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Salvation Gets Cheap The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which pools the efforts of scientists around the globe, has begun releasing draft chapters from its latest assessment, and, for the most part, the reading is as grim as you might expect. |
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Jimmy Carter Urges Obama To Reject Keystone XL Pipeline Former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday announced his opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, joining a group of Nobel laureates urging President Barack Obama to reject the project. |
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Dual Turning Point for Biofuels There is an old joke in the energy business that advanced biofuels are the fuel of the future, and always will be. |
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U.N. Climate Panel Highlights Lack Of Action On Rising Temperatures The cost of keeping global warming in check is "relatively modest," but only if the world acts quickly to reverse the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, the head of the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change said Sunday. |
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Leaked climate change report: Scientific body warns of 'devastating rise of 4-5C if we carry on as we are' Global greenhouse gas emissions over the past decade were the "highest in human history", according to the world's leading scientific body for the assessment of climate change. |
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China Takes On Big Risks in Its Push for Shale Gas Residents of this isolated mountain valley of terraced cornfields were just going to sleep last April when they were jolted by an enormous roar, followed by a tower of flames. |
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Vast oil trove trapped in Monterey Shale formation A bustling city is sprouting on five acres here, carved out of a vast almond grove. Tanker trucks and heavy equipment come and go, a row of office trailers runs the length of the site and an imposing 150-foot drilling rig illuminated by football-field-like lights rises over the trees. |
