Jeremy Elton Jacquot
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Artificial Reef to Rise Off of San Clemente to Help Re-Grow Kelp Forests
One of the world's largest and most ambitious artificial reef projects, a 150-acre reef to be built from 125,000 tons of volcanic rock, is finally beginning to take shape off of San Clemente, California, after years of
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Could Fixing the Ozone Layer's Hole Make Global Warming Worse?
Talk about a lose-lose situation: On one hand, not taking any action to repair the hole would allow harmful UV radiation to percolate through; on the other hand, helping to accelerate its recovery could strengthen global warming by
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A Picture is Worth... UNEP's Atlas of Our Changing Environment
Brought to you by the magic of Google Earth/Maps and the UN: the United Nations Environmental Program's (UNEP) stunning world atlas of the changing environment. The interactive atlas allows you to toggle through a dizzying array of satellite images
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Los Angeles Approves Plan to Seed Clouds for Rain with Silver Iodide
How bad has the drought gotten in Los Angeles? Bad enough that the L.A. County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $800,000 cloud seeding proposal last week to elicit more rainfall for the drought-stricken
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Los Angeles Drops 400,000 Balls in Reservoir to Fight Suspected Carcinogen
Yes, only in Los Angeles, you might say. If you'll recall, I wrote a story a few months back about the discovery of a suspected carcinogen, bromate, in two large water reservoirs. The Department of Water & Power's (DWP)
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Volcanic Vents Shed Light on a Future of Ocean Acidification
On this World Ocean Day, I'm taking another look at a phenomenon of global import that still has yet to gain much traction in environmental -- let alone mainstream -- news publications: ocean acidification. I've already covered this
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Portugal's Bold Renewable Push: World's Biggest Solar and Wind Farms
After previously setting a record for having the world's largest PV project (though it was soon to be upstaged by countless other entries), Portugal is set to once again reclaim that title when it breaks ground on a 45
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Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen: Hummer's Gas-Induced Collapse
Remember how GM's Hummer used to be the toast of the town among Hollywood glitterati and certain high placed politicians? It turns out the past few years (and ever-rising gas prices) haven't been kind to its fortunes -- as the LAT's Dan Neil chronicles
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Climate Expert James Hansen Supports Cap-and-Dividend System
| View | Upload your own NYT climate reporter, and Dot Earth blogger, Andy Revkin does a great job getting to the bottom of the various cap and "X" policies currently being bandied around by a number of different scientists and legislators -- focusing
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Ginger Strand on Inventing Niagara and the Excesses of Industrial Development
Many of you took issue (not without reason) with a post I wrote a few months ago in which I cited an article written by author Ginger Strand, entitled "Keyword: Evil" (a dig at Google's mantra, "Don't be evil"), to criticize Google's love of cheap
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Fast Growing Mountains Could Affect Evolution... And the Climate
Who knew mountains, like awkward teens, could have sudden growth spurts? According to a new study published in Science (sub. required), the Andes mountains may have doubled their height in as few as 2 - 4 million years --
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Scottish Company Claims Technology Can Double Vehicles' MPG
If electric vehicles aren't your thing, then you may be pleased to hear that at least one company is working on giving that tried and true internal combustion engine a major boost. Artemis, an Edinburgh, Scotland-based company, has developed a hydraulic
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FAO Takes on Biofuel Subsidies, U.S. Claims 2020 Climate Targets "Unachievable"
As was widely expected, the U.S. and Brazil's biofuel programs came under heavy criticism at the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) food crisis meeting yesterday in Rome. Jacques Diouf, its head, reserved most of his
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EPA Unveils List of Fuel-Efficient Cars for Congressional Leasing Program
After a two-year long uphill battle, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) succeeded in getting his pet project, a fuel-efficient tweak of the federal vehicle-leasing program, approved last year as part of the energy bill. Now, with gas prices hitting new record
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Satellite Images Show Papua New Guinea's Rapid Deforestation
More bad news on the deforestation front (see yesterday's piece about Japan's collapsing beech forests): According to a new report, Papua New Guinea is at risk of losing more than half of its rainforests by 2021 because of commercial logging,
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Global Warming Could Snuff Out World Heritage-Listed Shirakami Forests by 2100
A new report commissioned by the Japanese government predicts that the Shirakami Mountains' beech forests, a UNESCO World Heritage site, could succumb to global warming by the end of the century. An
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Scientist Who Coined "Global Warming" Calls for the Deployment of 20 Million Carbon Scrubbers
When the man who coined the phrase "global warming" speaks up, people tend to pay attention. So it was that when Wallace Broecker, a professor at Columbia University, recently called for the use of millions of giant tree-like "scrubbers" (see here for
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U.N. to Mediate Arctic Dispute: "Carve-Up" Deal in the Works?
A flashpoint of international contention in recent months, the race to lay claim to the Arctic's resources finally came to a head this past week when Greenland hosted a meeting between the five Arctic nations
