The Stories That Matter To The Environment
British-based Camco International Ltd. may become the last public-listed carbon offset company in operation if Opcon AB succeeds in its takeover bid for Tricorona.
On Wednesday, Opcon AB presented an all-share deal to the Swedish clean energy project developer, offering to buy the firm for over one billion Swedish crowns ($137 million).
If the takeover for Tricorona [...]
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An EU official announced on Thursday that Catherine Ashton, the new foreign policy chief of the European Union, wants EU to work hand in hand with China regarding climate issues and to look for trade-offs with other policy sectors.
Ashton will give instructions to a summit composed of EU leaders on Thursday in relation to her [...]
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The coffee production in Kenya has been affected by climate change, with excessive droughts and erratic rainfall patterns, resulting to terrible disease control and crop management, a researcher stated Thursday.
For example, the intermittent rainfall during the 2007-2008 crop year caused the Coffee Berry Disease (CBD) in Kenya to cut its output by 23% as rain [...]
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Chemists at UCLA announces their successful creation of a synthetic “gene” that could be used to capture carbon dioxide emissions, one of the leading causes of increased ocean acidity, rising sea levels, and global warming.
The research is published in the 12 February issue of Science journal. “We created three-dimensional, synthetic DNA-like crystals”, stated UCLA chemistry [...]
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