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27/11/2017

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - TransCanada Corp will restart its Keystone crude oil pipeline at reduced pressure on Tuesday after getting approval from U.S. regulators, the company said on Monday.

27/11/2017

HCN.org news in brief.[...][Published in GreenNews - Read the original article]

27/11/2017

Indonesia has ordered some one hundred thousand people to evacuate after Mount Agung erupted, spewing ash thousands of meters into the air. Authorities have raised the alert level of the volcano to the highest possible.[...][Published in GreenNews - Read

27/11/2017

`Greenpeace slammed Indonesia's palm oil industry Monday for failing to live up to a pledge to halt deforestation, as the lucrative sector faces possible restrictions in Europe over environmental concerns.[...][Published in GreenNews - Read

27/11/2017

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Soil plays a critical role in global carbon cycling, in part because soil organic matter stores three times more carbon than the atmosphere. Now biogeochemist Marco Keiluweit at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues elsewhere for the first…

27/11/2017

WEST JAVA, Indonesia — Once we leave the village of Cipaganti in West Java, we turn our headlamps on, casting beams into the rapidly descending darkness. We take a path up a mountain slope past fields of tea, coffee and chayote squash. Large trees, where the forest once stood, border the fields.…

27/11/2017

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Cold lava flows, also known as lahar, are expected to increase amid an eruption of Mount Agung on Indonesia's tourist resort island of Bali, a disaster agency said on Monday, after sounding its highest-level warning over the volanco's activity.

27/11/2017

DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia raised its alert level for Bali's Mount Agung volcano to the highest stage four on Monday and told residents to immediately evacuate areas near the summit, warning of the "imminent" risk of a larger eruption.

27/11/2017

A week ago, the Russian meteorological service, Roshydromet, reacted to a month-long standing request for information from Greenpeace. It triggered extraordinary interest among journalists world-wide in a rather unknown bit of nuclear physics: the radioactive substance

27/11/2017

Scientists are still trying to determine what happened to the levels of mercury in Utah's Great Salt Lake, which have dipped by almost 90 percent.[...][Published in GreenNews - Read the original[...]

26/11/2017

By Xixi Chen Happy Cyber Monday everyone. For those of us who didn’t break the bank on Black Friday, we’re filling up our online shopping carts with Cyber Monday sales – seeing if we can break new records of consumerism. I know I am. Last year’s Cyber[...]

26/11/2017

A volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali sent plumes of grey smoke and steam thousands of metres into the air Sunday for the third day in a week, triggering flight disruptions and leaving thousands of tourists stranded, officials said Sunday....[...][Published in GreenNews - Read

26/11/2017

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A state-owned Nepali power company will develop the Himalayan country's biggest hydroelectric plant after the government scrapped a deal with a Chinese company, a government official said on Sunday.

26/11/2017

DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian and regional authorities heightened flight warnings around Bali's Mount Agung on Sunday as the volcano's eruptions sent a plume of volcanic ash and steam more than 6,000 meters into the skies above the popular holiday island.

26/11/2017

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster spewed radioactive clouds into the sky and sent shockwaves across Europe, Belarus is building a nuclear reactor on the doorstep of the EU despite fears in neighbouring Lithuania.[...][Published in GreenNews - Read

26/11/2017

In a remote region of Antarctica known as Pine Island Bay, the Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers sprawl across a plain over 150-miles-long, widening as they go inland to a reserve of ice two-miles-thick, about the size of Texas. They are melting fast.[...][Published in GreenNews - Read

25/11/2017

It’s called an airplane -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

25/11/2017

With 70 percent of the world's population forecast to be living in urbanized areas by 2050 and the added fact that 90 percent of the world's largest cities are located along coastlines, we are forced to reimagine our future.[...][Published in GreenNews - Read

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