Tropical Forests Store More Carbon Than Previously Believed, Study Says
Updated: 2012-01-31 17:31:00
Yale Environment 360: Woods Hole Research Center Biomass in the Democratic Republic of the Congo data -- including cloud-penetrating LiDAR -- and field observations from forests, woodlands and savannas across Africa, Asia, and South America, researchers say they were able to create the first “wall-to-wall” map depicting carbon density. According to their results, Brazilian rainforests store about 53.2 billion tons of carbon, followed by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (22 billion) and Indonesia (18.6). “For the first...
New York Times: Gifford Miller, a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, collecting plant samples from beneath the ice on Baffin Island.
In the winter of 1780, New Yorkers could walk the five miles from Manhattan to Staten Island on ice as thick as eight feet.
This is just one example of what happened during the Little Ice Age, a sudden cooling of global temperatures by one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) that began toward the end of the 13th century and lasted well into the 19th century....
Bloomberg: Renewable energy mergers and acquisitions rose 40 percent in value last year, bucking the uncertainty caused by the European Union debt crisis, the global consultant PwC said today.
About $53.5 billion of wind, solar, biofuels, energy efficiency, geothermal, biomass and hydro deals were completed, up from $38.2 billion in 2010, PwC said in an e-mailed report. It's the highest in the four years that PwC has conducted the survey. The overall number of deals dropped to 570 from 606.
The uptick...
Mongabay: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruled on Friday that palm oil-based biofuels will not meet the renewable fuels standard due to carbon emissions associated with deforestation, reports The Hill.
According to a notice published Friday in the Federal Register, palm oil-based biodiesel fails to meet a requirement that renewable fuels offer a 20 percent reduction in emissions relative to conventional gasoline: Biodiesel and renewable diesel produced from palm oil have estimated lifecycle...
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New York Times: When the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future was established two years ago, after the Obama administration killed a proposed repository for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, one of the items on its agenda was to determine whether spent nuclear fuel was in fact waste.
Among advocates of nuclear power, considerable disagreement exists about whether the spent fuel can be considered waste, given that it contains unused uranium as well as plutonium, which is created in nuclear...
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New York Times: Assisted by technological innovation and years of subsidies, the cost of wind and solar power has fallen sharply — so much so that the two industries say that they can sometimes deliver cleaner electricity at prices competitive with power made from fossil fuels. At the same time, wind and solar companies are telling Congress that they cannot be truly competitive and keep creating jobs without a few more years of government support. Their efforts received a boost on Thursday from President Obama,...
In recent years, the price for solar PV panels has plummeted, falling 30% in 2011 alone. The drop in prices can be attributed in part to cheap, imported panels produced by Chinese manufacturers who benefit from billions of dollars of cheap credit from the Chinese government. But while solar installers benefited from inexpensive panels, manufacturers [...]
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Question: What do President Barack Obama and ex-President Jimmy Carter have in common?
Answer: Both presided over strong increases in domestic oil production that were a result of decisions made before they took office, as I explain in this post.
In my recent post The Oilman in the White House, [...]
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: Wednesday , January 18, 2012 Renewable Energy Law News Week of January 16, 2012 Photo via Flickr Vermont Statehouse 2012 : A legislative preview On Tuesday , 180 lawmakers will converge on the Statehouse after a seven month hiatus for Round 2 of the 2011-2012 biennium . Judging from interviews with committee chairs , the upcoming session will be fast and furious . Lawmakers have an impressive array of complicated issues to address in four short months , and there is little expectation that the session will drag past the first week in May this is an election year after all Long-term recovery plans post-Irene will figure prominently on the docket . Expect to see lively debate on proposals for the new state psychiatric hospital , the state office complex , a reordering of transportation
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If there was one key takeaway from the most recent RenewableEnergyWorld.com and Solar Power-gen webcast it was that the year ahead will be difficult for large-scale solar power development due to poor access to capital, an uncertain policy landscape, the pending trade case against China and module prices that are too low to support a healthy indust
While solar is making steady progress towards the main stream, it ain’ there yet. Many consumers are still suspicious of solar because it’ unfamiliar. They’e seen panels and solar homes in pictures, but it’ not like buying or selling a car… or is it?
Making analogies to something familiar can be very helpful fo
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