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Ocean Satellite Helps In Understanding How Oceans Are Changing

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Posted by Cristina Frick   
Tuesday, 08 July 2008

An Australian ocean satellite could help in understanding how the world's oceans are changing and in developing better ocean forecasting products.

(read the full story at Environmental News Network)

 

Bridging the Iran-West Divide to Save Cheetahs

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Posted by geri   
Monday, 07 July 2008
cheetah.jpgIranian and Western wildlife experts are working together to save the rare Asiatic cheetah from extinction. Overcoming political differences, U.S.- and British-based conservation groups are cooperating in a mountainous region of Iran with that country's Department of Environment and the UN Development Programme to prevent the endangered Asiatic cheetah from dying out. (Reuters News has the story) ...More on the Iran Cheetah project at The Wildlife Conservation Society
 

Students and Graduates are Pursuing "Green" Careers

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Posted by stevegh   
Monday, 07 July 2008

Students and graduates are increasingly pursuing "green careers" with companies that seek to protect the environment or by starting their own "green" companies.

(see the full story at The Christian Science Monitor)

 

New York State Begins Historic Energy Efficiency Program

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Posted by Cristina Frick   
Saturday, 05 July 2008
New York State has just begun a historic initiative called the Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (EEPS). The project seeks to devote $13 million to natural gas energy efficiency programs through the year 2011 and seeks to reduce the city's electric usage by 15 percent by 2015. The overarching goal of the program is to halt a predicted rise in energy consumption by New Yorkers by the year 2015.
Read more... [New York State Begins Historic Energy Efficiency Program]
 

Trash To Be Turned into Power at Pioneering British Plant

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Posted by carb101   
Friday, 04 July 2008
"In July, a $16 million gasification plant — the first in Britain and one of only a few in the world — will rip into action, transforming 30,000 tons of rubbish a year into electricity for 3,000 homes on the Isle of Wight, and the United States is not far behind." (Full story at the Statesman)
 
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