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  • Shenzen to be first Chinese city to begin carbon trading Shenzen to be first Chinese city to begin carbon trading

    BEIJING - China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, is set to launch Tuesday its first carbon trading scheme as a pilot project in the southern city of Shenzhen as part of efforts to cut emissions in its key cities. Carbon emissions trading schemes are meant to encourage companies to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by setting a limit or a cap, on the level of emission that can be ...

  • Over 100 Chinese held for environmental pollution

    As many as 118 suspects have been detained in China for their involvement in environmental pollution cases, authorities said Tuesday. The ministry of public security said the suspects were detained since January, Xinhua reported. Most of the pollution cases involve mining or petrochemical factories. Some factories reportedly discharged toxic substances into the environment illegally, while ...

  • Prenatal exposure to chemical in plastic could lead to obesity

    Foetal exposure to common environmental chemical bisphenol A (BPA) causes increased inflammation in fat tissues after birth, which can lead to obesity and metabolic syndrome, a new research has suggested. BPA, found in plastic water bottles, older baby bottles and many other consumer products, is a known hormone disrupter with estrogen-like properties. Study's lead author, Almudena ...

  • UN General Assembly set to explore impacts of ocean acidification UN General Assembly set to explore impacts of ocean acidification

    17 June 2013 150 The United Nations General Assembly will begin today its consideration of the impacts that the increasing acidification of the world's oceans will have on the marine environment and on people. This year's informal Consultative Process on oceans, which opens today and runs through 20 June, will provide a forum for countries to discuss the challenges posed by rising ocean ...

  • Country diary Wenlock Edge Could the psychedelic blueness of these bugle flowers help to heal the land

    Blue as an ambulance light, the patch of bugle flowers in the wood. Once open, maybe a long-abandoned garden before trees took hold, this place becomes the dreamy point of midsummer, with its own reality surrounded by a pervading anxiety. At the entrance to the wood is a pull-in off the lane where cars stop for dog walkers, fly-tipping, canoodling. A man gets out. "A good day for a ...


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Whatever It Takes

It is of little surprise that, in the recent rush to release as many teen-oriented comedies as possible over the last few years, filmmakers have almost completely dropped any notion of trying to create teenage characters that reflect, in any appreciable form, actual human beings. ...

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  • The weather may be grim but lets learn to enjoy it | Richard Mabey

    Everyone bewildered by the seemingly unprecedented weirdness of this year's summer might spare a thought for those living in 1783, who went through another kind of trial by weather. Gilbert White of Selborne's account of the events of 23 June to 20 July is a masterpiece of deadpan gothic: "The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rust coloured ferruginous ...

  • Finavera Reports Results of Annual General and Special Shareholder Meeting

    June 18, 2013 /CNW/ - Finavera Wind Energy Inc. ('Finavera') (TSX-V: FVR) is pleased to announce the results of its Annual General and Special Shareholder Meeting ...

  • Is the future of clean energy a pond of algae in every backyard | Lou del Bello

    The green credentials of biofuel crops have been sullied in recent years. Rienk van Grondelle believes the answer to the world's clean energy needs will be super-efficient ...

  • Scientists Timber at possible Griffin shipwreck site has been in Lake Michigan for centuries

    FAIRPORT, Mich. - Scientists say a wooden beam extending from the floor of northern Lake Michigan appears to have been there for centuries, an important finding as they try to determine whether it's part of the Griffin, the first European-style ship to sail on North America's upper Great Lakes. Marine archaeologists from the U.S. and France are studying the timber and digging a pit ...

  • How Dividend Chasers Are Missing The Forest For The Trees

    Forest (Photo credit: Moyan_Brenn) Conventional wisdom in the market these days says interest rates are going higher. Some investors have tried to get ahead of that trend by pouring money into dividend stocks in recent years, but to Meb Faber a laser-like focus on dividends is akin to missing the forest for the trees. Faber, chief investment officer at El Segundo, California's Cambria ...

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