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Carbon emissions: Catch them if you can

(CNN) -- Despite plans to slash carbon dioxide (C02) emissions, the world still faces a very basic, and very big, problem. Many scientists believe the CO2 "tipping point" has been passed already. There is already too much C02 sitting in the ...

From CNN: RACHEL OLIVER, EcoEarth News,  5 May 2008
Related Topics: NASA,  James Hanson,  James Lovelock,  Columbia University

Food and fossil fuels

(CNN) -- Eating ethically is no easy task these days. One problem is deciding which ethic is more important. Keeping third-world farmers in fair trade jobs by purchasing their produce? Or assuaging your concerns over the environmental impact of ...

From CNN: RACHEL OLIVER, EcoEarth News,  17 Mar 2008
Related Topics: University of Chicago

All About: Eco-philanthropy

(CNN) -- If the excessive lifestyles of the rich have been partly to blame for destroying the environment, then it seems equitable that they use their money to preserve it. But the degree to which they are actually helping does largely depend on what ...

From CNN: RACHEL OLIVER, EcoEarth News,  2 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Merrill Lynch,  Bill Clinton,  George Soros,  Richard Branson,  Ted Turner

Rich, poor and climate change

One-sixth of the world's population will face water shortages because of retreating glaciers (World Development Movement) 1 billion of the poorest people on Earth will lose their livelihoods to desertification (UNEP) More than 200 million ...

From CNN: RACHEL OLIVER, EcoEarth News,  17 Feb 2008
Related Topics: United Nations

All About: Forests and carbon trading

(CNN) -- Cutting down trees is pretty much one of the worst things you can do when it comes to climate change. Deforestation, by varying accounts, contributes anywhere from 20 percent to 30 percent of all carbon dioxide (C02) emissions -- around 1.6 ...

From CNN: RACHEL OLIVER, EcoEarth News,  10 Feb 2008
Related Topics: World Bank,  United Nations,  Google Inc.

Greener driving

Nearly 50 percent of the world's auto-related greenhouse gas emissions Nearly one quarter of all U.S. carbon dioxide emissions Nearly two-thirds of U.S. carbon monoxide emissions One-third of U.S. nitrogen oxide emissions One quarter of ...

From CNN: RACHEL OLIVER, EcoEarth News,  14 Jan 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Energy Corp.,  General Motors,  Ford Motor Company,  ExxonMobil

All About: Cities and energy consumption

(CNN) -- Humans can now officially be called an urban species. More than half of the global population now live in cities and the United Nations says that by 2030, 60 percent of us will live in them. People in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong, ...

From CNN: RACHEL OLIVER, EcoEarth News,  31 Dec 2007
Related Topics: United Nations

All About: CSP

(CNN) -- What if you could provide the world with an endless supply of virtually carbon-free electricity; ensure a constant source of drinkable water to the world's most vulnerable areas; avert some of the world's future humanitarian crises; and save ...

From CNN: RACHEL OLIVER, EcoEarth News,  13 Nov 2007
Related Topics: CSP Inc.,  David Mills,  Google Inc.

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