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Rice-Based Ethanol from Your Friendly Local Distiller (TreeHugger)
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/rice-based_ethanol.p...
Oenon Holdings Inc., an alcoholic beverage maker, has announced it intends on producing ethanol from Japanese rice, a substance known as ethyl tertiary butyl ether (ETBE), to blend with gasoline.
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Submitted by piccolo2385
61 months, 1 day, 14 hours agoTags: Japan, rice, oenon, ETBE, alternative energy 
Houston, We Have a Solution (TreeHugger)
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/houston_we_have_a_so...
Shaopeng Huang, a geophysicist at the University of Michigan, has called for the establishment of an international system of monitoring stations on the lunar surface to study terrestrial climate change.
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Submitted by piccolo2385
61 months, 1 day, 14 hours agoTags: climate change, Michigan, Moon, apollo 
Hot Spot Sight-Seeing (TreeHugger)
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/hot_spot_sight-seein...
Polarstern, the flagship vessel of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), is getting ready to set out for its 22nd Arctic expedition on May 29 with stops planned first in Northern Norway and then Spitsbergen to investigate biodiversity "hot spots".
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Submitted by piccolo2385
61 months, 1 day, 15 hours agoTags: Arctic, biodiversity, corals, hot spot 
Doing what We Do Best: Saving Trees (TreeHugger)
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/saving_trees.php
New research has shown that saving trees could slow the onset of climate change. According to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), nearly 33 million acres of forestland is felled around the world each year, accounting for approximately 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere, or 20 percent of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
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Submitted by piccolo2385
61 months, 2 days, 19 hours agoTags: climate change, deforestation, global warming 
Speaking Out on Global Warming (TreeHugger)
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/speaking_out_on_glob...
James Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York argues that widespread "scientific reticence" poses a threat to the future well-being of the planet by hindering a necessary conversation between scientists and the public over potentially large sea level rises.
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Submitted by piccolo2385
61 months, 2 days, 20 hours agoTags: climate change, global warming, ice sheets, sea levels 
A (GlobCover) Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (TreeHugger)
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/globcover_satellite_...
There's satellite imagery and then there's satellite imagery: as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) GlobCover project, the most detailed pictures ever of the Earth's land surface (ten times sharper than similar previous efforts) have been created with the Envisat environmental satellite.
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Submitted by piccolo2385
61 months, 4 days, 2 hours agoTags: satellite imagery, climate change, united nations 
Trading Carbs for Hydrogen (TreeHugger)
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/trading_carbs_for_hy...
Hydrogen energy enthusiasts, rejoice: the recent revelation of a promising (and tasty) new technology that would convert sugars into hydrogen should breathe some much-needed air into the hydrogen fuel cell movement
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Submitted by piccolo2385
61 months, 5 days, 3 hours agoTags: hydrogen fuel cell, renewable energy, carbohydrates 
Charcoal: The Next Green Alternative (TreeHugger)
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/charcoal_the_next_gr...
Johannes Lehmann, an associate professor of crops and soil sciences at Cornell University, proposes that "biochar" (i.e. charcoal), which is produced when biomass is baked in the absence of oxygen through a process called pyrolysis, be buried, or "sequestered," in the soil as an alternative approach to tackling climate change.
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Submitted by piccolo2385
61 months, 6 days, 3 hours agoTags: climate change, carbon negative, global warming, science 
Butterflies: Harbingers of Climate Change (TreeHugger)
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/butterflies_harbinge...
Some species have broken all records in the extent to which they have pushed forward their normal appearance dates: the Lulworth skipper, which usually makes its first appearance in the third week of June, was seen as early as April 28 while the speckled wood, which typically appears at the end of March, was observed in its Cornwall habitat on January 16, a record seven weeks ahead of schedule.
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Submitted by piccolo2385
61 months, 1 week, 3 hours agoTags: climate change, global warming, butterfly 
With a Little Help from Their Friends... (TreeHugger)
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/with_a_little_help.p...
Researchers in the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park in the Bahamas, one of the areas hardest hit by anthropogenic disturbances and increasing ocean acidity, observed that parrot fishes gave the coral reefs an opportunity to regenerate by grazing away the algae blooms smothering the individual polyps.
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Submitted by piccolo2385
61 months, 1 week, 14 hours agoTags: climate change, corals, global warming, bleaching | |
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