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Could Australia really dismantle carbon price?
2014-05-26 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The new conservative government in Australia proposes to be the first country in the world to abolish a legislated price on carbon emissions. Could Australia really go down this path? First, a bit of background. The former Labor government was elected in 2007 in a historic landslide. The defeated prime minister had refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol for over a decade, and the new Rudd government made a symbolic gesture with its first official act to ratify the protocol. The Labor government's...
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Agriculture, Mining Releases Carbon Trapped in Ancient Soils, Researchers Say
2014-05-26 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers said that ancient soils store large amounts of trapped carbon. The carbon from this soil, which is now being released due to erosion, agriculture and mining could contribute to climate change, researchers said. "There is a lot of carbon at depths where nobody is measuring," said Erika Marin-Spiotta, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of geography and the lead author of the new study. "It was assumed that there was little carbon...
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8-2010 Carbon Plate Market
2014-05-25 22:21:05| Steel - Topix.net
Most steel suppliers expect a second half for the plate market that is much like the first-a slow, steady recovery marked by periods of fluctuating demand.
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Report underestimated loss of carbon from tropical rainforests
2014-05-24 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A soon-to-be-published report is set to say that the amount of carbon being lost by the degradation of tropical rainforests is underestimated. The new research says the current method of using satellites to assess tree numbers is ineffective at monitoring selective logging and fringe element deforestation. Lead author Dr Erika Berenguer from Lancaster University told the BBC, Its been completely overlooked. When we talk about deforestation, we completely remove the forest and all that carbon...
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SABIC, Lockheed Martin to partner on carbon nanostructure materials
2014-05-23 16:32:00| Canadian Plastics Headlines
Thermoplastic material supplier SABIC is partnering with Lockheed Martin to explore the establishment of a new joint venture company in Saudi Arabia to develop carbon nanostructure materials for a variety of security and aerospace end markets...
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