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How to Turn Local Water Conservation into Good Business (Video)

Photo via CMAFDA At what may have been the most interesting session at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative — a discussion with leaders from big business and nonprofit orgs on how to find market solutions for protecting the environment — Dr. Sanjayan, the lead scientist of the Nature Conservancy, discussed his agency’s promising large-scale project to turn combating water crises around the world with market-based ‘water protection’ plans. The video after the jump explains: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ocean Cooling, Not Pollution, Halted Global Warming in Mid-20th Century

photo: Alan Strakey via flickr A new paper in the journal Nature explains what happened during the mid-twentieth century to halt the ever-increasing global temperature rise that continues to this day. Rather than warming in the Northern Hemisphere being stopped by a greater build-up of air pollution as had been supposed, the researchers say an unexpectedly a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ocean Cooling, Not Pollution, Halted Global Warming in Mid-20th Century