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Antarctic sea ice set for record high as Arctic heads for sixth lowest extent
2014-09-17 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The extent of sea ice in Antarctica is set to reach a record high, scientists said on Tuesday, as they announced that Arctic sea ice appeared to have shrunk to its sixth lowest level ever. The NSIDC said that satellite data was expected to shortly confirm whether the maximum extent of sea ice at the opposite pole, in Antarctica, had set a new record. Antarctic sea ice is poised to set a record maximum this year, now at 19.7 million sq km (7.6m sq m) and continuing to increase, the centre,...
API Survey Reveals Extent Of Economic Growth Behind American Oil And Natural Gas
2014-09-15 11:36:00| oilandgasonline Home Page
API unveiled a new vendor survey today that demonstrates the diverse array of suppliers, service providers, and other small and midsized businesses supporting the U.S. energy renaissance.
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Full extent of global coal 'binge' is hidden, say researchers
2014-08-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The climate impacts of the world's fossil-fuelled power plants are being underestimated because of poor accounting, say researchers. Governments would get a truer picture if they included the lifetime emissions of a facility in the year it goes into production These "committed emissions" have been growing by 4% a year between 2000 and 2012, the scientists say. Power plants in China and India alone account for half of this commitment. At present, UN accounting procedures only include the...
Google Street View Maps Show Extent Methane Leaks in Cities
2014-07-17 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: New maps from Google reveal the locations of natural gas leaks in U.S. cities and highlight the extent of "fugitive" methane emissions associated with the nation's aging infrastructure. The Environmental Defense Fund partnered with Google Street View to map leaks in the nation's natural gas system, using cars equipped with air-quality sensors that collected millions of readings across Boston, Indianapolis, and Staten Island. The analysis found thousands of methane leaks in highly-populated areas...
First of Kind Map Reveals Extent of Ocean Plastic
2014-07-15 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: When marine ecologist Andres Cozar Cabaas and a team of researchers completed the first ever map of ocean trash, something didn't quite add up. Their work, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, did find millions of pieces of plastic debris floating in five large subtropical gyres in the world's oceans. But plastic production has quadrupled since the 1980s, and wind, waves, and sun break all that plastic into tiny bits the size of rice grains. So there should...