News Forum Archives: February 2006

San Francisco to test turning dog waste into power

Wed, Feb 22, 2006

San Francisco, a leader in urban recycling, is preparing to enlist its canine population for a first in the United States: converting dog poop into energy.

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Posted by Paul on February 22, 2006

Greenland’s glaciers losing ice at faster rate

Satellite observations add new factor to global-warming debate
By Alan Boyle
Science editor
MSNBC
February 16, 2006
ST. LOUIS - Satellite observations indicate that Greenland’s glaciers have been dumping ice into the Atlantic Ocean at a rate that’s doubled over the past five years, researchers reported here on Thursday. The findings add yet another factor to the long-running debate over the effect of climate change on the world’s ice sheets and sea levels.

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Posted by Paul on February 20, 2006

How to beat the high cost of gasoline. Forever.

Ethanol is the answer to the energy dilemma. It’s clean and green and runs in today’s cars.
By Adam Lashinsky
Fortune Magazine
January 24, 2006

You probably don’t know it, but the answer to America’s gasoline addiction could be under the hood of your car. More than five million Tauruses, Explorers, Stratuses, Suburbans, and other vehicles are already equipped with engines that can run on an energy source that costs less than gasoline, produces almost none of the emissions that cause global warming, and comes from the Midwest, not the Middle East.

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Posted by Paul on February 17, 2006

Starving polar bears shame Bush to act

By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
The Independent
12 February 2006

Starving polar bears are presenting an unprecedented challenge to George Bush’s refusal to take action over global warming – and may succeed where environmentalists and other governments have failed in getting him to curb pollution.

Despite the President’s obdurate stance on climate change, the US administration last week took the first steps towards officially listing the bear as an endangered species. The Arctic ice on which the iconic animal lives is melting away as the world heats up and, if the listing is finalised, the Bush administration will be obliged to modify its pollution policies to try to save the bear.

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Posted by Paul on February 11, 2006

“Lost world” found in Indonesian jungle

By Alister Doyle
Environment Correspondent
07 Feb 2006

OSLO, Feb 7 (Reuters) – Scientists said on Tuesday they had found a “Lost World” in an Indonesian mountain jungle, home to dozens of exotic new species of birds, butterflies, frogs and plants.

“It’s as close to the Garden of Eden as you’re going to find on Earth,” said Bruce Beehler, co-leader of the U.S., Indonesian, and Australian expedition to part of the cloud-shrouded Foja mountains in the west of New Guinea.

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Posted by Paul on February 08, 2006

Coral Reefs Cheaper to Protect than Neglect, U.N. Finds

By Alister Doyle, Reuters
January 25, 2006
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OSLO — Costs of safeguarding the world’s fast-disappearing coral reefs and mangroves are small compared to the benefits they provide from tourism to fisheries, the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Tuesday.

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Posted by noble on February 01, 2006