Thursday, August 13, 2015

Search returns for water and environment


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Add another black mark to Canada’s environmental image around the world: The country now leads the planet in the degradation of untouched forests, according to a study from Forest Watch. Some 8 per cent of the world’s virgin forests we...
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The Guardian
The scheme is the Nova Scotia community feed-in tariff (Comfit), which was designed to encourage community-based, local renewableenergy projects by guaranteeing a rate per kilowatt-hour for the energy the project fed into the province's electrical grid.
BBC News
Investment in community-based renewableenergy schemes could be at risk because of uncertainty over the returns, the natural resources minister has claimed. Carl Sargeant was visiting the £1.25m Anafon hydro-electric project being built at ...
The Local.de
The company, like many of its rivals, has suffered from a drop in profit margins from conventional electricity generation due to a boom in renewables as part of Germany's "energy transformation" as it phases out nuclear power and seeks to reduce fossil ...
Here are a couple of suggested talking points for new goals if you'd like to comment: Achieve greater energy efficiency and develop renewable energy sources that are clean, appropriately located and competitively priced. If we can meet these two goals ...
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HUMAN HABITAT

NDTV
"Studies undertaken in different parts of Himalayan Environment and Development have indicated increasing threats to Himalayan Ecology due to fragility of Himalayan Ecosystem and various anthropogenic activities," Environment Minister Prakash ...
LA Daily News
“We are committed to a solution to the pond,” Marty Adams, senior assistant manager for water for the DWP, told a standing-room-only crowd of about 150 residents at St. John Eudes Church in Chatsworth about the future of the ecologypond. “We believe ...
CBC.ca
It didn't work so well for the three little pigs, but hay is showing itself to be more resilient than rock in protecting eroding shorelines in some Nova Scotia areas. In May, the EcologyAction Centre placed about 100 hay bales in front of St. Mary's ...
Vatican Radio
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has decided to follow the example of the Orthodox Church and set up a World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation which will be celebrated on September 1st each year. Ruth Jarman is a leading member of Operation Noah, ...
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WATER POWER

The Denver Post
The EPA on Monday expanded its response to the Animas River mining disaster, delivering bottled water in Colorado, New Mexico and Navajo Country and testing for contaminants as far as Lake Powell. The acidic heavy metals that flooded into Cement ...
Shape Magazine
"The water looks kind of iridescent, pearlescent. It has these tiny, invisible droplets of fat that your body really, really likes," he said, adding that the nanoparticles of fat bring the water into the cells more effectively. "Drink a glass of water ...
TIME
A young French boy's life was spared after his parents offered him more of the little waterthey had while hiking on perilous trail in New Mexico. His parents both died and he has since been reunited with his grandmother. The tourists had traveled to ...
Sun Sentinel
A routine test detected E. coli bacteria inwater prior to treatment. After the result was confirmed Saturday, boil-water notices were issued for Fort Lauderdale, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Oakland Park, Port Everglades, Sea Ranch Lakes, Wilton Manors and ...

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