je.st
news
Tag: offset
Oil industry cutting jobs, investment to offset lower prices
2016-02-03 04:16:38| Energy - Topix.net
The latest warnings came from Exxon Mobil, which reported Tuesday that fourth-quarter earnings fell 58 percent in the oil giant's weakest quarter since 2002. The results were even worse at BP, which posted a 91 percent decline in profit.
Tags: jobs
prices
industry
lower
Oil industry cutting jobs, investment to offset lower prices
2016-02-02 23:40:40| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The latest warnings came from Exxon Mobil, which reported Tuesday that fourth-quarter earnings fell 58 percent in the oil giant's weakest quarter since 2002. The results were even worse at BP, which posted a 91 percent decline in profit.
Tags: jobs
prices
industry
lower
Land sparing farming could offset agricultural carbon emissions
2016-01-17 08:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: Agriculture is not responsible for the bulk of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions; that honor goes to more fossil-fuel intensive activities like transportation and generating electricity. Even still, greenhouse gas emissions from global agriculture are climbing by 1 percent a year. Humans did once upon a time live without HDTVs and Hummerswe could do so again, at least in theorybut people will always have to eat. This makes reducing agricultural emissions particularly difficult. Researchers in...
Tags: land
offset
carbon
agricultural
UK tree-planting push could offset farming footprint study
2016-01-12 13:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: British scientists have worked out how to turn agricultural land which currently produces 10% of the nations greenhouse gas emissions into a carbon sink that soaks up carbon dioxide. The answer is simple: take more land out of food production, restore natural habitats, and allow forests to grow again. If, in the next 35 years, the UK increased forest cover from 12% to 30%, and surrendered 700,000 hectares to revert to peat bog, that would be enough to meet government ambitions to reduce...
Tags: study
push
offset
farming
For French Ski Resorts, a Scramble to Offset Snow Deficit
2016-01-11 19:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Bright sunshine and mostly brown slopes welcomed skiers to the Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Valley just before New Year's Eve, a sight that hardly came as a shock. Across France, December 2015 was already on track to be the warmest since 1900, a fact since confirmed by Météo France, the national weather service. The toll of global warming on Alpine ski resorts has already been well documented. A 2006-7 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which landed in the middle of...
Sites : [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] next »