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Below the Radar: Rising Oceanic CO2 Levels Threatens Sea Life

Wendy Gordon | Posted 12.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Ocean Acidification, Climate Change, Co2, Fossil Fuel Burning, Coral Reefs, Heat-Trapping Pollution, Shellfish, Green News
Wendy Gordon

Oceans have absorbed about a quarter of all CO2 emissions, or about 530 billion tons over the last 250 years. But add enough CO2 and you lower the pH, creating a less hospitable environment for many forms of sea life.

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The Trouble with Geniuses: They Forget to Reach High Schoolers

Anne Butterfield | Posted 12.11.2009 | Denver

Read More: Co2, Xcel Energy, NOAA Fisheries, Carbon Emissions, Noaa, Comanche 3, Ocean Acidification, Climate Change, Climategate, Global Warming, Denver News
Anne Butterfield

Climate defenders need a simple, concrete frame that captures the CO2 crisis, hopefully one that can be grasped with a high-school education. It's the acid story.

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Top 25 Reasons To Care About Climate Change

Grist | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2, Climate Change, Copenhagen 2009, Global Warming, Green News

For some people, climate change is a tough cause to rally 'round--even those who understand that it's happening and that it's human-caused get distrac...

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Tax the Guy Behind the Tree

Carl Pope | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Co2, Kerry-Boxer, Lobbyists, American Petroleum Institute, John Kerry, Api, Climate Change, Clean Air Act, Global Warming, Green News
Carl Pope

Big Carbon is fighting for its life and seems determined to do as much damage as it can before it faces the inevitable. The world will move on to a clean-energy, post-coal-and-oil economy.

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A Challenge to Magazine Publishers -- Especially Jon Meacham

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Magazine, Al Gore, Magazine Publishers, Jon Meacham, Vanity Fair, Co2, Deforestation, Newsweek, Blow-in Inserts, Guideposts, Climate Change, Green News
Dr. Susan Corso

If all the print publications in the U.S. alone were to eliminate inserts, how much would that reduce carbon emissions? Think of the deforestation it could prevent.

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Fossil Fuels Had A Hand In Dinosaur Extinction

New Scientist | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2 Emissions, Co2, Hydrocarbons, Dinosaurs, Fossil Fuels, Extinction, Energy, Green News

Fossil fuels have a new crime to live down. A frenzy of hydrocarbon burning at the end of the Permian period may have led to the most devastating mass...

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Cap And Trade: Get The Lowdown

Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2 Emissions, Co2, Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Pollution, Transparency, Green News

Recent surveys about public perceptions of climate change and knowledge of cap-and-trade in the United States show that a lot of people out there have...

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France To Donate $1.5 Billion To Electric Car Tech

Yahoo! News | Simon Boehm | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2, Fuel Efficiency, Driving, France, Electric Cars, Cars, Green Living, Go Green, Green Technology, Green News

France launched the "battle of the electric car" Thursday as it unveiled plans to invest 1.5 billion euros on infrastructure for the two million elect...

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John Tierney: Carbon Capture Could Be A Cheaper, Neglected Solution To CO2 Levels?

nytimes.com | John Tierney | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2 Emissions, Co2, Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate Change, Climate Research, Carbon Emissions, Global Warming, Green News

Governments are doing practically nothing to study the removal of carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere, but this technology could be a much che...

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Bad Acid Trip

David Helvarg | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Policy Task Force, Oceans, Ocean Dead Zones, Plankton, Barack Obama, Green News
David Helvarg

More than 40 years after Woodstock it's the ocean that's on a bad acid trip. It's been scraped raw, emptied out, overheated, poisoned and abused, not a good time to be ingesting dangerous chemicals.

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IPCC Chair Says 350ppm Is the Number

Steve Kirsch | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2, Green, James Hansen, Ipcc, 350.Org, Rajendra Pauchauri, Global Warming, Green News
Steve Kirsch

We have the technology to meet the goal. What we lack is the political will and we need that in spades to aggressively pursue all of the clean power technologies we have for efficiency and new power. We should be treating this like a war, but we clearly are not.

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A Smiley Face (and Your Neighbors' Numbers) are Best Way to Save Energy

Graham Hill | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy-Efficient, Alternative Energy Efficiency, Positive Energy, Energy Efficiency, Co2, Environment, Environmentalism, Green Electricity, Green News
Graham Hill

Ever wondered if those little placards on your hotel room sink, exhorting you to use less water or fewer towels 'for the environment' actually work?

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Gore To Back Emissions Reduction

theage.com.au | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2, Energy, Clean Air, Gas, Solar, Carbon Emissions, Wind, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Energy, Pollution, Green Energy, Carbon, Evolving Energy Tech, Environment, Al Gore, Co2 Reduction, Green News

A fully costed map for how Australia could reduce greenhouse gas emissions "at emergency speed" will be developed with the backing of former US vice-p...

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Are Artificial Trees Better Than Real Ones?

treehugger.com | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2, Emission, Carbon Emissions, Green, Environment, Cardon-Dioxide, Trees, Carbon Footprint, Green News

Fake plants generally don't give off huge environmental benefits--especially when they're the plastic kind that just barely cheer up offices and waiti...

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Dry Cleaning: Do It Less, Do It Greener

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2, Clean, C02 Cleaning, Green, Environment, Wet Cleaning, Climate Change, Toxins, Dry Clean, Green News

Not only is dry cleaning expensive it's actually terrible for the environment. The main chemical used by dry cleaners is perchloroethylene, which the ...

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CO2 Famine: Exxon-Paid Scientist Says Earth Is Short On Greenhouse Gases (VIDEO)

treehugger.com | Posted 03.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Barbara Boxer, CO2 Famine, Climate Change, Environment, Co2, Pollution, Global Warming, William Happer, Green News

The Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee had an unusual guest recently: a man who says we are in a carbon dioxide famine. Treehugger's John...

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One-Third of China's CO2 Emissions Made by the West

Alex Pasternack | Posted 02.25.2009 | Home

Read More: Co2, Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, Trade, China, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Kyoto Protocol, Home News
Alex Pasternack

In recent years, consumers in the US huffed over the dangers of Chinese-made goods to kids in the US. Now they and their governments might start thinking harder about what those goods are doing to kids in China.

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Pro-Carbon Dioxide Commercial From 2006 Is Really Scary (VIDEO)

Videogum | Posted 03.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2, Video, Pollution, Carbon Emissions, Green Politics, Green News

Videogum dug up this little gem -- a pro-CO2 video. Now, I'm not fundamentally against carbon dioxide. And I don't know anyone who is. And that's wha...

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Rod Bremby: Moving Towards a Renewable Future, Despite Big Coal's Backlash

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Supreme Court, Holcomb, Carbon Emissions, Massachusetts v. EPA, Heather Mueller, Co2, Green Energy, Pollution, Coal, Clean Air Act, Politics, Rod Bremby, Electricity, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide, Greenhouse Gases, Roderick Bremby, Department of Health and Environment, Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Sunflower Electric, Global Warming, Simran Sethi, Kansas, Green News
Simran Sethi

Roderick Bremby, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, is a force of nature. He stood up to big coal interests in Kansas and, quite simply, said "no."

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Orange is Greener When It's Organic

Wendy Gordon | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Energy Efficiency, Organic Fertilizer, Organic Food, CO2 Footprint, Organic, Carbon Emissions, Co2, Carbon, Oranges, Tropicana, Orange Juice, Food Matters, Rodale Institute, Eating Matters, Climate Change, Nitrogen, Vitamin C, Citrus, Pepsico, Green News
Wendy Gordon

PepsiCo learned that it wasn't running the Tropicana factory or transporting juice containers, but the nitrogen fertilizers they used that were the primary carbon emissions culprit.

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Combatting "CO-Tuneout"

James Glave | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2 Emissions, Co2, Carbon, 350, CO-Tuneout, 350.Org, Climate, Green Living, Global Warming, Green News
James Glave

Do you know how much carbon that quick Google search just kicked up? Or the atmospheric price of that orange juice? Me neither. In fact, I don't care.

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Yes, We Can Regulate CO2!

Sarah Newman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Oil and Gas, George Bush, Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Yes We Can, Carbon Dioxide, Obama, Co2, Transportration Secretary Roy LaHood, Bush-Era, Natural Resources Defense Council, Oil Industry, Transportation Department, Takepart, Kyoto Protocol, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Environment, Green News
Sarah Newman

Environmentalists are heralding Obama's decision to review the request by California and 13 other states to establish strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.

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New Cement Absorbs More CO2 Than Production Emits

guardian.co.uk | Alok Jha, Green Technology Correspondent | Posted 02.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Cement, Carbon Emissions, Environment, Co2, Pollution, Eco-Cement, Novacem, Portland Oregon, Green News

Standard cement, also known as Portland cement, is made by heating limestone or clay to around 1,500C. The processing of the ingredients releases 0.8 ...

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Obama Likely To Face Even Higher Global Temperatures

Climate Progress | Jeff Goodell | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, President Obama, Politicians, Green News, Environment, American Geophysical Union, James Hansen, Co2, Obama, Climate Change, Coal, Global Warming, Truth, Green News

The themes of James Hansen's recent talk at American Geophysical Union's fall meeting were not new to anyone who has heard him speak recently (or to r...

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Climate In The Obama Age: An Interview With Andy Revkin

Treehugger | Jacob Gordon | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Population Growth, Geoengineering, President Obama, Climate Taxes, Climate Change, The New York Times, Environment, Co2, President-Elect Obama, Green Policy, Green News

Hopes are high for an Obama-led climate strategy, but when it comes to true details there are still more questions than answers. Andrew C. Revkin has...

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