Could economics doom ailing Calif. nuke plant?
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Activists critical of the nuclear industry argue it’s too dangerous to restart a damaged plant with 7.4 million people living within 50 miles of its twin domes. The tube damage “has the potential to cause extremely serious releases of radioactivity …
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Belgium Wednesday decided to extend the life of one of its oldest nuclear reactors by a decade to avoid the danger of blackouts while atomic power is phased out, but agreed to stick to a 2025 target date to exit nuclear power. … Mr. Wathelet said …
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Australia to Invest $10 Million in New Wave Energy Technologies
Australia to Invest $10 Million in New Wave Energy Technologies
Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:18 PM PDT
The Australian government has announced it will use its $126 million Emerging Renewables fund to invest almost $10 million in two new Australian-developed wave technology systems, one of which claims to be the largest ever wave energy turbine.Martin Ferguson, the Resources and Energy Minister, believes that “wave energy is still very much an emerging technology and this funding will position Australia as a global leader in developing this technology.”$5.6 million will be invested in a 250kW plant developed by BioPower Systems. The new… -
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As the world’s leading resource accountant, Global Footprint Network measures trends. Too often, our data reveals worrisome trends. The Ecological Footprint accounting tool, the gold standard for measuring how much biocapacity we have and how much we use, shows most countries—and the entire world—going further into ecological overshoot. It was a message we delivered repeatedly at the Rio+20 Earth Summit last month.
We see other trends, too—trends that give hope, trends that make us believe that we can still reverse the tide. Sometimes, they are hard to recognize. Amid the gloom of recent weeks, for example, anyone would have been hard-pressed to remain optimistic. Consider, first, the headlines.
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Our Ecological Footprint work was honored with two significant prizes last month in Rio de Janeiro. On June 17, Japan’s Asahi Glass Foundation awarded the prestigious Blue Planet Prize to Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network’s president, and Bill Rees, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, in recognition of their work in developing the Ecological Footprint accounting system. Thomas Lovejoy, Professor at George Mason University, shared the award for his pioneering work in biodiversity conservation, especially in his research on how human-caused habitat fragmentation causes biodiversity loss.
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Fish learn to cope in a high carbon dioxide world, new study suggests
ScienceDaily: Oceanography News
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Fish learn to cope in a high carbon dioxide world, new study suggests
Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:41 AM PDT
Some coral reef fish may be better prepared to cope with rising carbon dioxide in the world’s oceans — thanks to their parents. Encouraging new findings show that some fish may be less vulnerable to high CO2 and an acidifying ocean than previously feared.
Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:41 AM PDT
Some coral reef fish may be better prepared to cope with rising carbon dioxide in the world’s oceans — thanks to their parents. Encouraging new findings show that some fish may be less vulnerable to high CO2 and an acidifying ocean than previously feared.