je.st
news
Tag: levels
3 hurt in blast that levels North Texas house
2013-01-12 02:43:09| Energy - Topix.net
An explosion Friday in a North Texas neighborhood leveled a home that is part of a nonprofit group's affordable housing program, injuring three men and scattering debris.
Tags: house
north
levels
texas
The Link Between Global Warming, Sea Levels And Volcanoes
2013-01-11 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Rising seas pose some of the biggest emerging challenges to the world, as coastal urban areas face higher water and dangerous storms, protected only by weak, sometimes crumbling 20th-century flood defenses. But sea level rise, largely the result of manmade climate change, may have effects that go far beyond catastrophic flooding: a new paper shows how higher water may lead to increased volcanic activity. Lets get this out of the way: this isnt going to cause any immediate problems. Governments...
Treaty 'insufficient' to reduce global mercury levels
2013-01-11 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Even as government negotiators from around the world prepare to gather next week for a final round of talks on a new international treaty limiting the use of mercury, scientists and activists are warning that the draft treaty is both too weak and too limited in scope to have a major impact. "Based on what's happened so far, based on the draft text, we have strong doubts that the treaty will actually be sufficient to reduce global levels of mercury in fish and seafood," Joe DiGangi, a science and...
Tags: global
levels
reduce
mercury
EU to revive debate on minimum energy tax levels
2013-01-11 16:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: EU officials are to debate a new set of tax proposals to promote clean fuel and erode fiscal advantages that have made diesel relatively cheap, a document seen by Reuters showed. The Commission has long been seeking to change energy taxation, but some member states have repeatedly thwarted progress and are likely to continue to do so. Taxation law in the European Union requires the unanimity of all 27 member states, which is almost impossible to achieve. Luxembourg, for instance, has been...
Tags: minimum
levels
energy
tax
Mercury Levels in Humans and Fish Regularly Exceed Health Advisory Levels
2013-01-10 14:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A new scientific report finds that humans and marine ecosystems around the world are contaminated with mercury and that mercury levels in humans and fish regularly exceed health advisory guidelines. The report, a collaboration between International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN) and Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI), highlights the urgent need for an overall reduction in mercury emissions when government delegates convene next week in Geneva in their final negotiating session to establish an...
Tags: health
levels
fish
humans
Sites : [193] [194] [195] [196] [197] [198] [199] [200] [201] [202] [203] [204] next »