The Change Mariner: Category: Area

December 31, 2004

Iranian Researcher Invents New Technique for Refining Paper Industry Wastewater

MerhrNews.com An Iranian researcher for the first time in the world came up with a new technique for refining the wastewater resulted from paper industries by making use of the minerals, news reports said on December 29th, 2004. By the...

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April 17, 2004

Warming Climate Disrupts Life in Alaska

Yahoo! News: Anyone who doubts the gravity of global warming should ask Alaska's Eskimo, Indian and Aleut elders about the dramatic changes to their land and the animals on which they depend. Native leaders say that salmon are increasingly susceptible...

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March 30, 2004

Study: Nanoparticles Toxic in Aquatic Habitat

Washington Post: The first study to look at the health effects of microscopic, manufactured "nanoparticles" on aquatic animals has found troubling evidence that the molecules -- which scientists are starting to make for research and industry -- can trigger organ...

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March 29, 2004

Silicon Valley Plan to Combat Global Warming

San Jose Mercury News: In one of the first programs of its kind in the United States, a coalition of major Silicon Valley companies is set to announce today a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to collectively combat global...

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Ocean "Dead Zones" Threaten Planet

Yahoo! News: The spread of oxygen-starved "dead zones" in the oceans, a graveyard for fish and plant life, is emerging as a threat to the health of the planet, experts say. For hundreds of millions of people who depend...

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March 21, 2004

C02 Hits Record Levels, Researchers Find

Yahoo! News: Carbon dioxide, the gas largely blamed for global warming, has reached record-high levels in the atmosphere after growing at an accelerated pace in the past year, say scientists monitoring the sky from this 2-mile-high station atop a Hawaiian...

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March 4, 2004

Swiss Re Warns of Global Waming Catastrophe

The world's second-largest reinsurer, Swiss Re, warned on Wednesday that the costs of natural disasters, aggravated by global warming, threatened to spiral out of control, forcing the human race into a catastrophe of its own making. In a report...

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February 22, 2004

The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare

Fortune.com by David Stipp : The climate could change radically, and fast. That would be the mother of all national security issues. Scientists generally refuse to say much about that, citing a data deficit. But recently, renowned Department of Defense...

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January 6, 2004

Sperm counts have dropped by a almost third in 10 year

Yahoo! News: Male sperm counts have fallen by almost a third since 1989, with factors such as drinking and obesity possibly to blame, according to a British study. A survey of 7,500 men who attended the Aberdeen Fertility Centre in...

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December 9, 2003

Record Solar Power Flight Attempt Unveiled

SolarAccess.com: A team of aviators and scientists led by Dr. Bertrand Piccard, the first man together with Brian Jones to circle the earth non-stop in a balloon in 1999, announced plans to develop an aircraft powered by the sun and...

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December 4, 2003

China's Power Supply Not Developing at Same Speed as Its Economy

BBC: The state Xinhua news agency said the shortfall was caused by insufficient coal supplies and a seasonal drought, which limits the production of hydro-electricity. Shopping centres and department stores will have to turn off their heating for two hours...

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China Power plants hunger for coal - but need more efficient markets

xinhuanet: Seven major electricity producers in China have recently appealed for state intervention to solve their acute coal shortages, which has gravely hampered normal electricity production. In the petition, filed to relevant departments of the central government, the seven enterprises...

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November 24, 2003

Military gets break from environmental rules

CSMonitor: "...Specifically, the Department of Defense authorization bill that President Bush is scheduled to sign Monday eases the military's responsibility under two important environmental laws. The bill allows the Navy to redefine "harassment" under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, making...

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November 23, 2003

Signs of radical change in Arctic ecosystem

SeattleTimes: Shrubs are appearing where before there were none; gray whales are venturing farther north; clams and their predators, diving sea ducks, are less plentiful. The ice is melting. These disparate phenomena are signs of a radical change in the...

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November 21, 2003

China Plans to Impose Fuel-Economy Standards More Stringent Than US

Salon: In just a few years, new cars in China, a developing nation that is not renowned for being a paragon of environmental virtue, will be required to be more fuel efficient than automobiles in the United States. According to...

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Global warming gas emissions on dramatic rise

Daily Star Worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide, considered a culprit in global warming, are expected to increase by 3.5 billion tonnes, or 50 percent, annually by the year 2020, an executive for ExxonMobil Corp said on Wednesday. At the same...

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November 16, 2003

As fishing falls off, rural Alaska wants oil

CSMonitor: But now, eight years after a federal move to buy back oil leases in the vast Bay, residents and state officials are doing what would have seemed unthinkable not long ago: inviting oil firms back. The reversal reflects the...

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November 14, 2003

Superfund Program Virtually Bankrupt

CSMonitor: But now, the government fund that's paid for that cleanup at a cost of more than $1 billion a year is virtually bankrupt. At the same time, it's becoming harder and harder to clean up the remaining, really nasty...

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November 12, 2003

Air and Water in Leading Chinese Cities Rank as Dirtiest in World

NYT: ... The country's economy is growing faster than any other. But the air and water in many of its leading cities rank as the dirtiest in the world, and the number of people who die at work, 11,500 through...

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November 2, 2003

Looking Outside for Lead Danger

NYT ... But thousands of children tested each year still have lead levels in their blood high enough to raise health concerns. At least part of the reason, city health officials and other experts say, may be the broader environment...

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November 1, 2003

In Montana, the next Arctic Refuge debate

CS Monitor ... In a debate starkly reminiscent of the battle over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the Montana Front lands are the latest to join America's heated debate over energy production and wildlife. At issue: would...

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First large scale release of nanotechnology product into the environment provokes concern

Cordis An international action group has expressed its concern following the largest environmental release to date of a product created using nanotechnology. A solution intended to prevent erosion has been sprayed on 1,400 acres of Taos Pueblo Native Indian...

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October 30, 2003

A new idea in prairie conservation

CS Monitor ... Like their neighbors, Carl Kurtz and his wife, Linda, have been spending long hours on the combine. Rather than corn or beans, however, the fruits of their labors - spread out in billowy piles on their barn...

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October 28, 2003

EU cracks down on household chemicals

Washington Times: The European Union announced a program Tuesday to increase its regulation of chemicals found in many household items. The BBC said the new regulations would require companies to disclose basic data on all the chemicals they produce. Around...

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October 23, 2003

Car Sharing Spurring Fundamental Travel Changes

UC Berkeley News: San Francisco Bay Area's City CarShare, a non-profit car sharing organization, is showing measurable impacts in reducing vehicular travel, individual transportation costs, private car ownership and environmental hazards, according to a new University of California, Berkeley, report....

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October 22, 2003

China's Boom Adds to Global Warming Problem

NYT China's rapid economic growth is producing a surge in emissions of greenhouse gases that threatens international efforts to curb global warming, as Chinese power plants burn ever more coal while car sales soar. Until the last few months, many...

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October 16, 2003

Norton Signs Historic Water Pact in West

Aberdeen News (South Dakota): Interior Secretary Gale Norton signed a deal Thursday meant to end years of bickering among California and six other states that rely on Colorado River water. The deal ensures more water for fast-growing cities in Southern...

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Shellfish Linked To Medicine Breakthrough

Ananova (UK): Scientists say poisonous shellfish that live on coral reefs could provide a cornucopia of new medicines. Yet just as scientists are beginning to discover the potential of cone snails, they are coming under threat. Dr Eric Chivian, from...

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October 15, 2003

New global treaty proposed to control climate change and improve health

Eureka Alert: A global treaty focusing on intercontinental air pollution could be a better approach to controlling climate change than the Kyoto Protocol, according to a new scientific study. By cooperating to reduce pollutants like ozone and aerosols, countries could...

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October 14, 2003

Kraft Foods Makes Unprecedented Commitment to Taking Sustainable Coffee Mainstream

Environmental Network News: The Rainforest Alliance today announced a unique partnership with Kraft Foods to promote sustainability and equity from the coffee farm to the consumers' cup. In an unprecedented multi-year arrangement, Kraft Foods has committed to purchase over 5...

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September 27, 2003

Windmill industry surges

Contra Costa Times: A new gust of wind-propelled electricity is blowing into California. The largest windmill farm in the state began selling power this month from the Delta town of Rio Vista. And more windmills are proposed or are being...

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September 20, 2003

Tidal Current Into Electric Current

Yahoo! News - Moon Brings Novel Green Power to Arctic Homes Homes on the Arctic tip of Norway started getting power from the moon on Saturday via a unique subsea power station driven by the rise and fall of...

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September 19, 2003

Economic Solar Power?

PACKETONLINE: Princeton University electrical engineers have invented a technique for making solar cells that could lead to a highly economical source of energy. The results, reported in the Sept. 11 issue of Nature, move scientists closer to making a new...

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September 17, 2003

Safer, More Fuel-Efficient SUV Developed

Yahoo! News: Engineers opposed to gas-guzzling SUVs say they have developed a safer, more fuel efficient version using off-the-shelf technology. The Union of Concerned Scientists says the SUV, dubbed the "UCS Guardian," uses the same amount of gas as a...

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August 22, 2003

New pollution rule would help energy industry continue pollution levels

Seattle PI.com After more than two years of internal deliberation and intense pressure from industry, the Bush administration has settled on a regulation that would allow thousands of older power plants, oil refineries and industrial units to make extensive upgrades...

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August 20, 2003

Arizona's 1st wild condor chick in decades discovered

Tucson Citizen: It's a first. Biologists don't know if it's a boy or a girl, but the first condor chick born in the wild in Arizona since records have been kept has been sighted in a remote cave at the...

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August 19, 2003

DNA May Help ID Great White Sharks

The Ledger (Florida): Scientists are developing DNA technology to distinguish great white sharks from other sharks, working to save one of the ocean's top predators. The research is being conducted by scientists from Nova Southeastern University's Guy Harvey Research Institute...

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August 13, 2003

Global warming (?) is choking the life out of Lake Tanganyika

Independent.UK Studies by two independent teams of scientists have found local temperature rises and climate change have dramatically altered the delicate nutrient balance of the lake, Africa's second largest body of fresh water. ... Piet Verburg, of the University of...

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August 12, 2003

Hydrogen Revolution?

CTNow.com The 100-year run of the gasoline engine may end here, in an unpretentious riverside office park in western Canada. Inside, casually dressed employees walk unhurriedly around a modest-sized factory floor, overseeing the secretive process of manufacturing fuel cells, simple...

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Has the Sea Given Up Its Bounty?

New York Times Most of the earth's surface is covered by oceans, and their vastness and biological bounty were long thought to be immune to human influence. But no more. Scientists and marine experts say decades of industrial-scale assaults are...

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May 23, 2003

Giant Dam Is Problem for Environment But Opportunity for Ecoscience

Ascribe.org: China's Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam project ever, has been seen by ecologists as an environmental disaster in the making. With construction scheduled to be completed later this year, little can be done to stop it, but...

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