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01/25/12--16:05: Carbon dioxide is 'driving fish crazy'! (chan 2234340)

In their latest paper, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, Prof. Munday and colleagues report world-first evidence that high CO2 levels in sea water disrupts a key brain receptor in fish, causing marked changes in their behaviour and sensory ability.

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01/25/12--20:12: US must stop promoting biofuels to tackle world hunger (chan 2234340)

America must stop promoting the production of biofuels if there is to be any real progress in addressing spiking global food prices and famine, such as seen in the Horn of Africa, an authoritative thinktank has warned.

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01/25/12--20:24: European Commission Aims to Cut Food Waste 50 Percent by 2020 (chan 2234340)

Europe may be facing much larger problem than what to do with its food waste. But being pushed through the European parliament is a bill that will have widespread significance. That is because food waste accounts for one of the largest sources of overall waste going to landfills. Per year, the average person throws away 300 kg (660 lbs) per year, and of this, two thirds is still edible. MEPs are

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01/25/12--23:40: Ecological Connectivity as Climate Warms (chan 2234340)

The Dry Valleys have been largely sheltered from climate warming resulting from ozone depletion within the heart of the ozone hole over Antarctica. However, recent large-scale climate models project a warming trend across the continent over the next 50 to 100 years. The McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research program, or LTER, expects climate warming here to increase water availability,

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01/26/12--04:57: Federal reports highlight untapped energy potential of Maine tides, waves (chan 2234340)

The waves and tidal currents off the coast of Maine represent a vast, largely untapped energy resource capable of producing more than 15 trillion watts of electricity per year, according to two federal reports.

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01/26/12--05:00: Hope for Salmon as Dams Come Down (chan 2234340)

The destruction of two Washington State dams will restore depleted fisheries, create jobs, and maybe even change how we manage our rivers.

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01/26/12--07:31: Arctic Ocean freshwater bulge detected (chan 2234340)

UK scientists have detected a huge dome of fresh water that is developing in the western Arctic Ocean.

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01/26/12--07:39: China report spells out grim climate change risks (chan 2234340)

Global warming threatens China's march to prosperity by cutting crops, shrinking rivers and unleashing more droughts and floods, says the government's latest assessment of climate change, projecting big shifts in how the nation feeds itself.

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01/26/12--09:09: Is Germany the Model for a Second Green Revolution? (chan 2234340)

In May 2011, shortly after the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Germany\'s government decided to put the country on track to phase out its nuclear power plants by 2022. In its place will be energy from renewable sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, and bioenergy, as mandated by Germany\'s 2012 Renewable Energy Act. As one of - if not the most - ambitious and expensive green energy models to

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01/26/12--09:40: Dead Sea once almost dried up (chan 2234340)

Scientists say a research drilling project in the Dead Sea suggests its waters dried up almost completely as a result of climate change about 125,000 years ago.

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01/26/12--10:33: Scientists make underwater biofuel breakthrough (chan 2234340)

Researchers have found a way to produce ethanol from seaweed creating a new path for biofuels that does not encroach on resources for food production.

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01/26/12--10:34: Scientists Use Wyoming Core Samples to Understand Cause of Runaway Global Warming 56 Million Years Ago (chan 2234340)

As the planet enters a new phase of climate change, scientists in two countries are working with core samples drilled in Wyoming to understand what caused a pattern of runaway warming, sometimes called the "fever period," 56 million years ago. For reasons unknown, during the transition between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, a sudden surge of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere prompted an ext

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01/26/12--12:18: Solar Markets: A Study in Extremes (chan 2234340)

An interesting article talking about the future of Solar Markets in the next 5 to 10 years!

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01/26/12--14:39: Prompted By Scarcity, Colorado River Basin States Examine Their Lifeline (chan 2234340)

The worst drought in the 105-year historical record of the Colorado River has opened a new era of water scarcity that is prompting state and federal water managers to evaluate never before considered options for increasing water supply and reducing demand.

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01/26/12--14:48: Helping the Virgin Islands Cut Fuel Use with Renewables (chan 2234340)

The U.S. Virgin Islands are a great place to visit, but you wouldn't want to pay energy bills there. The tiny U.S. territory in the Caribbean has just 110,000 residents, all the beach, surf, wind and sun you'd ever want, but energy prices that are four to five times higher than are paid in the continental United States.

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01/26/12--16:12: Assessing the Climate Talks—Did Durban Succeed? (chan 2234340)

Harvard Project Director Robert Stavins offers his analysis of the recent climate talks in Durban, South Africa, in An Economic View of the Environment blog post.

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01/26/12--16:31: Sea Height/Fresh Water Increasing In Arctic Ocean (1995-2010) ! (chan 2234340)

ESA satellites show that a large dome of fresh water has been building up in the Arctic Ocean over the last 15 years. A change in wind direction could cause the water to spill into the north Atlantic, cooling Europe.

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01/26/12--19:57: Acid Rain Change (chan 2234340)

Acid rain is a rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it possesses elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH). It can have harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals, and infrastructure. Acid rain is caused by emissions of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides which react with the water molecules in the atmosphere to produce acids. Measurable im

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01/26/12--20:24: Renewable energy standards: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it (chan 2234340)

Renewable energy standards may not be perfect, but they are an energy policy with benefits that the vast majority of American citizens recognize as worth their small cost.

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01/26/12--21:09: Restored wetlands rarely equal condition of original wetlands (chan 2234340)

Wetland restoration is a billion-dollar-a-year industry in the United States that aims to create ecosystems similar to those that disappeared over the past century. But a new analysis of restoration projects shows that restored wetlands seldom reach the quality of a natural wetland.

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01/27/12--03:57: Great Miami Water Quality Trading Program (chan 2234340)

Market-based approaches to address water quality problems have resulted in only limited success, especially in trading programs involving both point and non-point sources. This article analyzes one of the largest point and non-point trading programs, the Great Miami Trading Program (GMTP) in Ohio, administered by the Miami Conservancy District (MCD).

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01/27/12--08:39: 2010 was joint warmest on record, say climatologists (chan 2234340)

The year of devastating floods, freak snowstorms, forest fires and heatwaves that was 2010 has tied for the warmest on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced today. The Earth's temperature was 0.62C (1.12F) above the 20th-century average of 13.9C(57F), tying 2005 for the warmest year since record-keeping began in 1880, the analysis by the National Climatic Data C

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01/27/12--09:24: ICHE 2012: Tenth International Conference on Hydroscience & Engineering (4-7 November 2012, Orlando, Florida) (chan 2234340)

General Conference Topics • Climate Change and Hydroscience • Coastal Processes and Engineering • Emerging Directions in Computational Hydroscience • Hydrology, Water Resources, and Human Impacts • Lake and River Restoration • Remote Sensing and Field Monitoring • Sediment Transport and Morphodynamic Processes • Stochastic Processes in Hydroscience • Surface and Ground Water Flows • S

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01/27/12--09:52: Efforts to control the Mighty Mississippi result in flooded farmland and permanent damage, research shows (chan 2234340)

As the price of fuel oil increases, high commodity prices will be needed. One way to mitigate this treadmill is to build on the diverse habitat created by wetlands, sediment basin, and levees, and purposefully develop an economic tourism plan to increase the recreational use of this region."

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01/27/12--09:52: Survey- Input Needed on Global Data Sharing Tools (please participate) (chan 2234340)

EWRI and the World Water Council (WWC) Activities Committee welcome the input of the Institute membership regarding the goals of the WWC, the World Water Forum, and the United Nations World Water Assessment Program. At the 6th World Water Forum (March 12-18, 2012, Marseille, France), a panel discussion will be held to discuss the program's goals of setting up a global mechanism to measure, monito

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01/27/12--09:52: EU Emission Trading Scheme (chan 2234340)

You may be forgiven for thinking that the EU's Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) is a fairly technical subject that concerns only companies that are directly impacted by it. But you would be wrong!

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01/27/12--09:53: 2012 Natural Resources Leadership Academy (chan 2234340)

In June of 2012, Oregon State University will be hosting its first Natural Resources Leadership Academy, in Corvallis, Oregon. This is a unique opportunity to enhance leadership skills, gain knowledge and connect with others in the natural resources field.

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01/27/12--09:53: Beijing releases pollution data; US figures higher! (chan 2234340)

It is the first time Beijing has publicly revealed PM2.5 data and follows a clamor of calls by citizens on social networking sites tired of breathing in gray and yellow air. The U.S. Embassy measures PM2.5 from a device on its rooftop and releases the results, and some residents have even tested the air around their neighborhoods and posted the results online.

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01/27/12--14:57: Climate Change and Farming: How Not to Go Hungry in a Warmer World (chan 2234340)

Climate change might hit us in the most vital place of all - the dinner plate. Why do we care about climate change? Obviously we worry about what warming temperatures might do to the geography of the planet - particularly melting polar ice and raising global sea levels. We fear the impact that climate change could have on endangered species, as warming temperatures speed the already rapid pace of

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01/27/12--18:31: Study Links Rising Ocean Acidification to CO2 Emissions (chan 2234340)

Earth's oceans may be an inconceivably vast ecosystem home to countless species yet unknown to science, but a new study reaffirms that they too are susceptible to the damaging impact of carbon emissions released by humans. According to researchers from the University of Hawaii, ocean acidity levels in some regions have spiked more quickly in the last 200 years than in the preceding 21 thousand ye

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01/27/12--21:18: Use and Abuse of the Mississippi River Basin (chan 2234340)

Excess fertilizer that runs off farm fields can encourage algal blooms in waterways.

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01/28/12--01:58: Resilience: An approach on cope with climate change (chan 2234340)

In a review of its humanitarian operations (HERR), the UK government was among the first donors to place resilience at the centre of its "approach both to longer-term development and to emergency response" and announced its intention to scale-up work on resilience.

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01/28/12--05:24: U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Decline Despite Political Gridlock (chan 2234340)

President Obama mentioned climate change almost in passing during last night's State of the Union address, noting: "The differences in this chamber may be too deep right now to pass a comprehensive plan to fight climate change." But what Obama didn't mention is that declining energy consumption in a sluggish economy and well-placed regulations targeting air pollution and oil use are creating a m

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01/28/12--06:33: Beyond the Food-Energy-Water Nexus (chan 2234340)

The food-energy-water nexus will be a common theme running through many conversations, and that is a good thing. Water, food and energy security are chronic impediments to economic growth and social stability.

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01/28/12--07:48: A useful paper for strategic choices for renewable energy investment (chan 2234340)

The aim of this paper, and the entire special issue, is to draw scholarly attention to the processes underlying strategic choices for renewable energy investment, and how they are influenced by energy policy. Authors disentangle the role of risk-return perceptions, portfolio effects and path dependence in explaining energy investment decisions, and suggest that the heterogeneous universe of inves

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01/28/12--08:00: Restoration Funding Sparks New Controversy Over Southern California Wetlands (chan 2234340)

California has approved a plan that would invest $6.5 million in the restoration of some of the state's severely degraded wetlands.

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01/28/12--11:00: Historic Buildings May Be Greener Than You Think - NYTimes.com (chan 2234340)

In New York City, a conflict has long been perceived between historic preservation and urban sustainability goals. Older buildings are often seen as outdated energy hogs that can\'t pull their weight, efficiency-wise, in a city that is expected to add a million new residents by 2030. About 55 percent of the city\'s 838,337 buildings were constructed before 1940, half a century before the notion of

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01/28/12--14:01: New program to protect water quality; details to be worked out (chan 2234340)

Top officials from the Obama administration came to Minnesota Tuesday to announce a new program to encourage farmers to do more to protect water quality.

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01/28/12--16:33: Eurasian Energy Analysis: Will Russia Attack in the Caspian? (chan 2234340)

Some legal experts believe that a pipeline can be constructed while the final status of the Caspian is still being negotiated.

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01/28/12--17:24: Logging of primary rainforests not ecologically sustainable, argue scientists (chan 2234340)

Tropical countries may face a risk of 'peak timber' as continued logging of rainforests exceeds the capacity of forests to regenerate timber stocks and substantially increases the risk of outright clearing for agricultural and industrial plantations, argues a trio of scientists writing in the journal Biological Conservation. The implications for climate, biodiversity, and local economies are subs

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