Maps showing the world's largest carbon producers flag such unlikely suspects as Brazil and Indonesia. What's going on here? The answer is deforestation, which aggravates the impact of global warming in a number of surprising ways.
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Brazil has unveiled its plan to encourage farmers in the Amazon region to develop sustainable sources of income and turn their backs on the illegal logging that is ravaging the rainforest.
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Due to the processes of purification and evaporation, it takes about three gallons of water to produce a single gallon that's bottled and sent to market.
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With feed, energy, and water resources dwindling, critics say the farm animal industry's status quo is unsustainable.
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This week, the Air Force will call for the world's top scientists to collaborate in a multibillion-dollar effort to develop greener fuels and tackle global warming.
Hundreds of Environmental Protection Agency scientists say they have been pressured by superiors to skew their findings, according to a survey released Wednesday by an advocacy group.
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This month, the Earth Protection Agency is on a mission in Chicago to collect at least a million pounds of e-waste and a million pills to keep contaminants out of the Great Lakes.
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The $30 billion project could meet 4% of UK's electricity needs, but eco-groups aren't going with the flow.
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Recent findings suggest the EPA’s fall from its perch as environmental protector has been due not to any change in legislation or loophole, but to direct and intentional interference by private influence.
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The Rockefeller family wants ExxonMobil to wake up to the realties of climate change and carbon controls and end its short-term fossil fuel focus.
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Food prices are soaring, but don't blame biofuels or a lack of fuel, according to presenters at the Ecocity World Summit.
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While building green cities is important, individuals who choose to go vegetarian are making a far greater contribution, according to India's Ambika Shukla.
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As the web becomes a blur of sources, companies may find it easier to fake an earthy image.
