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Chevron / Toyota road trip demonstrates renewable gasoline blend

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People from Chevron and Toyota will be driving Toyota’s Tundra, RAV4 and Camry on this road trip with the objective of demonstrating the fuel, which is more than 40% less carbon intensive than traditional gasoline on a lifecycle basis, according to Chevron.

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NOAA Arctic Report Card finds Arctic entering into new phase: warmer, greener, and less ice

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Reports like this one help us to prepare for increasing demands on Arctic resources so that better decisions can be made about how to manage and protect these more valuable and increasingly available resources. With a greener and warmer Arctic, more development is likely. C) greater than the 1981-2010 baseline period.

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DOE to Support Research Associated with Water Issues for Shale Gas and Alaskan Oil and Natural Gas

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As water supplies become scarcer, the protection of existing supplies becomes even more critical and water from oil and natural gas development is being viewed as a potential resource rather than a waste. Such technologies should offer alternatives to the conventional practice of pumping unfrozen water from tundra lakes.

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Toyota launches Collaborative Safety Research Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Such a system will be used to monitor trends in child passenger safety, assess the performance of new safety technologies for children and serve as a national resource to assist researchers, industry and policy-makers to set the agenda for child passenger safety in the US.

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WCS-Led Study Says Some Arctic Nesting Bird Species Declining Near Oil Development

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Resources. Zack (2009) Influence of human development and predators on nest survival of tundra birds, Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska. WCS is engaged in separate studies in remote areas of the western Arctic, evaluating where wildlife protection would be most effective in advance of development. Liebezeit, S. Kendall, S. Johnson, P.

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Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons

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The Florida Coastal Everglades LTER site is one of 26 such NSF LTER sites around the world in ecosystems from forests to tundra, coral reefs to barrier islands. The research also estimates that, although seagrass meadows occupy less than 0.2% We found places where seagrass beds have been storing carbon for thousands of years.

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Ghosn Suggests Renault City EV

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Let's face it, even the perceived eco-leaders such as Toyota oppose higher CAFE standards here as they push high-profit, low-mileage Tundras and Sequoias. in the big trucks, too,” said Deron Lovaas, vehicles expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Don't take my word for it. Toyota wants to keep its green halo and beat G.M.

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