea ice is on the decline, but maybe you do: Climate Progress highlights a study in Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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Dispatch from the Front Lines of a War on Science Photo via Wired You may have heard of Simon Singh long before his name rose to the top of the list of those championing sound science: He'd written two bestselling books, Fermat's Enigma and the Big Bang. Despite the wide range of subject matter contained in those books, the topic that ended up casting him into controversy was much different -- a seemingly benign newspaper article about some of the pitfalls of alternative medicine. He ended up ..
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Small Networks of Marine Reserves Better Than Single Large Reserves for Preserving Fish & Coral photo: Johnny Bahru via flickr. Large marine reserves aren't working to protect fish or coral--and therefore fishermen's livelihoods in the long term--and we should collectively shift towards more small reserves with fishing allowed in between. That's the word from the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health's Peter Sale. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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Birds Killed by Canadian Tar Sands Projects At Least Seven Times Greater Than Official Stats Show photo: Ramanathan Kathiresa via flickr Another study detailing the negative environmental effects of continued tar sands development in Canada, and how independent review finds much greater impact that either the industry or government cares to acknowledge: The latest issue of The Wilson Journal of Ornithology has published a report showing that annual bird mortality in the toxic tailing ponds around tar sands project i... Read the full story o..
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BP's Deepwater Horizon Accident Report Disperses Blame, Glosses Over Big Questions BP has just released it's report on the events leading up to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent record-breaking oil spill. As was expected, BP attempts to spread blame across all the companies involved and says "a complex and interlinked series of mechanical failures, human judgements, engineering design, operation implementation and team... Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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Europe's Largest Onshore Wind Farm to Expand to 539 Megawatts Photo: Flickr, CC Adding 3MW Turbines Europe's largest onshore wind farm, which is located in East Renfrewshire in Scotland, is about to get even bigger. ScottishPower Renewables is planning to add 75 turbines to the existing 140, increasing the capacity of the wind farm from the current 322 megawatts to 539 megawatts. Read on for more details.... Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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China Beat US in Offshore Wind, Europe Still Trounces Everyone Else in Solar Power photo: Adam Tinworth via flickr Two new illustrations about how the US has stiff competition around the world in renewable energy: New York Times reports on how China has beaten the United States in building the first major offshore wind farm outside of Europe; Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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Similar Tropical Forests Store Much Different Amounts of Carbon: New Report photo: Lori via flickr While we've just learned that over 80% of new farmland in the tropics came at the expense of forests, another new study shows us that when it comes to calculating how much carbon tropical forests store, variable on the ground conditions make estimating how much sequestration potential forests have more tricky than thought. In fact, for some areas this has been overestimated ... Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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80% of New Farmland in Tropics Carved From Forests Between 1980-2000 - Land the Size of Alaska Cleared photo: Teacher Traveler via flickr More than 80% of new farmland in the tropics cultivated over the last two decades of the 20th century was carved out of tropical forests, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Between 1980 and 2000, globally the amount of Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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Invasive Quagga Mussels Could Eat Lake Michigan Ecosystem to Point of Collapse photo: Wikipedia Forget about the potential damage by invasive Asian carp, another invasive species, the quagga mussel is likely to destroy the Lake Michigan ecosystem long before the bottom-feeding fish do. That's the word of Michigan Tech biologist W. Charles Kerfoot, who says the proliferating mussels are eating up so much phytoplankton that, through an interesting chain of events, Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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Wisconsin Requiring Electronics Manufacturers to Pay for E-Waste Photo via zappowbang Lawmakers have started taking a stronger stance with electronics manufacturers, requiring them to accept more responsibility for the end-of-life handling of the gadgets they produce. The recent noise in New York between city and state officials and manufacturers helped set the stage for other states to push companies into pulling their weight in the recycling of electronics -- the long-term effect of which cou... Read the f..
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The Stylish Watt-Lite Creates An Energy Use Infographic in Real Time (Photos) All images via the Interactive Institute - www.tii.se "A regular torch shows what is hidden in the dark, the Watt-Lite shows the hidden use of electricity", this is the essential purpose of a set of three lights created by designers at Stolkholm's Interactive Institute. The Watt-Lite is a rather inventive form of smart meter that finds a straightforward way of demonstrating how much energy a building is using in the style of real ... Read the f..
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Ask Pablo: Is My Smart Meter Going To Kill Me? Image Source: Juverna Dear Pablo: I have been hearing a lot of controversy around smart meters. Are the additional radio waves emitted by them a danger to my family A "smart meter" is an electric or gas meter that electronically transmits meter readings to the utility. Smart meters are only a small component often touted, but rarely understood "Smart Grid." Recently smart meters have been getting a lot more attention, primarily due to a small,..
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First-Ever Carbon Map Shows Global Warming in Peru's Amazon This image shows an area of road building and development adjacent to primary forest in red tones, and secondary forest regrowth in green tones. Credit: Carnegie Institution. You can see the effects of global warming in a new high-resolution map that shows carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land-use practices in Peru's Amazon. The maps were created with satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plo..
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