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Ford Becomes First Automaker to Join the Water Disclosure Project

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Ford Motor Company is the first automaker and one of several companies taking a leadership position in joining the Water Disclosure Project , which will establish a water disclosure protocol for companies around the world and promote conservation and stewardship. For the past decade, Ford has made it a priority to conserve water.

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Greenland Ice Cap Melting Faster Than Ever

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Recent warm summers further accelerated the mass loss to 273 Gt per year (1 Gt is the mass of 1 cubic kilometer of water), in the period 2006-2008, which represents 0.75 The Greenland ice sheet contains enough water to cause a global sea level rise of seven metres. mm of global sea level rise per year.

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SDTC awards C$1.5M to support Molten Salt Catalyzed Gasification for hydrogen production; targeting reduced GHG footprint for oil sands synthetic crude

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Hydrogen is necessary in the upgrading of oil sands bitumen into synthetic crude, but it is a costly and carbon-intensive part of the process, given current hydrogen production technologies. The process is conducted at 1500 – 2000 psi (10.3 - 13.8 A consortium led by Canada-based Western Hydrogen Ltd. will receive a $C1.5-million

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Declining Aral Sea

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New Envisat images released by the European Space Agency (ESA) highlight the dramatic retreat of the Aral Sea’s shoreline from 2006 to 2009. This animation shows the shrinkage from 2006 to 2009. By 2000, the Large Aral Sea had split into two: an eastern and western lobe. 1964 , Argon satellite photo. 1987 , Landsat.

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Berkeley Lab releases 8th edition of databook on China’s energy and environment; finding the “missing” energy consumption

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Like many other people, we were writing articles around 2000 about the decline in China’s energy consumption in the late 1990s. Compared to 2005-2006, it has probably doubled its presence. The other part of the story is China’s dramatic jump in renewable energy production. It was underreported.

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UN Review of Recent Climate Research Concludes That Impacts Of Climate Change Coming Faster Than Anticipated

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Losses of tropical and temperate mountain glaciers affecting perhaps 20-25% of the human population in terms of drinking water, irrigation and hydro-power. per year from 2000-2007. Global emissions were growing by 1.1% each year from 1990-1999 and this accelerated to 3.5%

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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Remember when the dot.com bubble burst in 2000 and, seemingly overnight, some companies ceased making millions hand-over-fist? Solar PV installations in Asia grew by over 57% from 2006-2010, and 2010 showed an incredible 100% increase from 2009 [ 3 ] and yet China still exports nearly 95% of their total PV production.

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