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| Will Tropical Forests Play a Role in Cutting U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions? American Electric Power Co. Inc. and Duke Energy Corp. joined other businesses and environmental groups today in announcing their unified support for provisions for protecting tropical forest in cap-and-trade legislation.The coalition reached an agreement [pdf] with two major facets. The groups support using 5 percent of valuable greenhouse gas emission allowances under the bill's cap-and-trade system to prevent tropical deforestation and reduce international forest emissions. They also want companies to receive credits for tropical forest protection activities. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Turbines Spin in Antarctica Wind energy is being harnessed everywhere, even Antarctica. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Should Troops Be Used to Clean Up the Environment? Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit today to Goma, a city in the heart of the war ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo , is meant to draw attention to renewed U.S. support for U.N. peacekeeping and to press thinly stretched troops deployed there to do more to protect innocent civilians.But how much more can overburdened peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and elsewhere be expected to do? Increasingly -- and controversially -- they find themselves busy doing environmental cleanups, climate change mitigation projects and providing relief from natural disasters on top of their security duties. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Extinct black-footed ferret returns to Canada For the first time in more than 70 years, black-footed ferrets ( Mustela nigripes ) are now living wild on Canadian soil. Last Friday, the Toronto Zoo released 34 black-footed ferrets into the prairies of Grasslands National Park in southern Saskatchewan near the U.S. border. The endangered species--once "probably the rarest mammals on Earth," according to the Black-Footed Ferret Recovery Program --disappeared from Canada in 1937, and was thought to have gone completely extinct around 1974. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Subcontinental Smut: Is Soot the Culprit Behind Melting Himalayan Glaciers? SAN FRANCISCO--The Himalaya Mountain region is warming up three to five times faster than the global trends--or about half a degree Celsius per decade--and many of its glaciers are rapidly losing mass. Greenhouse gases alone cannot explain this warming, however, and several new studies are pointing to an old form of pollution: soot. [More] rss.sciam.com |