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China - new number one climate polluter?

According to a new study, China's carbon dioxide emissions last year were the largest in the world.

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EPA Reduces Ozone Pollution Standards

Environmental Protection Agency recommended tough ozone pollution standards to make air cleaner, people healthier. But the existing standard will be acting through March 2008 when a final decision is scheduled to be made.

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Bird Populations Are Dying

Loss of wetlands and industry pollution result in climate change that makes difficult conditions for American bird species to survive.

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Intel, Google Go Green

IT industry giants Google and Intel are going greener to reduce gas emissions and to save energy costs.

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Movie Star Daryl Hannah to Sue Chevron

U.S. actress Daryl Hannah said she planned to meet with Ecuador's president on Tuesday to discuss a lawsuit by Indians and settlers against Chevron Corp., a day after she trudged through the jungle to visit the polluted site, PlanetSave reported.

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Exhaust gas treatments for No x reduction to add to global warming

Concealed invention makes breakthrough with economical real solution. Synthetic diesel from Bio-Diesel with far excellent fuel properties.

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'Large is smart' when it comes to cities

Cities are considered by many to be a blessing and a curse. Large cities generate considerable wealth, they are home to many high paying jobs and are seen as engines of innovation. But cities also generate pollution, crime and poor social structures that lead to the urban blight that plagues their very existence.

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Impact of Asian Dust and Pollution on Clouds, Weather, Climate Change

Scientists using the nation's newest and most capable aircraft for environmental research are launching a far-reaching field project this month to study plumes of airborne dust and pollutants that originate in Asia and journey to North America. The plumes are among the largest such events on Earth, so great in scope that scientists believe they might affect clouds and weather across thousands of miles while playing a role in global climate.

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Global Warming Pollution Up in 48 States Since 1990

Global warming pollution increased in all but two states nationwide between 1990 and 2004, according to "The Carbon Boom," a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG). This is the first time that 2004 state-by-state data on carbon dioxide emissions have been released. Nationally, carbon dioxide emissions increased by 18 percent over the 15-year period.

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Global 'sunscreen' has likely thinned

A new NASA study has found that an important counter-balance to the warming of our planet by greenhouse gases - sunlight blocked by dust, pollution and other aerosol particles - appears to have lost ground.

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Carbon dioxide below ground may prevent polluting above

A new analysis led by an MIT scientist describes a mechanism for capturing carbon dioxide emissions from a power plant and injecting the gas into the ground, where it would be trapped naturally as tiny bubbles and safely stored in briny porous rock.

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Plant-grazing fish boost resilience of coral reefs facing stress

By using cages to experimentally control the access of fish to coral reefs, researchers have assessed the role of fish "grazing" in the ability of reefs to successfully recover from potentially devastating coral-bleaching events related to rises in ocean temperatures. The findings, reported by a group led by Terry Hughes of James Cook University in Australia, will appear in Current Biology online on February 8th.

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