photo: Sarah McD via flickr Regardless of what methods are used, from hard geoengineering artificial CO2 scrubbers to softer methods like reforestation projects , actively removing carbon from the atmosphere will likely require a decades or centuries-long commitment if it is to really reverse global wa… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Scrubbing CO2 From Atmosphere Could Be A Centuries-Long Commitment
photo: Julian Menichini via flickr Never to be left out of the action, New York has joined other northeast states in marching down the path towards building offshore wind farms: Reuters reports the New York Power Authority will soon be applying for a lease from the federal government required to build a 350-700 M… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New York Power Authority Applies For Long Island Offshore Wind Farm Lease From Feds
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Microalgae testing, photo: Steve Jurvetson via flickr If it sometimes seems that second generation biofuels, and especially algae biofuels , also seem to be commercially just over the horizon, after just one more demonstration or pilot plant is completed, you’re not mistaken. According to a new report … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Algae Biofuels Still Years From Commercialization: DoE
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photo: citylovesyou_ffm via flickr After two years of study, researchers from MIT have forecast natural gas use in the United States doubling in the coming decades, increasing energy market share to 40%. That increase comes largely because natural gas eventually replaces more coal in electricity generation thanks to future carbon emissions reduction policy. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Natural Gas Use to Double in US in Coming Decades: MIT Report
photo: Matt Lemmon via flickr It may not offer relief from the sweat dripping down your forehead in the midst of a heatwave as you walk down the street, but you can take comfort that it’s not all in your head. Heatwaves are indeed getting more pronounced. As Our Amazing Planet reports, sprawling cities have seen the
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Sprawling US Cities Heating Twice as Fast as Dense Ones
photo: Jeffery DelViscio via flickr With all the talk about getting the United States off of oil, energy independence, creating a low-carbon future, et cetera, one of the key parts of that is reducing carbon emissions, whether they are from electricity, transportation or wherever they occur. Central to that is setting a price on carbon emissions. What options are there to do this? Cap and trade may be the main option being considered, but both a cap and dividend approach, as well as a carbon tax have their vocal proponents. Let’s take a look at e… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What’s the Best Way to Price Carbon Emissions: Cap and Trade, Cap and Dividend, or Carbon Tax?
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photo: Procsilas Moscas via flickr Overfishing is a problem not limited by national boundary or species, as an interesting piece in Tierramérica illustrates: The Argentine Hake (known in Latin as Marluccius hubbsi and in Spanish as merluza ) is the preferred fish in an otherwise meat-loving nation, but due to indiscriminate fishing and a growing export market the fishery is on the brink of collapse–meaning that while there will still be hake in the sea, it won’t be commerciall… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Overfishing Pushing Argentine Hake Fishery to Collapse
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Introducing the Best Way Yet to Visualize the Gulf Oil Spill All those vague references from newscasters about how the BP Gulf spill is as big as this US state or that US state got you yearning for a better way to visualize the spill? If It Was My Home has it. Using Google Maps and data from NASA satellites, the clever interactive map lets you build a frame of reference for the spill’s vastness … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Surprise! The BP Gulf Spill is as Big as these Nations and States …
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photo: Andy Zeigert via flickr You’ve probably heard the lunatic proposition floating around the web that the last resort option in stopping the oil gushing out of the the sunken Deepwater Horizon is to deploy some variety of nuclear weapon to blast the leak out of existence. Thankfully, according to a New York Times report, the US government has no plans to act on what one senior official described as a “crazy” plan:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Phew! US Has No Plans to Use Nuclear Weapons to Stop the Gulf Gusher
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