Photo by ComputerHotline via Flickr Creative Commons This year has been quite a doozy for water. From spreading smart metering to our water works, to shipping water from Alaska all the way to India, to clever and crazy ideas to help us conserve, down to our annual month-long Blue August feature, we’ve been through the wringer, so to speak. Check out the top news of 2010 in the world of water. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What About Water?: The Year In Review
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Photo: Inhabitat Clean coal is friendlier-sounding euphemism for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), the technological conceit of snagging emissions belched out by coal plants and storing them under ground in order to keep them from entering the atmosphere. CCS has long been touted as a clean energy solution, and a political means of reassuring coal states that their lifeblood isn’t too dirty to burn after all. Of course, there are plenty of problems with CCS — the latest … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Clean Coal May Cause Earthquakes
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Photo by Cofrin Library We love seeing the ways the environmental movement alters mainstream culture, and the degree of its impact can be viewed quickly by just taking a look at the dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary is no slouch on keeping up with new words created in every corner from clean tech to the DIY movement — like when “hypermiling” made it as word of the year in 2008. Added to the latest edition are such greenie favories (or not) as “staycation,” “carbon capture and storage,” and “geo-engineering.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Oxford Dictionary of English Adds Climate Science Vocabulary
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Image via Wikipedia If you’re a beach goer, you might recognize those little crystal- clear blobs that often wash up on the sand in the mornings as salps. While often mistaken for jellyfish, they’re actually the ocean’s “vacuum cleaners,” sucking up all kinds of particles as food and excreting carbon-rich pellets that sink to the sea floor. Researchers know that the fairly benign creatures are actually quite important for carbon capture and storage in the oceans , but recent discoveries on what they eat show … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ocean’s Tiny Carbon "Vacuum Cleaners" More Important to Carbon Capture Than We Thought
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