Archive for ‘pollution’
Mystery Tar Balls Wash Up On Peninsula Beaches
January 29th, 2008
U.S. Coast Guard pollution investigators were trying to determine the source of a miles-long strip of oil that washed up on San Mateo County beaches Monday.
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Toyota beats GM in global production
January 28th, 2008
Toyota may have fallen short of General Motors in global vehicle sales last year, but it’s beaten its U.S. rival in another measure — global vehicle production. In the latest neck-and-neck numbers race between the world’s top two automakers, Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday it had made a record 9,497,754 vehicles worldwide in 2007, up 5.3 percent from the …
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Bay Oil Spill Report Details Disclosure Delays
January 28th, 2008
A new report on the response to a ship collision and oil spill in San Francisco Bay found shortcomings in the Coast Guard’s disclosure of the spill, but says crews responded rapidly. Lisa Chan reports.
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Long-ago lead exposure, and possibly other pollutants, may hasten old-age mental decline
January 28th, 2008
Could it be that the “natural” mental decline that afflicts many older people is related to how much lead they absorbed decades before? That’s the provocative idea emerging from some recent studies, part of a broader area of new research that suggests some pollutants can cause harm that shows up only years after someone is exposed.
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World’s big polluters meet in Hawaii over climate
January 27th, 2008
The world’s biggest greenhouse gas-polluting countries are sending delegates to Hawaii this week for a U.S.-hosted meeting aimed at curbing climate change without stalling economic growth.
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Fukuda to leave for Davos for speech on climate change, economy
January 24th, 2008
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will leave Tokyo for Switzerland on Friday to attend an international forum and unveil Japan’s new climate change initiatives as well as seek closer coordination with other economies on addressing financial market turbulence from the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis.
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Researchers looking at coral threats
January 24th, 2008
Even coral reefs thought to be pristine are facing challenges, researchers said Thursday launching the International Year of the Reef. The year of the reef is a “campaign to highlight the importance of coral reef ecosystems and to motivate people to protect them,” Conrad Lautenbacher, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said at a briefing.
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Green Candidate?
January 24th, 2008
Obama gets voted Smogmaker of ’07 by DeSmogBlog, hot bodies warm building, and three wheeled autos. ZapRoot, helping you go green.
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Republicans differ on global warming
January 24th, 2008
While the major presidential candidates agree global warming is real, the Republicans are sharply divided over what to do about it — even as they chase votes in Florida, where the predicted risk of rising sea waters and more severe storms is anything but a passing concern.
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Global warming enters hurricane debate
January 24th, 2008
A lively and sometimes scrappy debate on whether global warming is fueling bigger and nastier hurricanes like Katrina is adding an edge to a gathering of forecasters here.
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World forum focuses on terrorism
January 24th, 2008
Fears of world recession briefly took a back seat Thursday at the World Economic Forum, where leaders from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq focused on how to establish security in their volatile regions.
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EU climate crackdown
January 24th, 2008
The EU has announced tough new targets for all member states to combat climate change within the next decade.
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Damaging din in Egypt
January 23rd, 2008
Cairo’s pollution goes beyond the ground and skies to the ears — honking, blaring music and traffic pushing noise to ever-higher decibel levels. Health workers are seeing the results — deafness and cardiovascular problems on the rise.
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Main points of the EU’s climate and energy package
January 23rd, 2008
The European Commission’s package of legal proposals on the climate and energy consists of the following documents:
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‘Green living’ in the Netherlands
January 23rd, 2008
Energy-neutral houses, homes that put more electricity back into the grid than they take out… in the Netherlands, architects and towns are seriously looking at ways to build more ecological housing in an attempt to reduce man’s impact on climate change. This report comes from Boxtel, in central…
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