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Experts uncover alarming side effects of shutting down industrial coal plants: 'We need to put … efforts in place soon'

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Experts uncover alarming side effects of shutting down industrial coal plants: 'We need to put … efforts in place soon'

 

As states around the U.S. expand their clean-energy capacity, experts discovered an alarming relationship between threatened manatees in Florida and coal-fueled power plants. 

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Great Salt Lake a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions

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Great Salt Lake a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions

 

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Science Daily reports, "Great Salt Lake a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Desiccating salt lakes identified as underappreciated sources contributing to climate change."

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Food from urban agriculture has carbon footprint 6 times larger than conventional produce...

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Food from urban agriculture has carbon footprint 6 times larger than conventional produce...

 

Science Daily reports, "A new University of Michigan-led international study finds that fruits and vegetables grown in urban farms and gardens have a carbon footprint that is, on average, six times greater than conventionally grown produce."

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Increase in rice farming in sub-Saharan Africa found to be producing rising amounts of methane

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Increase in rice farming in sub-Saharan Africa found to be producing rising amounts of methane

 

Phys.org reports, "A team of engineers and atmospheric scientists at Harvard University, working with a colleague from the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has calculated the increased amount of methane being expelled into the atmosphere due to increases in rice farming in parts of Africa.

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Now scientists say BREATHING is bad for the environment.

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Now scientists say BREATHING is bad for the environment.

 

"...a new study claims the gases in air exhaled from human lungs is fueling global warming."

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