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Commercial Space Travel: Not All That Green, Study Says
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Oct. 25) -- Last week, a science fiction vision of the future seemed to get one step closer when Virgin Group's Sir Richard Branson unveiled a completed runway at the new Virgin Galactic Spaceport in the New Mexico desert. But some scientists are now worrying that the environmental impact of private spacecraft might make the future less "The Fifth Element" and more "Mad Max." A recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters warns that the effects of these particular spacecraft on climate change will be even worse than the baseline one might assume from blasting tourists into space. ...
Environmental Wake-Up Call Looming in Pakistan
By Adnan R. Khan - AOL News(April 22) -- For the past month, Ismail Siddiqui has watched disaster hanging over him. "It's one thing to see everything you own destroyed in an earthquake," the 45-year-old father of four tells AOL News. "But to wake up every morning not knowing whether today will be the end. ... It's driving me crazy." What Siddiqui is watching is an artificial dam created by a massive landslide in Pakistan's northern Hunza Valley in January. His house is situated just downstream from the dam, along the banks of the Hunza River. Water has been collecting behind the massive pile of rock debris for ...
High-Speed Rail: Great for Europe, but Less So for the U.S.?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyAs climate change negotiations in Copenhagen stumble and threaten to dissolve, at least one aspect of "green" living looks set to rev up: high-speed rail. But even as enthusiasm for it spreads from Antwerp to Tallahassee, critics warn that it may not be all it's cracked up to be. If you look at what's going on in Europe this week, it seems pretty obvious that high-speed rail is the new, new thing. On Monday, four different countries ushered in modifications to their high-speed services, slashing travel times between inter-continental routes like Paris and Amsterdam and Brussels and Cologne. ...
Opinion: World Talks, US Delivers on Global Warming
By John Merline - AOL News(Dec. 11) -- At the Copenhagen global warming conference this week, Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson sought to reassure world leaders that the United States is "fighting to make up for lost time" on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Her plea is understandable. The U.S. constantly gets an earful on this issue from other world big shots. "We need stronger U.S. action on climate change," is how Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg put it earlier this year. John Ashton, the British special representative for climate change, complained about an "ambition gap" between the U.S. and ...
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