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Polar bear habitat is at risk
from the effects of climate change.
© WWF-Canon / Wim VAN PASSEL
Around the world, climate change is threatening not only individual species such as polar bears, tigers, salmon, penguins and corals, but it is also posing potentially catastrophic and long-term changes to the environment and people’s lives around [...]
Source: Sierra Club
Modern technology is the key to increasing fuel economy and saving oil. Between 1975 and the late 1980s, better engines, transmissions, materials, and aerodynamics accounted for 86% of fuel economy improvements. Existing fuel-saving technology can raise fuel economy even further. In 2002, the National Academies of Sciences found that with current technology [...]
From: Climate Crisis Coalition
Switzerland to Impose a Carbon Tax on Oil Imports
Neue Zurcher Zeitung, June 29, 2007.
Switzerland will introduce a tax on carbon dioxide emissions from January 1, 2008 to meet its Kyoto objectives, the government said on Thursday. The tax will be applied to all imported fossil fuels, amounting to around three centimes on [...]
TreeHugger
On The Hit Parade Of C02 Emissions, China Cements Its Number One Position
by John Laumer, Philadelphia
on 06.20.07
Business & Politics
Carbon dioxide emissions in China last year was just reported to have surpassed those of the US by 8%. Data released by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency indicate that emissions from China were still 2% below those [...]
Sierra Club
The Government Accountability Project has charged that a White House official who previously worked for the oil industry’s lobby group repeatedly edited and altered government climate reports in a way that downplays links between global warming and greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. Philip Cooney, chief of staff for the White House Council on [...]
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