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Traces of bisphenol A (BPA), a potentially harmful chemical found in thousands of everyday plastics, was found in the umbilical cord blood of minority newborns , the first evidence that U.S. infants are exposed to the chemical in the womb, according to a new study. The chemical, which is known ...
Environment
Environmental Working Group
Washington
Global investments in alternative energy projects will rise nearly 50 percent in 2010, climbing from $130 billion this year to $200 billion next year . In a survey of the green energy market, Bloomberg News reports that despite the dim prospects of forging a climate treaty in Copenhagen this ...
Environment
Energy Efficiency
China
Michael Bloomberg
Hong Kong
As wild fish stocks continue to dwindle, aquaculture is becoming an increasingly important source of protein worldwide. Now, a growing number of entrepreneurs are raising fish in large pens in the open ocean, hoping to avoid the many environmental problems of coastal fish farms.
BY JOHN MCQUAID
Environment
While research has shown that ocean acidification threatens many invertebrate marine species, such as clams and corals, by hindering their ability to grow shells and exoskeletons, a new study suggests that some species may actually benefit from increased acidity . As the ocean absorbs growing ...
Environment
North Carolina
Farmers’ organizations and environmental groups are fighting the approval of what would be India’s first genetically modified food crop , questioning the possible long-term effects on human health and ecology. The nation’s biotechnology regulator and the government’s Genetic Engineering Approval ...
Environment
India
Food Shortage
A British scientist who emerged as a central figure in a climate research furor after his e-mails were pirated and posted online is stepping down as director of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit while the university conducts an investigation. Global warming skeptics say a ...
Environment
Van Jones
Climate Change
Corruption in the Indonesian government and forestry sector threatens to undermine plans to establish a carbon trading market aimed at protecting one of the planet’s largest remaining swaths of tropical forest, according to a new report. From 2003 to 2006, Indonesia lost nearly $2 billion ...
Environment
Indonesia
Water Conservation
Deforestation
Temperatures in Antarctica are expected to increase by 5.3 degrees F this century and the melting of much of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could contribute to a global sea level rise of 4.5 feet by 2100, according to the most comprehensive study to date on the impact of global warming on the ...
Environment
Antarctica
Colbert Report
Climate Change
An Irish university has launched the world’s largest hydro-electric wave energy converter off the coast of northern Scotland. The so-called Oyster is a mechanically-hinged flap that is embedded into the sea floor — at a depth of about 32 feet (10 meters) — and moves with the motions of the ...
Environment
Energy Efficiency
An Irish university has launched the world’s largest hydro-electric wave energy converter off the coast of northern Scotland. The so-called Oyster is a mechanically-hinged flap that is embedded into the sea floor — at a depth of about 32 feet (10 meters) — and moves with the motions of the ...
Environment
Energy Efficiency
Denmark, host of the upcoming climate summit, is proposing that global greenhouse gas emissions be cut by 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 , with emissions peaking by 2020, according to Reuters . A draft of the Danish proposal, now being circulated, said that to meet the 2050 target ...
Environment
China
Denmark
CO2
Twelve years ago in Kyoto, the world was poised to act on a climate treaty but looked for a clear signal from the United States. Now, with the Copenhagen talks set to begin, the outcome once again hinges on what the U.S. says it is prepared to do.
BY BILL MCKIBBEN
Environment
Denmark
Michael Mack, the chief executive of the Swiss agrobusiness conglomerate, Syngenta, says organic farming does far more harm to the planet than conventional farming because organic methods often require 30 percent more land. Given the need to feed rapidly rising populations this century, ...
Environment
Agribusiness
Food Shortage
New York
Slashing carbon dioxide emissions has the added benefit of significantly reducing air pollution and could prevent millions of premature deaths each year, according to a series of studies in the British medical journal, The Lancet . The six studies demonstrate that cutting greenhouse gas ...
Environment
India
Himalayas
A recent survey of Siberian tigers shows that populations of the majestic cat — numbering roughly 500 in the wild in 2005 — may have declined by as much as 40 percent because of increased poaching and habitat loss. The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), working with the Russian ...
Environment
New York
Wildlife Conservation Society
Obama administration officials say they will offer provisional CO2 emissions reductions goals at the upcoming Copenhagen climate conference, although the targets are likely to be far more modest than those proposed by the European Union and other industrialized nations. U.S. officials, not ...
Environment
Barack Obama
CO2
On the eve of the Copenhagen conference, a group of scientists has issued an update on the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Their conclusions? Ice at both poles is melting much faster than predicted, the claims of recent global cooling are wrong, and world leaders ...
Environment
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Ice Age
U.S. researchers have demonstrated a technology that uses the sun’s heat to convert carbon dioxide and water into the building blocks of traditional fuels , a reverse combustion process that may emerge as a practical alternative to sequestration of CO2 emissions from power plants. The prototype ...
Environment
CO2
New Mexico
Scornful of the positions taken by so-called global warming skeptics, climate scientists discussed taking steps to prevent the skeptics’ work from being published in international reports and scientific journals , according to e-mails stolen from Britain’s Climate Research Unit at the University ...
Environment
Climate Change
Washington
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Van Jones
Pennsylvania
East Antarctica’s massive ice sheets, which scientists believed to be relatively unaffected by global warming, have been melting at an accelerating rate since 2002 , according to a new study. Using a NASA satellite that can measure gravity and mass from space, researchers from the University of ...
