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Environmental, health impacts of US health-care system
2016-06-11 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: If the U.S. healthcare system were a country, it would rank 13th in the world for greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research. The study, published June 9 in PLOS ONE, quantified previously unreported environmental and public health impacts of the nation's healthcare sector. The U.S. healthcare system, the most expensive in the world, uses vast amounts of energy in the form of heating, electricity, and energy-intensive goods and services. It has been estimated that the healthcare sector...
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Keep It Green: Getting our environmental act together
2016-06-11 18:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Phuket Gazette: Whether its mantas or methane, protection or disposal, the world needs to get its act together. First some facts. Half of the worlds carbon dioxide is absorbed by the oceans. That the seas are a sink for CO2 is wonderful; its just that they are being damaged in the process. Hence, the dramatically increased levels of carbonic acid. One result of this acidification is that shellfish have trouble growing shells; another is a decline in key oxygenators: zoo-plankton levels have dropped three per...
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Environmental Group Alleges Scientific Fraud in Disputed Methane Studies
2016-06-11 12:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The inspector general of the Environmental Protection Agency has been asked to examine whether a significant recent study of greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas fields was technically flawed--and whether researchers brushed aside concerns that methane pollution was being understated. The emission of methane, a much more potent greenhouse gas in the short term than carbon dioxide, has proven difficult to measure. The latest complaint is a volley in a long-running skirmish among academics,...
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Gasmet-Gas Monitoring Systems for Industrial and Environmental Applications
2016-06-09 15:40:00| Power Technology
Gasmet is a leading supplier of gas monitoring systems for demanding industrial and environmental applications - typical examples of which are continuous emissions monitoring and stack testing. Gasme...
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In weak nations, environmental stress can tip society into catastrophe
2016-06-09 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Venezuela was unraveling even before Hugo Chávez died in 2013. The situation has only gotten worse since. Despite having the worlds largest oil reserves, inflation has soared to 500 percent, the murder rate is the highest in the world, and chronic shortages of food, water, and medicine make daily life a struggle. A man was recently burned alive outside a supermarket in Caracas for stealing the equivalent of $5. The country has been on a downward spiral for so many years, says Cynthia Arnson, director...
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