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«It's not of any significance compared to the anthropogenic [manmade] budget,» said Kjetil Toerseth, director of regional and global pollution at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research.

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The forces at play today include technology and cost breakthroughs that make clean energy increasingly competitive, as well as a rapidly growing domestic and global market for clean energy solutions fuelled by the desire of governments and citizens to reduce carbon pollution.»

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its -LSB-...]

At in - cosmetics Global 2018, Lonza Consumer Product Ingredients (Stand E80) will showcase its new spectrum of bioactive functional ingredients that help protect the skin from modern lifestyle and environmental stressors, such as pollution, UV light and stress.

In anticipation of its activities at Natural Products Expo West, The Organic Center released new research findings from the University of Virginia in collaboration with The Organic Center showing that organic farming can help reduce nitrogen pollution on a global scale.

A freshwater ecologist at the Millbrook - based Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies co-authored a paper on global trends in synthetic chemical pollution.

Environmentalists were furious at Stachowksi for voting against a 2009 wetlands protection bill, two clean air acts and a global warming pollution control act).

The EPA says Global Companies LLC, which operates a major crude oil ship - loading terminal at the Port of Albany, has run afoul of federal air pollution standards and has been emitting more ozone - producing compounds than they say they are.

The new critique comes almost a week after it was revealed that the EPA had accused Global Companies, which operates a train terminal at the Port of Albany, of violating air pollution standards regarding emissions from the dozens of oil trains that come through there each week.

Elections sweeping Republicans into the House leadership set climate proposals on a path to nowhere in 2010 and 2011 as partisanship marginalized supporters of any federal bill aimed at cutting global warming pollution.

Less than one percent of the world's water is liquid fresh water, and scientific studies suggest that a majority of U.S. and global fresh water is now at risk because of increasing consumption, evaporation and pollution.

«Cleaner ships fuels help people who don't have an economic role in the pollution they are suffering, some in places that aren't engaged in trade at all, as well as communities located along major shipping lanes,» said Corbett, an expert on environmental policy and global shipping.

If at least 55 countries, collectively producing at least 55 percent of global climate pollution every year, file their instruments of ratification by Oct. 7, then the Paris agreement will take force for those countries before the next round of climate talks, scheduled for November.

But even if the carbon released during production were somehow captured and sequestered — a technology that remains unproven at any meaningful scale — some studies indicate that liquid coal would still release 4 to 8 percent more global warming pollution than regular gasoline.

«The amount and diversity of pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other industrial chemicals that humans are releasing into the environment are increasing at rates that match or exceed recent increases in CO2 emissions, nutrient pollution from nitrogen fertilizers, and other drivers of global change,» Bernhardt said.

«The same calculations can be included in stream network models, which would allow researchers to better quantify the impacts of nitrate pollution at local, continental and even global scales,» said co-author Morvarid Azizian, a postdoctoral scholar in civil & environmental engineering at UCI.

Despite a rise in clean, renewable energy supplies in certain countries, and a partial shift from coal to natural gas in others, global greenhouse gas pollution continues to rise — and at an increasing pace in the most recent years.

Without any action, the world is on track to achieve at least 4 degrees C warming of global average temperatures by 2100, as the world hits 450 parts - per - million of greenhouse gases in 2030 and goes on to put out enough greenhouse gas pollution to achieve as much as 1300 ppm by 2100.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

Reductions of excess nutrient input are possible, and addressing pollution both at global and local levels is important, noted Burkepile.

The study, led by researchers at Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), highlights the importance of maintaining domestic emission controls on motor vehicles, power plants and other industries at a time when pollution is increasingly global.

«The WRI commentary is correct,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra who is also executive director of the Global Carbon Project, which tracks greenhouse gas pollution.

The study is the first to give a global overview of all current plans to mine the seabed, in both national and international waters, and looks at the potential impacts including physical destruction of seabed habitats, creation of large underwater plumes of sediment and the effects of chemical, noise and light pollution arising from mining operations.

«He let the moment go by without making any change in his dogged refusal to put real limits on America's global warming pollution,» says David Doniger, climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a New York - based environmental group.

To simulate the interplay of global climate with regional pollution conditions, the scientists turned to two of the world's leading atmospheric models, both based at NCAR and developed through broad collaborations with the atmospheric science community.

Cities are at the forefront of dealing with the impacts of global warming, so CityLab posed the question: Are they are also the best places to begin combating the pollution that causes climate change?

«His opposition to capping and reducing our global warming pollution is the single biggest obstacle to making progress either here at home or with other countries.»

The 2012 Global Energy Assessment, for example, elucidated multiple pathways that could simultaneously achieve decarbonization at the same time as expanding energy access to the millions of people currently living without modern energy and electricity, and improving public health by reducing air pollution.

These pollution particles are also implicated in climate change issues at regional and global scales.

He studies global health impacts of air pollution at the University of British Columbia's School of Population and Public Health in Vancouver, Canada.

Finally, UNESCO's MGIEP will launch an SDG - inspired video game in which players help solve global problems such as displacement, disease, deforestation, drought and pollution at the community level.

Sounds crazy, doesn't it?Highlighted by Chrysler's Voyager III detachable van, this year's crop of concept vehicles at the North American International Auto Show was wilder than ever.Industry officials say that concerns about global warming, pollution, traffic congestion and the price of fuel are the major design influences behind many of the concept vehicles unveiled at the nation's most important auto show.

Air pollution needs to be addressed at a global platform, so that all the nations of the world get them involved in the pursuit of keeping environment clean and serene.

Global warming is widely viewed at the policy level as a pollution problem like acid rain, smog, or the ozone hole.

He picked a series of lobbyists and a vice-president at the core of his campaign that will try to prevent serious regulation of man - made global warming pollution if they are elected.

The folks over at the Porter School for Environmental Studies are organizing a one - day event at the Watec conference tomorrow in Tel Aviv, but with a focus on air pollution and the global «ZeroCarbonCity» campaign.

If environmental groups and their backers want to see concrete progress on limiting the risk that humans will propel dangerous global warming, they may need more than just additional money and better organization, but also a hard look at core strategies and a philosophy that has long cast climate change as primarily a conventional pollution problem, not a technology problem.

And we could even allow more sulphate aerosol into the atmosphere, as this has proven successful at global dimming — taking care about not to release «pollution» near centres of population where it could damage health.

The initiative is aimed at pressing Congress and the Obama administration to ensure that global climate - treaty talks don't weaken protections on who can profit from new technologies that provide abundant energy without abundant pollution.

Climate change, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, excess nutrient inputs, and pollution in its many forms are fundamentally altering the chemistry of the ocean, often on a global scale and, in some cases, at rates greatly exceeding those in the historical and recent geological record.

I don't know Seth, but I totally agree there's huge potential in electric vehicle retrofits, because the volume of new electric and plug - in hybrid cars is, at present, too small to meet the demand or to make a big dent in local air pollution and global warming emissions.

It is likely that at least some of this change, particularly over Europe, is due to decreases in pollution; most governments have done more to reduce aerosols released into the atmosphere that help global dimming instead of reducing CO2 emissions.

«We know that our planetâ $ ™ s future depends on a global commitment to permanently reduce greenhouse gas pollution, â $ President Obama said yesterday at the U.N. Summit on Climate Change in New York, one of several references to â $ œgreenhouse gas pollutionâ $ and â $ œcarbon pollutionâ $ sprinkled throughout his speech.

This announcement shows that China is committed at the highest - level to dealing with this challenge and that it will take clear steps to reduce its global warming pollution.

In 2014, international scientists collaborated with 5 Gyres to publish the first Global Estimate of Marine Plastic Pollution, and determined that 5.25 trillion particles of «plastic smog» surface pollution — weighing in at 269,000 tons — pollute our oceans worldwide.

WHO's third Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, which looked at the outdoor air in 3,000 cities, villages and towns across 103 countries shows that fast growing cities in Southeast Asia, Middle East and the Western Pacific felt the worst impact of air pollution with many of these cities having pollution levels between five to 10 times above the recommended levels.

«SoCalGas is proud to support Global Green in this effort to help California meet its air pollution and climate goals by taking methane from organic waste and using it to make renewable natural gas,» said Trisha Muse, community relations director at SoCalGas.

First is regulation that could strand assets in several ways: direct regulation on carbon led by authorities at the local, national, regional, or global level; indirect regulation through increased pollution controls, constraints on water usage, or policies targeting health concerns; and mandates on renewable energy adoption and efficiency standards.

The field, off the coast of Indonesia, would have been the single largest source of global warming pollution at the time.