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Saving Lives with Safer Streets
2016-08-02 02:25:51| PortlandOnline
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France Agrees To Build Huge Nuclear Reactor For UK, Saving $32 Billion
2016-07-29 06:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Change Dispatch: The French nuclear giant Electricite de France (EDF) agreed Thursday to build a nuclear reactor at Hinkley Point, United Kingdom by 2025, after years of delays and environmental opposition. U.K. taxpayers could have been stuck paying $31.6 billion if the reactors had been blocked for political reasons, according to released government documents. EDF is moving ahead despite the companys serious financial problems and the fact that the projects credit rating is below investment grade. EDF repeatedly...
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New York City Ambulances Going Green, Saving Green
2016-06-13 04:06:49| pollutiononline Home Page
The New York City Fire Department is installing Stealth Power’s idle reduction systems on more than 100 of its ambulances, helping prevent hazardous emissions and saving fuel
Desalination Breakthrough: Saving the Sea from Salt
2016-06-12 05:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Farid Benyahia wants to solve two environmental problems at once: excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and excess salt in the Persian Gulf (aka the Arabian Gulf). Oil and natural gas drive the regions booming economieshence the excess CO2and desalination supplies the vast majority of drinking water, a process that creates concentrated brine waste that is usually dumped back into the gulf. Benyahia, a chemical engineer at Qatar University, thinks he may have hit on a neatly efficient way...
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Saving Nemo: How climate change threatens anemonefish and their homes
2016-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Conversation: Anemonefish, or clownfish, were made famous by the 2003 Disney-Pixar film Finding Nemo, and are about to play a starring role in the sequel, Finding Dory. They are well known for their special relationship with anemones, which provide a safe place to call home. But anemonefish face a number of threats. Some researchers have warned of an increase in the wild-caught anemonefish trade, as happened following Finding Nemo. Anemones, on which anemonefish depend, are threatened by warming seas in...
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