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20100726-coal-pile.jpg The carbon intensity of coal is so high that CCS technology will only slightly reduce emissions, the report authors say. Photo: Joost J Bakker via flickr. Another take on the how to transition from coal-based electricity and its huge carbon emissions to low-carbon power sources, this time from two researchers from Rice University: A new paper coming out of Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy recommends using natural gas to replace the US' coal po... Read the full story on TreeHugger
playpump mock up image Image via Water for People A few years ago, we reported on the PlayPump, a design that incorporates the power of kids at play to pump and store drinking water for communities in Rural Africa. Five years ago, it seemed like a brilliant idea with a lot of potential, and following the designs release it did get a lot of financial investment and attention from international organizations. However, there are ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
Zephyr solar plane photo Photo: Qinetiq Thanks to Solar Power A week ago we wrote about the Zephyr "Eternal Aircraft", an unmanned solar plane that had just broken many records by staying up in the air for 7 days. Well, the Zephyr has finally landed at the US Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona after 14 days and 24 minutes, setting a new record that will no doubt be broken the next time the Zephyr decides to take off (at this point, breaking records seems to only be a matter of being patient enough, since the so... Read the full story on TreeHugger
nasa ocean dead zones image Image: NASA, public domain. In 2008, 415 Dead Zones Were Identified NASA has just released a new map of oceans showing aquatic dead zones around the world (places where water is so low in dissolved oxygen that sea creatures can't survive, something we've written about a lot Read the full story on TreeHugger
niger cattle photo photo: Joris-Jan van den Boom via flickr Even though locally-adapted, diversified agriculture and farming is a key component of both food security today and in a warmer more climate-stressed future, the Big Ag trend is still towards less crop diversity and more uniformity. Here's a perfect example of the downside of that: The International Livestock Research Institute says urgent action is needed to stop the "rapid and alarming loss of genetic diversity" among African cattle, which not only provide fo... Read the full story on TreeHugger
sexy shower ad grohe multiple head photo Since 1992, federal regulations have required that shower heads deliver no more than 2.5 gallons per minute. But that never stopped companies like Grohe from putting a half dozen of them together to fire at models in their advertising. Some of these multiple head showers pump out 12 gallons per minute. But that is changing; the Wall Street Journal reports that "In May, the DOE stunned the plumbing-products industry when it said it would adopt a strict definition of the term "showerhead" in enforcing standard... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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In this Sierra Club video, athletes speak about their trip to the Gulf Oil Spill. I am back home from my second trip to Louisiana since the oil spill. This time I was joined by other professional athletes to take a tour of the massive environmental catastrophe that is the Gulf oi... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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