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BBC News
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Carbon nanotubes, the poster child of the burgeoning nanotechnology industry, could trigger diseases similar to those caused by asbestos, a study suggests.
Specific lengths of the tiny fibres were found to cause "asbestos-like" inflammation and lesions..
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BBC News
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Scientists have found new evidence that the Earth's natural feedback mechanism regulated carbon dioxide levels for hundreds of thousands of years.
But they say humans are now emitting CO2 so fast that the planet's natural balancing mechanism cannot kee..
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BBC News
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The "darkest ever" substance known to science has been made in a US laboratory.
The material was created from carbon nanotubes - sheets of carbon just one atom thick rolled up into cylinders.
Researchers say it is the closest thing yet to the ideal..
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BBC News
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EU ministers have agreed to impose carbon emissions quotas on airlines in an attempt to fight climate change.
The Environment Commissioner, Stavros Dimas, said a strong signal had to be sent, although MEPs had wanted carriers to be included in the EU e..
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The Register
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The Southern Ocean, one of the planet's biggest carbon sinks, is almost totally saturated, according to research published in the journal Science.
Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) joined forces with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) a..
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BBC News
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The UK's carbon emissions rose by 1.25% last year, according to provisional government data, but Britain remains on course to meet its Kyoto Protocol goal.
The main reason was a move from gas to coal for electricity generation.
Emissions of all gree..
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NPR
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Scientists are trying to figure out how to get carbon dioxide — the greenhouse gas that's warming the planet — out of the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants before it gets into the atmosphere.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's la..
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The Register
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Bad news for buyers of ecological Christmas presents and seekers of environmental quick fixes: offsetting carbon emissions by planting extra trees might not work as well as we had all hoped. It always seemed too easy, didn't it?..
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BBC News
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The government should go ahead with a system of personal "carbon credits" to meet emissions targets, MPs have said.
The Environmental Audit Committee said the scheme would be more effective than taxes for cutting carbon emissions.
Under the scheme p..
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BBC News
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The case for nuclear power as a low carbon energy source to replace fossil fuels has been challenged in a new report by Australian academics.
It suggests greenhouse emissions from the mining of uranium - on which nuclear power relies - are on the rise...
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BBC News
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Supermaket chain Tesco has announced that a range of its own-brand products will carry labels showing the size of the goods' carbon footprints.
Tesco said it would label 20 items, including light bulbs and potatoes, during a two-year trial of the schem..
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BBC News
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Carbon dioxide emissions from Europe's heavy industry sectors rose by 1.1% in 2007, say carbon market analysts.
The estimate is based on initial data from the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which includes more than 10,000 large industrial plants...
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BBC News
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UK home-owners are not prepared to make the changes needed to live in "zero carbon" homes, according to a report.
People felt the eco-friendly buildings would require extra maintenance and that they would have to cut back on certain appliances, it adde..
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MSNBC
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While natural cycles remove roughly half of human-emitted carbon dioxide from the atmosphere within a hundred years, a significant portion persists for thousands of years. Some of this carbon triggers deep-sea warming, which keeps raising the global avera..
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BBC News
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The UK's carbon emissions fell by just 0.1% last year, and the government has admitted it must do more to tackle climate change.
The figures would have been worse if the UK's share of pollution from global flights and shipping had been included.
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BBC News
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The president of the European Commmission has threatened to impose carbon tariffs on imports unless the US agrees to a global climate change deal.
Jose Manuel Barroso wants to protect energy-intensive sectors such as aluminium, steel and cement.
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BBC News
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Trade unions and business leaders say EU plans to cut carbon emissions could harm European jobs and industry.
The European Trade Union Confederation fears up to 50,000 steelworkers' jobs could go if their industry moves to areas with lower costs for po..
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BBC News
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A new idea could explain how the climate of early Mars became warm enough to support oceans.
Scientists believe sulphur dioxide released from ancient volcanoes created a balance similar to Earth's carbon cycle, which controlled the climate.
The noti..
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BBC News
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Gordon Brown is due to give his first major speech on the environment, raising the prospect of tougher domestic targets on carbon emissions.
He will say action on climate change is urgent, but that new green industries could create thousands of jobs...
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BBC News
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A study of the world's power stations has shown the extent to which developed countries produce more carbon dioxide per head than emerging economies.
Australians were found to be the world's worst polluters per capita, producing five times as much CO2..
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