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Cleaner, but not clean enough
2014-04-17 14:38:15| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PennLive: When a plane with sophisticated monitoring equipment flew over southwestern Pennsylvania gas drilling sites, checking on how much gas was escaping, the results were startling. Gas coming off the sites was at least 100 times greater than federal regulators had estimated that drilling operations produce. If typical of the thousands and thousands of drilling sites across the nation, the results call into question whether natural gas really is the climate-friendly fuel that helps cut greenhouse...
Clean energy: Is a boom coming in 2014?
2014-04-17 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: After two years of annual declines, investments in clean energy worldwide jumped 9 percent year-over-year in the first quarter of 2014, according to data released Wednesday by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), a London-based energy analysis firm. Solar power led the way with a 23 percent increase, more than offsetting a 16 percent decline in wind power. All told, investors spent $47.7 billion on renewables and energy efficiency in the first three months of this year. Global investment in renewable...
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New Micro-algae Clean Highly Radioactive Waste Cheaply
2014-04-17 08:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: A single-celled green alga that can tolerate extreme conditions may soon be widely used to clean up radioactive effluents and wastewater from nuclear facilities in an inexpensive and environmentally-safe manner. Most organisms are killed by the radioactivity, but the micro-alga Coccomyxa actinabiotis is extremely radioresistant and strongly accumulates radionuclides. Coccomyxa actinabiotis can resist a radiation dose of 20,000 grays (Gy), about 2,000 times the lethal human dose. The gray is...
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Using mushrooms to clean oil spills in the Amazon
2014-04-16 23:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: I've already explored how mushrooms could help clean up pollution in disaster zones like Haiti. Now a crowdfunded research project aims to put that principle to work in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where poorly managed oil exploration has created a legacy of polluted groundwater and toxic soils. Using native species that have been identified as being able to thrive in soils contaminated with hydrocarbons, the Amazon Mycorenewal Project (AMP) is hoping to create scalable solutions for breaking down oil...
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Is clean tech recovery under way? Global clean energy 1st quarter investment climbs 10%
2014-04-16 13:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) has become the latest analyst firm to confirm an uptick in clean energy investment since the turn of the year, with new figures showing global investment rose 10 per cent year-on-year to $47.7bn. The report said the increase in investment activity was driven by a 42 per cent jump in funding for small-scale solar projects to $21.2bn, as the plummeting cost of solar PV systems continued to drive strong demand from businesses and households in key markets such...
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