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Environment Management Newsletter July 08, 2010 |
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China`s nitrogen emissions could worsen pollution
China"s failure to control nitrogen emissions could mar its success in reducing environmental levels of sulphur dioxide (SO2), a new study finds. Both nitrogen and sulphur emissions are major contributors to soil acidity and environmental pollution. Although China is on target to meet its goal of reducing sulphur dioxide emissions by 10 per cent between 2005 and 2010 — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced in March this year that SO2 emissions have been reduced by 8.95 per cent in the last three years — researchers report that its nitrogen emissions ... |
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Carbon sequestration: boon or burden
Plans to sequester carbon are gaining support as a way to avoid global warming. The European Union plans to invest billions of Euros within the next ten years to develop carbon capture and storage whereby CO2 will be extracted at power plants and other combustion sites and stored underground. But how effective is this procedure and what are the long-term consequences of leakage for the oceans and climate? A Niels Bohr Institute researcher has now cast light upon these issues. This research has just been published in the scientific journal, Nature Geoscience. Large scale ... |
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