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With the Olympic just 24 hours away, the IOC (international Olympic Committee has announced that Beijing’s air does not pose any health hazards to the athletes, officials and visitors.
Even though haze and overcast skies are still present, it does not represent that the air quality is actually poor as commented by a Beijing environmental official.
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The Greenpeace are at it again and this time, they are carrying a protest against the rampant deforestation in Indonesia.
During the protest,the Greenpeace activists donned masks and “armed” themselves with mock chainsaws. They positioned themselves outside the Forestry Ministry to urge the Indonesian government to stop deforestation.
Hm… the activists do remind me of the movie [...]

The Arctic Circle holds an estimated 90 billion barrels of recoverable oil, enough supply to meet current world demand for almost three years, the US Geological Survey forecast on Wednesday.
The forecast comes as Russia is competing with Canada, Denmark, Norway and the United States to grab a chunk of the huge energy resources in the [...]

With the coming of the Olympic Games, and the problem of air pollution not easing, China has launched traffic restrictions in a last minute ditch to ease the air pollution problem.
Vehicles with even and odd plates will hit the roads only on alternate days, which effectively means just half of the capital’s 3.29 million automobiles [...]

Welcome back. For part 2 of this article, I will be talking about how carbon dioxide is stored. After being captured, the carbon dioxide can be either stored undergound ( geological sequestration ) or in the ocean ( ocean sequestration ).

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With the effects of climate change and ocean acidification caused by greenhouse gases worsening, government bodies worldwide are pressed to find a way to curb with carbon dioxide emissions. But with fossil fuel still proving to be the dominant source of fuel and with the recent G8 agreement to target a 50% reduction in carbon [...]

Remember the article where a 16 year old Canadian teenager found out a way to disintegrate plastic bags in 3 months? Well this time round, two students from Indonesia, Vici Riyani and Adrienne Trinovia Sulistyo, have found a waste treatment solution for styrofoam.

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