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Environnement: Un Slovène se lance dans un tour du monde en avion écolo -
Environnement Un biologiste slovène se lance dans un tour du monde en avion ultra-léger de 290 kg.
GENEVA (BNO NEWS) -- The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Monday warned in a new report that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new high in 2010, exceeding worst case scenarios set in 2001. Between 1990 and 2010, the WMO recorded a 29 percent increase in radiative forcing - the warming effect on our climate system - from greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide accounted for 80 percent of this increase, according to the WMO's Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.
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Nazi Bunker to Become Europe's Largest Solar Power Plant
© Jerry James Stone via iPhone A former Nazi bunker located in the Wilhelmsburg district of Hamburg, Germany is about to get a full-scale makeover.
Flooding in Bangkok this month. The CIA has been urged to be less secretive about climate change following an epic year of natural weather disasters. Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images
CIA urged to be more open about climate change | World news
Daily Show/Video screen capture Bill Clinton has become one of the most outspoken proponents for the clean energy economy in recent years, and for good reason. The renewable energy sector, as you know, is one of the few to have added jobs even throughout the recession, and it promises to be one of the primary engines of growth in coming years as well.
If US Followed Germany's Lead on Solar, We'd Create 2.5 MIllion Jobs: Bill Clinton on the Daily Show (Video)
Trop tard pour limiter le réchauffement à 2°C, d’après ‘Nature’
Crise de l'euro + Fukushima : avez-vous remarqué comme on n'a jamais aussi peu parlé du climat dans les médias ?
Google Map Reveals Massive Geothermal Potential Nationwide, "Effectively an Unlimited Supply" Says Chu
You’re looking at a whole lot of heat. Southern Methodist University’s Geothermal Laboratory recently released a map that proves once again how much potential energy is locked beneath America.
While white roofs, like the one on this Las Vegas Walmart store, help reduce energy use indoors, the effect the white has on global warming is not as obvious. CC BY: Walmart
Can white roofs really reduce global warming
Bhoutan: au royaume du bonheur, on s'inquiète du réchauffement climatique
Le petit royaume bouddhiste himalayen du Bhoutan s'alarme de l'impact du changement climatique dans les montagnes, craignant qu'il ruine à jamais ses ambitions pour devenir un pays en pointe en matière d'énergie hydraulique.
Flash Eco : La Grèce produirait de l'énergie solaire
Criblée de dettes mais pourvue d'un fort ensoleillement, la Grèce envisage d'installer sur une superficie de 20.000 hectares des parcs solaires dans le but d'exporter de l'énergie renouvelable vers l'Allemagne, rapporte samedi le quotidien Ta Nea. Selon le journal, qui a le plus grand tirage de la presse grecque, le projet, doté d'un budget initial de 20 milliards d'euros, pourrait créer 60.000 emplois à un moment où le pays se débat dans une forte récession et connaît un très haut taux de chômage.(Saving...) Brazil Builds $127 Billion "Offshore City" to Harvest Oil in the Deep Sea
Photo credit: Strocchi via Flickr/CC BY Want to get a feel for how crazy the post-peak oil fossil fuels industry is getting?Un an après, l'île de glace Petermann dérive toujours
Par Jean-Baptiste Feldmann, Futura-Sciences L'immense iceberg qui s'était séparé du Groenland en août 2010 continue son chemin dans la mer du Labrador, sous le regard des satellites et des astronautes de l' ISS .Want more of those delicious and crispy fries? Thanks to DC Biofuels , the tasty french fry in Washington DC may linger on a little longer – fueling the vehicle fleets in the district as the capital area’s very own biodiesel facility plans to open next year!
French Fry Grease to Reappear as Biodiesel in DC Trucks | Ecopreneurist
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