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- By Wired.co.uk Staff
- 25 October 2012
Wired.co.uk asks Greg Asner whether environment is doomed, how technology has changed the way he studies ecosystems, and the challenges of motivating behavioural change around climate change »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 25 October 2012
Most of existing earth observation tools do not provide the richness of data needed to understand the impact that humans are having on Earth, argued environmental scientist Greg Asner at Wired 2012 »
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- By Philippa Warr
- 24 October 2012
Not-for-profit organisation, Project Pressure, is compiling the first Glacier Atlas to document the decline of the world's glaciers »
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- By Kirsty Styles
- 22 October 2012
The Big Six energy companies control 99 percent of the UK market, but energy cooperatives -- democratically run community renewable energy programmes -- are springing up in the fight against the "fossil fuel economy" »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 20 October 2012
An American businessman is under fire after dumping 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean under the guise of a geoengineering experiment »
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- By Philippa Warr
- 19 October 2012
Increased ocean acidification could lead to oceans with the same acoustic properties as during the time of the dinosaurs »
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- By Philippa Warr
- 19 October 2012
Residents in neighbourhoods with high rates of solar power adoption are more likely to add the technology to their own homes, according to a study by Yale and New York University »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 13 October 2012
The carbon tax that Norway levies on its North Sea oil industry will be doubled under government proposals to create a fund to help developing countries cope with climate change »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 07 October 2012
Bees close to a biogas plant in northern France have begun producing blue and green honey, causing concern among apiculturists »
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- By Ryan Singel
- 04 October 2012
In a presidential debate over tax breaks Republican nominee Mitt Romney argued that President Obama’s grants and tax breaks to renewable energy companies equalled 50 years of the tax breaks to gas companies -- criticising groups including Tesla »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 01 October 2012
A chemist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research is studying how dissolved organic matter acts as a "history book of the sea" »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 28 September 2012
Siemens has invested around £30 million in east London with the opening of "the Crystal" -- a centre for sustainable urban development »
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- By Ian Steadman
- 25 September 2012
According to a report by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, two thirds of the world's increase in solar power capacity came from within the EU last year »
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- By Ian Steadman
- 24 September 2012
How building a chair out of a giant mushroom might herald a new urban ecology »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 23 September 2012
Steven Running, an ecologist from the University of Montana, believes that humans are approaching the limits of plant growth on planet Earth »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 18 September 2012
Europe's newest weather satellite has successfully made it into orbit, where it will beam back data for weather prediction and climate and environment monitoring »
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- By Duncan Geere
- 15 September 2012
A report into the much-touted nuclear fuel alternative thorium has concluded that many of its supposed benefits are "overstated" »
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- By Ian Steadman
- 12 September 2012
After annexing 1,500km2 from the countryside to the southwest of the Russian capital, the first stage of developing "New Moscow" has been announced »
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- By Liat Clark
- 28 August 2012
The National Snow and Ice Data Centre has confirmed its predictions that the Arctic ice cap would melt to its lowest ever recorded level, announcing that the sea ice is continuing to rapidly melt well beyond the record-breaking low of 2007 »