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Ocean acidification due to carbon emissions is at highest for 300m years
2013-10-03 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The oceans are more acidic now than they have been for at least 300m years, due to carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels, and a mass extinction of key species may already be almost inevitable as a result, leading marine scientists warned on Thursday. An international audit of the health of the oceans has found that overfishing and pollution are also contributing to the crisis, in a deadly combination of destructive forces that are imperilling marine life, on which billions of people...
Top EU powers backing down over aviation emissions: sources
2013-10-02 14:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: European countries expressed support for an "imperfect" compromise to curb global aviation emissions on Wednesday but still face pressure to drop a key demand - to be able to apply the EU's carbon trading scheme to foreign air carriers. Delegates to the U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) are meeting in Montreal to try to hammer out a global agreement to set a path toward creating a global market-based mechanism by 2020 that would help limit growing carbon emissions in the...
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New EPA Emissions' Regs Pack Little Punch on Climate
2013-10-01 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled out restrictive new greenhouse gas emissions standards for new power plants at the end of September, but they are unlikely to have much of an impact on the nations overall climate change-fueling carbon emissions. Part of the Obama administrations Climate Action Plan, the EPA's proposed new rules, if finalized, will govern only power plants that havent been built yet and affect primarily coal-fired power plants, few of which are likely to be constructed...
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British Livestock Sector Capable of Reducing GHG Emissions
2013-10-01 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - The Head of SRUC’s Carbon Management Centre has said that in the future Britain could reduce its livestock greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20 per cent with the introduction of new technologies.
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Siemens Gas Turbine STG6-5000F Demonstrates 25 ppm NOx Emissions on Fuel Oil
2013-10-01 00:51:54| Telecom - Topix.net
In order to provide the highest power output and lowest emissions on fuel oil, Siemens invested in extensive testing of the SGT6-5000F combustion system and reached a new benchmark in the industry.
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