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• FAO-EC project to promote climate-smart farming

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 124
  Malawi, Vietnam and Zambia will benefit from collaborative effort FAO | 16 January 2012 Farmers participating in an FAO land and water management project in Guthi, India, check a new drip irrigation system   FAO and the European Commission announced today a new €5.3 million project aimed at ...
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• Greedy Lying Bastards: US filmmaker attacks oil industry

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 124
  Craig Rosebraughs new documentary highlights the influence, deceit and corruption of fossil fuel industry by Leo Hickman | guardian.co.uk | 20 January 2012 ";" alt="" /> Provocative, frank and impossible to ignore. And thats just the title Craig Rosebraugh , a US filmmaker and ...
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• Gas no good to bridge coal and renewables, says study

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 124
  The amount of greenhouse gases released by unconventional gas drilling exceeds that of oil or coal, an American study says in contradiction of some claims made by Australias growing coal-seam gas industry Ben Cubby | Sydney Morning Herald | January 21, 2012 Cornell University researchers analysed the ...
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• China report spells out "grim" climate change risks

  
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  Chris Buckley Reuters 17 Jan 12;(Reuters) - Global warming threatens Chinas march to prosperity by cutting crops, shrinking rivers and unleashing more droughts and floods, says the governments latest assessment of climate change, projecting big shifts in how the nation feeds itself.The warnings are carried in the ...
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• Cambodia: Release peaceful protesters detained over forced eviction – IEWY News

  
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  Cambodia : Release peaceful protesters detained over forced eviction IEWY News The Cambodian authorities must immediately release 24 women and six children detained yesterday while peacefully protesting their forced eviction. The group of 30 were arrested while protesting last weeks violent forced eviction of some 300 ...
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• Fish: this is your brain on carbon emissions

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 839
  In the 1960s, many people learned that “acid” (the drug LSD) made them behave quite strangely. Our emissions of CO 2 are causing marine life to experience the effects of a much different kind of acid, but research is showing that it may also affect the behavior of fish (the vertebrate group, not the homophonic ...
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• Climate and the culture war

  
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  The attempt by Newt Gingrich to cover his tracks on climate change has been one of the shabbier little episodes of the 2012 presidential campaign. His forthcoming sequel to “A Contract with the Earth” was to feature a chapter by Katharine Hayhoe, a young professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas Tech University. ...
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• One company behind U.S.s top three biggest greenhouse gas emitters

  
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  The Atlanta-based Southern company owns the top three biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. according to recent data released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Jeremy Hance | mongabay.com | January 16, 2012 Three of Southerns coal-fired plants—two in Georgia and one ...
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• Science education group decides its time to tackle climate change

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 839
  The National Center for Science Education has been defending the teaching of evolution since before Edwards vs. Aguilllard , the 1987 Supreme Court decision that declared the teaching of creationism an unconstitutional promotion of religion. Although its primary focus is on supporting teachers and students by ...
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• Malaria kills 98 Cambodians, down 35% in 2011 – China Daily

  
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  Malaria kills 98 Cambodians , down 35% in 2011 China Daily PHNOM PENH - Malaria had killed 98 Cambodians in 2011, a decline of 35 percent from 151 deaths in a year earlier, said a senior health official on Monday. Last year, some 62690 cases of malaria had been reported, said Char Meng Chuor, the director of ... and ...
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• Droughts a bigger worry than flash floods: Vivian

  
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  Features to alleviate flooding woes should store water too, he saysKezia Toh Straits Times 16 Jan 12;DROUGHTS are more worrying than flash floods, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan said yesterday, as Singapore approaches the dry spell of the North-east Monsoon next month.Changing ...
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• German funds plan $2-bln Oman solar project

  
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  Private investment funds Terra Nex of Switzerland and Germanys Middle East Best Select (MEBS) plan to build 400 megawatts (MW) of solar power generating capacity in Oman, the European investors said on Sunday Reuters | Jan 15, 2012 Terra Nex, a wealth management company specializing in Middle East ...
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• With $116 Million Pledged, Ecuador Moves Forward With Plan to Protect Rainforest

  
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  After receiving pledges totaling more than its goal of $100 million by a year-end deadline, the Ecuadorian government last week announced that it would move forward with the so-called Yasuni ITT Initiative, an innovative plan to leave untapped more than 900 million barrels of crude oil beneath a pristine Amazonian ...
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• Power Plants Accounted for 72 Percent Of Greenhouse Gases Reported in 2010

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 124
  Power plants emitted 2.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e) in 2010, 72.3 percent of reported emissions nationwide, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency Jan. 11 By Andrew Childers and Avery Fellow | Daily Environment Report™ in Bloomberg News | January 12, ...
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• An important drive to eliminating carbon emissions in Africa

  
  Newstime Africa — Authority: 117
  It seems countries in Africa have been given a brilliant opportunity to improve on their carbon credentials by the emergence of an amazing product that is set to eliminate carbon emissions improving... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Newly Observed Criegee Molecule Could Be the Key to Cooling Climate Change

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 693
  Researchers in the United Kingdom have finally been able to nail down and measure the impacts of the elusive Criegee biradical (or Criegee intermediate), an atmospheric molecule that could be one of the keys to stopping advanced climate change. The mysterious molecule forms when ozone reacts with an alkene – the ...
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• IRENA Releases Renewable Energy Profiles for Pacific Countries

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 124
  The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has released a publication titled “Renewable Energy Country Profiles: Pacific.” The country profiles consider where renewable energy can contribute significantly to combating climate change Climate Change Policy & Practice | 12 January 2011 The ...
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• FAO Guidebook Highlights Carbon Finance Options for Smallholder Farmers

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 124
  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has published a guidebook titled "Climate Change Mitigation Finance for Smallholder Agriculture - A guide book to harvesting soil carbon sequestration benefits," which underscores the role of agriculture in global climate change mitigation efforts and describes ...
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• World’s largest investors issue guidelines for company action on climate change

  
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  The world’s largest investors have issued a document detailing their expectations of how companies should approach responding to climate change Institutional Asset Manager | 12/01/2012 The document provides a unified global investor voice on the issue for the first time, in response to concerns ...
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• Pollution spreading over the ocean from China.

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 839
  If a group of scientists announced that reducing emissions of some pollutants would prevent global warming, it wouldn’t make headlines—we’ve been hearing that for years when the pollutant is carbon dioxide. However, if they added that those reduced emissions would also prevent millions of premature deaths per ...
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