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Nitrogen pollution from farming lingers for decades
2013-10-23 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When a farmworker sprays fertilizer over a field, there`s a good chance he or she will be outlived by nitrogen pollution from that fertilizer. A 30-year study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that nitrogen could linger in soil for nearly a century after fertilizer is applied. Nitrogen from fertilizer helps crops grow, but it can be poisonous for humans and animals. When nitrates leach from farmed soil into groundwater, they can make it undrinkable....
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United States: The farce of the Hinkley C nuclear reactor will haunt Britain for decades
2013-10-21 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Seven years ago, I collected all the available cost estimates for nuclear power. The US Nuclear Energy Institute suggested a penny a kilowatt hour. The Royal Academy of Engineering confidently predicted 2.3p. The British government announced that in 2020 the price would be between 3 and 4p. The New Economics Foundation guessed that it could be anywhere between 3.4 and 8.3p; 8.3 pence was so far beyond what anyone else forecast that I treated it as scarcely credible. It falls a penny short of the...
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China To Build First New Nuke Plants in U.K. in Two Decades
2013-10-21 14:53:19| ENR.com: Headline News
The French-led venture has set plans to deliver about 16 GW of new nuclear capacity by 2030, which could translate to at least 12 reactors at five sites.
Worlds Carbon Budget to Be Spent in Three Decades
2013-09-27 14:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) has delivered an overwhelming consensus that climate change impacts are accelerating, fueled by human-caused emissions. We may have just about 30 years left until the worlds carbon budget is spent if we want a likely chance of limiting warming to 2 degrees C. Breaching this limit would put the world at increased risk of forest fires, coral bleaching, higher sea level rise, and other dangerous impacts. When Will...
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Ecosystem Recovery from Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Will Take Decades
2013-09-25 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: It will likely take decades before the deep-sea ecosystem around the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site recovers from the impacts of the environmental disaster, according to new research published in the journal PLOS One. When the well head blew out on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010, nearly 5 million barrels (210 million gallons) of oil spewed from the ocean floor, encroaching upon the soft-sediment ecosystem in place at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spill and plume covered...
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