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• New report: boreal forests contain more carbon than tropical forest per hectare

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  A new report states that boreal forests store nearly twice as much carbon as tropical forests per hectare: a fact which researchers say should make the conservation of boreal forests as important as tropical in climate change negotiations. The report from the Canadian Boreal Initiative and the Boreal Songbird ...
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• New System Using Microbes to Convert CO2 to Biofuels in a Single-Step Process

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 136
  These microbes feed on solar power and synthesize both the alkane and olefin molecules. Although the hydrocarbon fuels have only been produced in lab quantities, the company plans a pilot demonstration for 2011.
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• New Ocean Carbon Sink Blooms as Antarctic Ice Retreats Rapidly

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  photo: Wikipedia . There arent too many good un-anticipated consequences when it comes to climate change, but heres one: Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey have discovered that in areas of open water left exposed by rapid ice melting around the Antarctic Peninsula, large new blooms of phytoplankton are ...
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• Syngas With Carbon Capture at Cook Inlet

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 741
  As the nation looks for ways to burn coal without producing so much carbon dioxide, developers, researchers, and environmentalists are looking at underground coal gasification, or U.C.G., with cautious optimism.
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• How to restore a tropical rain forest

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 113
  Here’s a little story for you about how a casual chat over a glass of wine (or many) can lead to great scientific endeavours. A few years ago I was sitting in the living room of my good friends Noel Preece and Penny van Oosterzee in Darwin chatting about life, the universe, and everything. They rather casually ...
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• Groups Push U.S. and China on Carbon Capture and Storage Technology

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 741
  Three prominent American research organizations that are pushing for greater cooperation between the U.S. and China on developing carbon capture technology and the creation of a market for carbon.
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• The World’s Largest Carbon Capture and Storage Project

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 636
  Chevron Australia awarded a $400 million contract last month to General Electric (GE) for the world’s largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project off the West Australia coast’s Gorgon natural gas field. Chevron estimates the CCS project will sequester four times more carbon than any other project. The ...
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• Can Children Change The World - Yes they can

  
  Energy Tough Love Blog — Authority: 124
  If everyone did this the world would be a better place.  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-green-schools-03-nov03,0,5196889.story Composting at schools: Students get into the act In Oak Park, Villa Park and Naperville, students begin putting their food scraps in compost bins ...
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• Mountaineer will advance CCS research, create jobs

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 124
  Last week, American Electric Power and energy research center Battelle announced a project to capture as much as 110,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually at the Mountaineer plant near New Haven, W.Va., The Columbus Dispatch reported. In August, The Dispatch...
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• Palm oil lobby group launches public relations push to counter environmental complaints

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  A report released by World Growth International in late September claimed that environmentalists are waging a “morally indefensible” campaign against palm oil. The report accurately highlighted the high productivity of oil palm — the worlds highest-yielding commercial oilseed — and noted that the crop has ...
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• Without reinstatement of key provision, REDD could subsidize large-scale forest destruction

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  The elimination of a key provision from the negotiating text for the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in developing countries (REDD) mechanism could turn the proposed climate change mitigation scheme into a subsidy for large-scale conversion of natural forests to industrial plantations, warned ...
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• Cutting emissions may be easier without the focus on coal

  
  Eideard — Authority: 490
  Sequestration of CO₂ depends more on cost than source.
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• City and County Launch Weatherization Program

  
  Sierra Club Allegheny Group — Authority: 125
  With $20 million from the federal 2009 stimulus package, Mayor Ravenstahl and County Executive Dan Onorato announced on October 30 a progam “ to expand weatherization services and increase energy efficiency in 2,900 low-income residences during the next 30 months. ” The announcement coincided nicely with ...
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• Protected Trust Deeds: A Resolution for Personal Insolvency

  
  GetStudentLoanNow.com — Authority: 142
  A Protected Trust Deed can be used by individuals or by business owners such as sole traders and those in business partnerships. These individuals must be insolvent and they will generally be experiencing pressure from creditors. PTDs can be used by property owners who wish to avoid the very real possibility of ...
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• Protected Trust Deeds: A Resolution for Personal Insolvency

  
  GetStudentLoanNow.com — Authority: 142
  A Protected Trust Deed can be used by individuals or by business owners such as sole traders and those in business partnerships. These individuals must be insolvent and they will generally be experiencing pressure from creditors. PTDs can be used by property owners who wish to avoid the very real possibility of ...
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• Protected Trust Deeds: A Resolution for Personal Insolvency

  
  GetStudentLoanNow.com — Authority: 142
  A Protected Trust Deed can be used by individuals or by business owners such as sole traders and those in business partnerships. These individuals must be insolvent and they will generally be experiencing pressure from creditors. PTDs can be used by property owners who wish to avoid the very real possibility of ...
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• Carbon Capture, and Sequestration – CO2 Burping can kill You.

  
  Bleeding edge blog — Authority: 128
  When we think of CCS  perhaps we should also recall the element of CO2 accidental release. No CCS or CCSS technology can assure us that the stored CO2 will not suddenly arrive back up at the atmosphere unannounced and cause serious havoc… and loss of Life. Take the following sudden mass death through CO2 release ...
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• CATEGORY - CARBON CAPTURE

  
  Junkk Male RE:View — Authority: 133
  A new one that looks to be topical. As always, share and share alike. Articles The Register - Brown gov will make big commitment to carbon capture - Big as in small - Nowt like backing a winner! Greenbang - Carbon capture as much use a chocolate teapot: Greenpeace - Bless Guardian - Can technology save ...
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• Westporters Take Stand on Global Warming

  
  CT Green Scene — Authority: 123
  by Monique Bosch Westport residents ignored torrential rain and headed for Compo beach at dawn Saturday, October 24th, to participate in the International Day of Climate Action. It marked the largest day of environmental action in history. Westport was only...
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• Forest Carbon 101: How Much Carbon Does a Tree Sequester?

  
  Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) — Authority: 636
  tags: environment , forest ecology , trees , forestry , carbon sequestration , global warming , climate change , Nature Conservancy , streaming video You know that trees store carbon, but what does that really mean? How much carbon does the tree outside your window store, and how does that compare to the ...
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