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World's First Carbon Capture Pilot Fires Up Clean-Coal Advocates (Guardian)
The world's first complete demonstration of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology will begin next week at a coal-fired power station in Germany. Built alongside the 1,600MW Schwarze Pumpe power plant in north Germany, the demonstration experiment will capture up to 100,000 tons of CO2 a year.
UK Approves Building of Major Offshore Wind Farm (Reuters)
The British government has approved construction of a 500-megawatt offshore wind farm in Cumbria, northwest England, the government said on Thursday.
Doubling Dead Zones (Nature)
Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions could strip tropical oceans of oxygen and drastically expand the region's 'dead zones' by the end of this century.
Emissions Standards Tightened (Washington Post)
The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday tightened emissions standards for new gasoline-powered lawn mowers, weed trimmers and boat engines, reducing the amount of smog-causing pollution these motors will be allowed to emit. Once fully implemented, the new regulations will annually eliminate emissions totaling 600,000 tons of hydrocarbons.
Second Generation Tidal Turbines Promise Cheaper Power (Guardian)
The device, unveiled by a team of engineers from Oxford University, re-thinks the way power is generated underwater and the inventors believe it will be more robust, more efficient and cheaper to build and maintain than anything in operation today.
California Revives Program to Buy Water from Farmers (Los Angeles Times)
Saying California's water reserves are all but gone, state officials on Thursday announced the revival of a dormant 17-year-old program to buy water from Sacramento Valley farmers and sell it to the thirstiest Southern California agencies in case this winter brings a third year of skimpy precipitation.
How Much Will Sea Level Rise? (Real Climate)
A new study estimating a sea level rise up to two meters, but some media sources are misrepresenting the data.
Warming Oceans Make Strongest Storms Stronger, Study Says (New York Times)
A new study finds that the strongest of hurricanes and typhoons have become even stronger over the last two and a half decades, adding grist to the contentious debate over whether global warming has already made storms more destructive.
US Now the World Leader in Wind Electricity Generation (Earth2Tech)
According to the AWEA the U.S. has surpassed Germany in wind-powered electricity generation, even though Germany has more installed wind capacity. While the U.S. has 20,152 MW, Germany has about 23,000 MW, but U.S. wind farms produce more electricity because of stronger winds.
EU official: Climate Must be Heart of Foreign Policy (Reuters)
Climate change represents such a threat to global security it must be at the heart of European Union foreign policy, much as energy security is now, a top EU bureaucrat said on Wednesday.
Sunrise Solar Introduces Solar Building Brick (Solar Daily)
Sunrise Solar has announced the introduction of a Solar Light Brick for the integration of solar technologies into traditional construction materials.
EU Lawmakers Delay Vote to Get Tough on Car CO2 (Reuters)
EU lawmakers have delayed a key vote on curbing carbon dioxide emissions from cars, allowing themselves time to make tougher demands on the car industry, they said on Wednesday.
Africa Must Grasp Carbon Funds for Development, States UN (Reuters)
Africa must grasp funds generated by carbon credit trading to pay for cleaner, cheaper energy and help fight climate change that threatens to undo years of economic development, the UN climate chief said on Wednesday.
Scientists Warn of Rising Mediterranean Temperature (Sindh Today)
Scientists currently aboard the Aigaio oceanographic vessel near Sicily studying the impact of climate change said the two seas’ temperatures have risen two degrees in the past 25 years and were at risk of rising further if action is not taken.
Australia: Carbon Scheme Putting Forests at Logging Risk (Australia Broadcasting Co.)
Two Canberra academics are warning the inclusion of plantation forests in an emissions trading scheme could drive emissions up not down, by encouraging the logging of native forests.
Global warming Aside, Southern Amazon Forest Cover May Fall to 20% by 2016 (Mongabay.com)
Forest cover in the "Arc of Deforestation" of southern Amazonia will decline to around 20% by 2016 due to continued logging and conversion of forests for cattle pasture and soy farms, reports Environmental Conservation. The results are independent of impacts resulting from climate change, which some researchers say could dry the Southern Amazon and turn it into a tinderbox.
Solar Plant Yields Water and Crops from Desert (Guardian)
Vast greenhouses that use sea water for crop cultivation could be combined with solar power plants to provide food, fresh water and clean energy in deserts, under an ambitious proposal from a team of architects and engineers.
Scientists Remain Divided Over Issue of Changing Weather Patterns (Wall Street Journal)
Gustav and a string of tempests percolating in the Atlantic are intensifying a debate within the scientific community over whether hurricanes are getting more destructive, and if so whether global warming is to blame.
Coal Plans Go Up in Smoke (Independent)
Environmentalists in the U.S. have halted a huge new wave of coal-fired power stations. What lessons can Europe learn from them?
AltaRock Seals Deal to Explore for Hot Rocks (Earth2Tech)
Geothermal startup AltaRock Energy says its engineered geothermal systems can tap into the heat of the earth almost anywhere, but it’s clear some sites are better than others. Tuesday morning the Sausalito, Calif.-based startup said it has struck a deal with forest products company Weyerhaeuser to explore 667,000 acres of land across California, Oregon and Washington.
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