Sky today launched a three-year campaign with WWF to help save one billion trees in the Amazon.
The campaign, Sky Rainforest Rescue, aims to protect rainforest covering over three million hectares in the state of Acre, Brazil to help combat climate change and preserve the unique habitat and species of the Amazon.
The world’s rainforests are [...]

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Could plants save us from the rising carbon dioxide levels from human emissions and greenhouse gases and save us from the Climate Crunch? 

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Is the Environmental Protection Agency preparing to slap a “cow tax” on bovines for their contribution to global warming?
The agency says no. But in recent weeks, farmers and livestock ranchers have flooded the EPA with letters warning of catastrophic consequences if such a tax was imposed.
“If President-elect [Barack] Obama tries to include farmers in some [...]

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U.S. emissions of gases blamed for warming the planet rose 1.4 percent last year as acute weather pushed consumers to crank up heaters and air conditioners and cut output from hydropower generation, the federal Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.
The rise in the pollution level made President elect Barack Obama’s goal of cutting U.S. greenhouse [...]

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Ambitious targets to cut the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least one fifth in just over a decade were proposed today by the government’s Climate Change Committee.
The reductions would be achieved by transforming the way electricity is produced and redesigning buildings, appliances and cars.
If accepted by ministers, the changes could see as much as [...]

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Barack Obama’s pledge to work to reduce emissions sharply by 2020 is a “huge signal” of encouragement to countries negotiating a new climate pact, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Wednesday.
The U.S. president-elect said the United States would engage vigorously in climate change talks when he is president, and he pledged [...]

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When industry began using NF3 in high-tech manufacturing, it was hailed as a way to fight global warming. But new research shows that this gas has 17,000 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide and is rapidly increasing in the atmosphere – and that’s turning an environmental success story into a public relations disaster.
Hypothetical question: [...]

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Levels of a powerful greenhouse gas are four times as high as previously thought, according to new measurements released on Thursday.
New analytical techniques show that about 5,400 metric tons of nitrogen trifluoride are in the atmosphere, with amounts increasing by about 11 percent per year.
Ray Weiss of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, [...]

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GreenFuel Technologies on Tuesday is expected to announce what few in the algae fuel business can claim–a paying customer.
The Cambridge, Mass.-based company detailed a multi-year deal worth $92 million to build greenhouses that grow algae, which can be harvested for vegetable oil to make biodiesel or to make animal feed.
In the greenhouses, the algae will [...]

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Unless carbon emissions are reduced at a rate of three per cent a year, the likelihood of significant and irreversible impacts of climate change will rise, according to a new report.
Scientists at the Met Office’s Hadley Centre for climate change research have advised of the pace of emissions reductions necessary to keep temperatures from rising [...]

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