http://www.wind-power-solutions.com Wind Power Solutions for your home Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:20:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0202-hance_fungus_plastic.html http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0202-hance_fungus_plastic.html#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:05:00 +0000 Jeremy Hance http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/?guid=685f85878f6cec00356363b1722a5163 http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/fungus-from-the-amazon-devours-plastic/feed/ 0 http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0201-hance_sturgeon_esa.html http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0201-hance_sturgeon_esa.html#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:26:00 +0000 Jeremy Hance http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/?guid=ed1b3c39719d59ab2051d5622307d867 http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/atlantic-sturgeon-gains-protection-under-the-endangered-species-act/feed/ 0 http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0130-hance_interview_giantriverotters.html http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0130-hance_interview_giantriverotters.html#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:12:00 +0000 Jeremy Hance http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/?guid=b270b7903e5dd0357684ec2b3ee1a07d Charismatic, vocal, unpredictable, domestic, and playful are all adjectives that aptly describe the giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), one of the Amazon's most spectacular big mammals. As its name suggest, this otter is the longest member of the weasel family: from tip of the nose to tail's end the otter can measure 6 feet (1.8 meters) long. Living in closely-knit family groups, sporting a complex range of behavior, and displaying almost human-like capricious moods, the giant river otter has captured a number of researchers and conservationists' hearts, including Dutch conservationist Jessica Groenendijk.]]> http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/saving-the-worlds-biggest-river-otter/feed/ 0 http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0129-hance_ca_carregs.html http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0129-hance_ca_carregs.html#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:20:00 +0000 Jeremy Hance http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/?guid=45563e20b1b3ea65fe1be01f6ee95406 http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/california-sets-tough-new-clean-car-standards/feed/ 0 http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0124-hance_consumption_marinemammals.html http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0124-hance_consumption_marinemammals.html#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:55:00 +0000 Jeremy Hance http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/?guid=c32db4088abb8ef4b3e12a13a2a08fab http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/87-marine-mammals-still-eaten-by-people/feed/ 0 http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0124-hance_oceanacid.html http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0124-hance_oceanacid.html#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:00:00 +0000 Jeremy Hance http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/?guid=f7bb938185eb0508b624dbec0726b15b http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/acid-oceans-in-some-regions-acidification-a-hundred-times-greater-than-natural-variation/feed/ 0 http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0118-hance_obama_keystone.html http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0118-hance_obama_keystone.html#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:51:00 +0000 Jeremy Hance http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/?guid=1a8b2751f7e1ae17e6c58026896813ec The Obama administration today announced it is scrapping TransCanada's Keystone pipeline after Republicans forced a 60-day deadline on the issue in a Congressional rider. The State Department advised against the pipeline arguing that the deadline did not give the department enough time to determine if the pipeline "served the national interest." The cancellation of the pipeline is a victory for environmental and social activists who fought the project for months, but Republicans are blasting the administration. ]]> http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/obama-rejects-keystone-pipeline-but-leaves-door-open-for-tar-sands/feed/ 0 http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=960b127264bb81d522a6fc4741951720 http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=960b127264bb81d522a6fc4741951720#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:29:19 +0000 By THE NEW YORK TIMES http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/on-our-radar-ships-sinking-stirs-environmental-fears/
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]]> http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/grand-canyon-area-uranium-mines-to-be-blocked-for-20-years/feed/ 0 http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0112-hance_methane_blackcarbon.html http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0112-hance_methane_blackcarbon.html#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:03:00 +0000 Jeremy Hance http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/?guid=71b7cdde3825a972b07b7523a1e1efd8 A new study in Science argues that reducing methane and black carbon emissions would bring global health, agriculture, and climate benefits. While such reductions would not replace the need to reduce CO2 emissions, they could have the result of lowering global temperature by 0.5 degrees Celsius (0.9 degree Fahrenheit) by mid-century, as well as having the added benefits of saving lives and boosting agricultural yields. In addition, the authors contend that dealing with black carbon and methane now would be inexpensive and politically feasible. ]]> http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/targeting-methane-black-carbon-could-buy-world-a-little-time-on-climate-change/feed/ 0 http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1222-top_10_2011.html http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1222-top_10_2011.html#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:31:00 +0000 Jeremy Hance http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/?guid=1b184f0f180e931d7db54126fafa617e Many of 2011's most dramatic stories on environmental issues came from people taking to the streets. With governments and corporations slow to tackle massive environmental problems, people have begun to assert themselves. Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three-year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.]]> http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/top-10-environmental-stories-of-2011/feed/ 0 http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=2579ad77973af67a74e21f23fbd5bbb8 http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=2579ad77973af67a74e21f23fbd5bbb8#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:17:44 +0000 By THE NEW YORK TIMES http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/on-our-radar-china-orders-emission-cuts/
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]]> http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/green-blog-on-our-radar-reports-of-power-plant-protest-in-china/feed/ 0 http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1214-hance_mercury_evangelical.html http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1214-hance_mercury_evangelical.html#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:54:00 +0000 Jeremy Hance http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/?guid=8d59abc2fb0a88377d4e96b2041d6937 http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/media-campaign-says-mercury-pollution-a-pro-life-issue/feed/ 0 http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1214-hance_mekong_newspecies.html http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1214-hance_mekong_newspecies.html#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:05:00 +0000 Jeremy Hance http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/?guid=7ccce3e5095370a04b37c0b4d359a83c Last year researchers scoured forests, rivers, wetlands, and islands in the vanishing ecosystems of the Mekong Delta to uncover an astounding 208 new species over a twelve month period. A new report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) highlights a number of the new species—from a new snub-nosed monkey to five new meat-eating pitcher plants to a an all-female, cloning lizard—while warning that many of them may soon be gone as the Mekong Delta suffers widespread deforestation, over-hunting and poaching, massive development projects, the destruction of mangroves, pollution, climate change, and a growing population. ]]> http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/photos-208-species-discovered-in-endangered-mekong-region-in-2010/feed/ 0 http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1209-co2_air_capture.html http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1209-co2_air_capture.html#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:55:00 +0000 Rhett Butler http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/?guid=0b405d706e7c55898648254ea8276a90 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.]]> http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/direct-air-capture-of-co2-to-fight-global-warming-is-too-expensive-to-be-feasible/feed/ 0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EnvironmentalNewsNetwork/~3/4ZbS5ITGqO4/43668 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EnvironmentalNewsNetwork/~3/4ZbS5ITGqO4/43668#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:48:00 +0000 Andy Soos, ENN http://www.enn.com/enn_original_news/article/43668 ]]> http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/electric-car-rental-in-paris/feed/ 0 http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1205-hance_climate_human.html http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1205-hance_climate_human.html#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:19:00 +0000 Jeremy Hance http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/?guid=00de33fad82dd01fece99e795d5d4fd8 http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/at-least-74-percent-of-current-warming-caused-by-us/feed/ 0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EnvironmentalNewsNetwork/~3/jUZXAUb1orU/43647 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EnvironmentalNewsNetwork/~3/jUZXAUb1orU/43647#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:18:00 +0000 ClickGreen staff http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/43647 ]]> http://www.wind-power-solutions.com/nasa-data-confirms-pollution-has-nearly-halved-from-us-coal-power-plants/feed/ 0