The Problem of Scale in Environmental Solutions
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With several panels dedicated to biofuels at the AAAS annual meeting, the sustainability of growing a large percentage of our transportation fuel is emerging as a major theme of the conference. Alexis Madrigal reports from Boston.
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Letter Can collective database licensing cure this tragedy of the commons?
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By Innes, Judith E; Connick, Sarah; Booher, David  In 1994 an unusual, if not unique, collaborative effort emerged to manage the highly contested and interconnected system of waters, levees, and habitat in the San Francisco Bay Estuary and Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta.
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Whatâs greener than HFCs for refrigeration? Carbon dioxide. Thus the public relations problem.
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By Schiff, Roy Benoit, Gaboury  ABSTRACT: The spatial scale and location of land whose development has the strongest influence on aquatic ecosystems must be known to support land use decisions that protect water resources in urbanizing watersheds.
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Big Blue is going green with an initiative that focuses on environmental technologies and services.
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Researchers are goading tiny organisms like bacteria and algae into producing fuels like hydrogen and methane. The process is not useful yet, but the technology could be a solution to the energy problem. By Amit Asaravala.
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Science & environment: The big high-street chains are falling over  themselves to 'go green'. But will any of it make  any difference? Mark Lynas is far from convinced.
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Economic development at the expense of the environment is like grabbing a good seat in the cinema of a sinking luxury liner.  Even worse, the more rapid the development, the more damage it does to the environment.  We are heavily indebted to environment.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ At the Golden Gate, the sea is rising.  In the Sierra Nevada, the snowpack is shrinking.  These developments, attributable to a warming climate, threaten one of California's most indispensable resources: water.
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Can cruise ships and nature coexist? An experiment gets under way in Cozumel to test the idea.
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But problems arise when it comes time to pin down those responsible for climate change.
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Global biodiversity is shrinking at an unprecedented rate and the prognosis given by one of the world&#39;s leading conservation bodies, at the opening of a major environment conference here, is alarming.
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By Andrews, Richard N L  In 2005, the United Nations-commissioned Millennium Ecosystem Assessment reported that over the past 50 years, rapid and extensive change in human ecosystems has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
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Within the Global Monitoring for Environment an
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An unlikely meeting of minds on an issue of global concern.
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MARK COLVIN: The scientific consensus seems to be growing that global warming is not just coming, it&#39;s upon us. An international climate change taskforce is meeting in Sydney this week to discuss ways of avoiding