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Milkin' It
More use of growth hormones would boost sustainability of dairy industry, says study |
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01 Jul 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 2:00 PM on 01 Jul 2008 Shooting up cows with artificial growth hormones increases the sustainability of the dairy industry, claims a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Giving rbST to 1 million cows would enable the same amount of milk to be produced using 157,000 fewer cows," says the study, thus easing the impact that giant dairy-cow operatio ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, air pollution, food, health, industrial ag, news, scientific research, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Everybody cut soot loose
New study: Ordinary soot second biggest driver of climate change |
David Roberts |
24 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| After carbon dioxide, the second largest contributor to global warming is ordinary soot, according to new research published Sunday in Nature Geoscience. So-called "black carbon" has up to 60 percent the warming effects of the more oft-noted culprit CO2. The implication is fairly radical: Quickly reducing soot could have substantial short-term effects on the rate of climate change. Whereas CO2 molecules stay in that atmosphere for years, soot particles st ... |
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| Topics: climate change mitigation, health, air pollution, scientific research (all these topics) |
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Now Where Did We Put That Respirator?
For every 1 degree Celsius globe warms, some 21,000 people could die, says study |
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04 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:06 PM on 04 Jan 2008 For every 1 degree Celsius of anthropogenic global warming, some 21,000 people worldwide could die, including more than 1,000 in the U.S., says a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. According to computer modeling by researcher Mark Jacobson, increased air pollution due to rising carbon-dioxide levels will lead to more fatalities. "Th ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, climate, climate change impacts, health, news, scientific research (all these topics) |
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Not-so-smooth sailing
New study finds that pollution from ships kills 60,000 a year |
Kit Stolz |
09 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| It's surprising how much pollution ships emit: over 2,000 tons of diesel soot a year in southern California, for example, about 10 percent of the total in the region. Worse, a new study by researchers at the University of Delaware and Rochester Institute of Technology finds that the burning of cheap, dirty, sulfurous "residual oil" on ships kills an estimated 60,000 people around the world. "Premature mortality" is the phrase used in the study. A ... |
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| Topics: scientific research, health, air pollution (all these topics) |
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