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16/5/2008
Toyota's green machine clocks up 1 million sales, Associated Press
TOYOTA'S Prius started out a decade ago as a risky experiment in green technology. Today it is the world's first mass-produced petrol-electric hybrid car to hit 1 million in sales. The Prius went on sale in Japan in 1997 and is ...   
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16/5/2008
As food prices shoot up, so do backyard gardens, Christian Science Monitor
Think of it as a modern-day Victory Garden. With gasoline prices soaring and food costs not far behind, the number of Americans planning to grow their own backyard vegetables this year is up sharply. Gardening ...   
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15/5/2008
Human intervention alters natural systems: NASA study, Indo-Asian News Service
Human intervention has caused widespread climatic alterations like permafrost thawing, premature blooming of plants across Europe and declining lakes in Africa, according to a NASA study. Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA and co-author of the ...   
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15/5/2008
A $3 trillion climate change battle, Fortune
 climate-change bill that has widespread support as it heads to the Senate floor will create an estimated $150 billion of new assets in the first year it takes effect. Between now and 2050, regulating greenhouse gases could easily ...   
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15/5/2008
Seeking an Amazon solution, BBC
Seen from a small boat emerging from Puraquequara lagoon into the full flow of the Amazon River, this is a world reduced to water, trees and sky. It's a full three kilometres to the other side and at that distance even the forest ...   
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15/5/2008
Texas: Maverick oilman Pickens puts $2B bet on wind power, Associated Press
Maverick oilman T. Boone Pickens has placed a $2 billion bet on wind power in just the first of a four-phase project to build the world's largest wind farm in Texas. Pickens said the total cost of the deal will grow considerably ...   
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15/5/2008
Expert warns climate change will lead to 'barbarisation', Guardian
Climate change will lead to a "fortress world" in which the rich lock themselves away in gated communities and the poor must fend for themselves in shattered environments, unless governments act quickly to curb greenhouse gas ...   
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15/5/2008
Half of energy executives fear renewables bubble – report, Environmental Finance
Half of the world’s energy companies believe that there is a “real risk” of a bubble in the renewable technology sector, according to a KPMG report released this week. Turning up the Heat, a global survey of more than 200 senior ...   
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15/5/2008
Shell: Crude shortfalls will boost renewables, Bloomberg
Royal Dutch Shell said the failure of crude suppliers to keep pace with accelerating demand may prompt the expansion of renewable energy. There's "plenty of oil in the world," Shell's Scenario Team said today on a ...   
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15/5/2008
Nitrogen pollution harming ecosystems and contributing to global warming, Mongabay
Nitrogen pollution of the world's oceans is harming marine ecosystems and contributing to global warming, report two reviews published in the journal Science. The research, which involved dozens of scientists from around the ...   
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15/5/2008
Climate change A moment of truth, Economist
FOR the system that is supposed to make it easier for people in the rich world to cut the greenhouse emissions of the poor, a “binary moment” has come. That, at the least, is the prediction of a banker with an interest in the future of ...   
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15/5/2008
Prince Charles calls for rainforest protection to fight climate change, Mongabay
Ending the destruction of tropical rainforests is the simplest step to helping address climate change, said Prince Charles in an interview with the BBC. Speaking on the BBC's Today program, Charles said he supported the ...   
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15/5/2008
Mankind is the 'Earth's biggest threat', Telegraph
Researchers who analysed 30,000 academic studies dating back to 1970 said man was responsible for changes that ranged from the loss of ice sheets to the collapse in numbers of many species of wildlife. "Humans are ...   
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15/5/2008
World's wildlife and environment already hit by climate change, major study shows, Guardian
Global warming is disrupting wildlife and the environment on every continent, according to an unprecedented study that reveals the extent to which climate change is already affecting the world's ecosystems. Scientists examined ...   
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15/5/2008
US Study Sees Threat From Big-Particle Pollutants, Reuters
On days when there is a lot of dust and other large-particle pollutants in the air, slightly more elderly people go to hospital emergency rooms with heart problems, US researchers said on Tuesday. There was also an increase in ...   
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15/5/2008
Giant Study Pinpoints Changes From Climate Warming, Reuters
Human-generated climate change made flowers bloom sooner and autumn leaves fall later, turned some polar bears into cannibals and some birds into early breeders, a vast global study reported on Wednesday. Hundreds of previous ...   
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15/5/2008
Polar Bears Listed As US Threatened Species, Reuters
Polar bears were listed on Wednesday as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act because their sea ice habitat is melting away. However, this new protection does not aim to reduce climate change -- which environmentalists ...   
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15/5/2008
Greenhouse Gases Highest For 800,000 Years-Study, Reuters
Greenhouse gases are at higher levels in the atmosphere than at any time in at least 800,000 years, according to a study of Antarctic ice on Wednesday that extends evidence that mankind is disrupting the climate. Carbon dioxide ...   
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15/5/2008
Economic Slowdown Challenges Solar Industry-EPIA, Reuters
The economic slowdown, regulatory conflicts and competition from China pose the main risks to future growth of the solar industry, the head of the European Photovoltaic Industry Associations told Reuters. "The two key ...   
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15/5/2008
Merkel Says Brazilian Biofuels Must Respect Amazon, Reuters
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Brazil on Wednesday to adopt tougher environmental standards in producing biofuels but said rich nations needed to pay up to help protect rain forests and their biodiversity. Brazil is the ...   
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15/5/2008
Lula Seen Putting Brazil Economy Ahead Of Amazon, Reuters
Hailed as Brazil's first "green president" when he took office, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva appears to have thinner environmental credentials than ever after the resignation of Amazon defender Marina Silva. The former rubber tapper ...   
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15/5/2008
Seed giants see gold in climate change, Asia Times
First the biotech industry promised that its genetically engineered seeds would clean up the environment. Then they told us biotech crops would feed the world. Neither came to pass. Soon we'll hear that genetically engineered ...   
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15/5/2008
Japan debates own 2050 emission cut target, Reuters
Japan is debating whether to set a target for cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, but reaching a conclusion before the G8 in July summit is not a "diplomatic imperative", a foreign ministry official ...   
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15/5/2008
Shell Joins IEA's Carbon Capture Research Project in Canada, Bloomberg
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe's largest oil company, joined the International Energy Agency's carbon capture and storage research project in Canada. Shell agreed to co-sponsor the research along with Chevron Corp, OMV AG, Saudi ...   
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15/5/2008
Canada: It’s time to put a lid on bottled water, Westender
The water that comes out of most city taps in Canada is pretty clean. Yet many people prefer to spend money on bottled water, believing that it is somehow safer. Now we’re learning that the stuff in plastic water bottles may be more ...   
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