Jetliners Create Carbon Crunch
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By Chris Woodyard  Booming demand for new jetliners is driving up the cost of carbon fiber, a high-tech material used in products ranging from cars to hockey sticks.
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A higher tax on domestic flights and a moratorium on airport expansions are among some of the key proposals a Conservative policy group will announce Thursday as part of the political party&#39;s commitment to fighting climate change.
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PARIS -- It's a trend that counts Leonardo DiCaprio, London cabs and Al Gore among its followers: Making life &quot;carbon neutral&quot; through tree-planting and other environmentally friendly efforts to curb emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide.
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The global airline industry is forecast to have made net losses of $4.8bn this year, as the rise in the oil price has overwhelmed efforts by carriers to cut costs.
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Engineers at NASA, Boeing, are working to realize the longtime dream of a flying car--but admit we're still decades from a Jetson-like world.
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Just days after the Nobel prize was awarded for global warming work, an alarming new study finds that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing faster than expected.
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Soaring fuel prices and slowing economic growth are likely to wipe out much of the airline industryâs profits next year, despite steady increases in global demand for air travel.
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By Beth J. Harpaz Associated Press  NEW YORK -- Visiting an eco-lodge in a rainforest somewhere may sound appealing. But when you consider that carbon dioxide emissions from airplanes are a major contributor to global warming, you might do more for the environment by staying home.
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Business & money: The way planes take-off, fly and land in Britain will be overhauled in bid to cut aviation emissions by 10%
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Slipping the surly bonds of the oil market The world's largest passenger airliner, the Airbus A380, has successfully made a test flight using synthetic jet fuel partly made from natural gas. The test is the latest step in moves by airliner builders and operators to diversify the sources of their fuel supplies.â¦
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Â· Boeing 787 becomes fastest selling airliner in historyÂ· Design enables cut in fuel consumption of 20%
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In a world headed toward billion-car gridlock, here's one vision of a green global transportation system.
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Global emissions of carbon dioxide from shipping are twice the level of aviation, new maritime research says.
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TONY EASTLEY: Scientists have confirmed there has been a dramatic and unexpected increase in carbon dioxide levels. It&#39;s raised fears that the ability of the earth&#39;s oceans and plants to absorb carbon dioxide may be declining.
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The rate at which humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere has more than doubled since the 1990s, according to Australian research, the latest report warning about the high rate of emissions accumulating in the atmosphere.
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The case for using a carbon tax to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
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The oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide that has built up in the air, turning water more acidic and creating potentially catastrophic conditions for marine life.