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Greenhouse Gas Calculator Connects Farming Practices With Carbon CreditsMadison WI (SPX) Aug 19, 2010 Greenhouse gas markets, where invisible gases are traded, must seem like black boxes to most people. Farmers can make money on these markets, such as the Chicago Climate Exchange, by installing methane capture technologies in animal-based systems, no-till farming, establishing grasslands, and planting trees. Farmers, students, extension educators, offset aggregators, and other stakeholders need to understand how to change farming practices to maximize their potential economic returns in these new ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 18, 2010More than 60 people went missing after torrents of mud slammed into homes in southwest China Wednesday, blocking roads in the nation's latest disaster as it battles its worst flooding in a decade. Power lines and telecoms have been cut to Puladi township in Yunnan province, where the mudslides struck in the early hours of Wednesday as people were sleeping, a provincial government official sa ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 18, 2010Japanese trading giant Itochu Corp. will start selling water-processing equipment in China to help combat the country's serious problems with water pollution, a company spokesman said Wednesday. ITC Green and Water Corp., a water-processing unit of the Tokyo-based trading house, will later this year market a new water-treatment system developed by Japanese contractor Matsue Doken, the spokes ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2010Research is continually emerging on the impacts of invasive species, pollution and environmental disasters on ecosystems and communities. Ecological scientists will discuss widespread environmental changes-from the recent discovery of genetically modified plants in the wild to the implications of mercury found in bottlenose dolphin skin, and even exploring society's reactive mode toward environm ... more |
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New landslides in China leave 38 missingBeijing (AFP) Aug 14, 2010 Heavy rains triggered landslides Saturday that left at least 38 missing in southwest China, state media said, adding misery to a nation already battling with huge floods and a massive mudslide that has claimed over 1,200 lives. Landslides destroyed hospital buildings in Wenchuan county, the epicentre of an earthquake in May 2008 that left nearly 87,000 dead or missing, the official Xinhua news agency said. No deaths were immediately reported in the landslides, but 38 people were missing and 10,0 ... read more |
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