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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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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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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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Depending on operating conditions, the MSG process is capable of producing hydrogen, synthetic natural gas or synthesis gas at high pressure from any carbon-containing material and water. The process is conducted at 1500 – 2000 psi (10.3 - 13.8 The Molten Salt Catalyzed Gasification process has been under development at INL since 2006.

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BP Announces Giant Oil Discovery in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

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BP is currently appraising its deepwater GOM 2006 Kaskida discovery, also projected to contain more than 3 billion barrels in place. The well, located in Keathley Canyon block 102, approximately 250 miles (400 kilometers) south east of Houston, is in 4,132 feet (1,259 metres) of water. Click to enlarge.

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Honda launches new environmental leadership award “Green Dealer” program for Honda and Acura dealers in US

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Silver-level dealers must achieve a 10% reduction in total energy use, develop a water use reduction plan, and implement a comprehensive recycling program. —Steve Center, vice president of the Environmental Business Development Office. The program offers three achievement levels: Silver, Gold, and Platinum.

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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. They used a lot more coal than they originally admitted to, several hundred million tons more. It was underreported.