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Interview: How British Columbia Gained by Putting Price on Carbon
2015-04-30 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Earlier this month, Ontario announced it will join the carbon cap-and trade-program that Quebec and California currently participate in. That makes Ontario the fourth Canadian province to put a price on carbon. Alberta taxes its largest carbon emitters, including oil sands and power producers. And in 2008, British Columbia became the first jurisdiction in North America to adopt an economy-wide carbon tax. Stewart Elgie, a professor of law and economics at University of Ottawa, has analyzed the...
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Power producer TransAlta looking at reviving carbon capture and storage plans
2015-04-29 05:43:05| Energy - Topix.net
TransAlta Corp. may take another run at adding carbon capture technology to one of its Alberta coal plants, its CEO said Tuesday. "It's more than a glint in our eye," Dawn Farrell told reporters following the power generator's annual general meeting.
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Partially Logged Rainforests May Emit More Carbon than Thought
2015-04-28 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: It is well known that tropical deforestation is just as costly as carbon pollution when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. But while research has mostly focused on forests that have been completely mowed down, scientists are now saying that partially logged forests play just as crucial a role, and may emit more carbon than previously thought. That's at least according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, which details how global carbon emissions from forests...
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Warming Climate May Release Massive Carbon Storehouse Arctic Soils
2015-04-28 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: It's no secret that our warming climate is causing ice everywhere to melt, but now new research shows that this thaw may release a massive storehouse of carbon in long-frozen Arctic soils. This could potentially have a catastrophic effect on climate change, which is already wreaking havoc on the environment and wildlife around the world. While climatologists have been closely monitoring carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere, it seems they should be focusing just as much on what's under...
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Amazon: 1% of trees store 50% carbon
2015-04-28 17:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: About 1% of all the tree species in the Amazon account for half of the carbon locked in the vast South American rainforest, a study has estimated. Although the region is home to an estimated 16,000 tree species, researchers found that just 182 species dominated the carbon storage process. Amazonia is vital to the Earth's carbon cycle, storing more of the element than any other terrestrial ecosystem. The findings appear in the journal Nature Communications. "Considering that the Amazon is massively...
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