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Wind power can prevent climate change: studyBelgium, Brussels - Wind power could produce 12 per cent of the world's energy needs and prevent 10 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions within 12 years, according to a report. |
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Architects’ Home and Office is Less Than Eight Feet WideAntwerp, Belgium - So often the space between buildings is just wasted, a source of heat loss and little else. |
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Airline flies slower to cut costsBrussels, Belgium - Belgium's Brussels Airlines has announced it is slowing speeds and reducing weight on some of its aircraft in order to reduce fuel costs. |
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Portugal finds a power niche in the sunAmareleja, Portugal - Broad fields of giant solar panels as big as houses tilt toward the sun in this torrid patch of the Iberian peninsula. |
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Volvo takes success with carbon-dioxide-neutral trucks to Washington, DCWashington, D.C., USA - After the Volvo Group’s notable showcasing of carbon-dioxide-neutral trucks in Stockholm and Brussels last year, it is now Washington, DC’s turn. |
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EU wants partial ban of toxic paint removers
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The sale and use of paint removers containing dichloromethane, a chemical with toxic vapor, would be restricted under a proposal made by European Union regulators on Thursday.
Some experts have expressed concern that a number of accidents and deaths in the EU in recent years were linked to use of the substance, the European Commission said.
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Hydrogen-Burning Hypersonic Airplane: Going Green at Mach-5Abingdon, England, UK - The proposed future of air travel is quite a marvel. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Carbon windfall to go to clean energy: officialMilan, Italy - The European Commission wants to back alternative energy like wind and solar with the money it raises from sales of carbon emissions permits, which could reach billions of euros, a senior EC official said on Wednesday. |
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Egypt’s Oldest Known Art Identified, Is 15,000 Years OldQurta, Egypt - Rock face drawings and etchings recently rediscovered in southern Egypt are similar in age and style to the iconic Stone Age cave paintings in Lascaux, France, and Altamira, Spain, archaeologists say. |
news from Europe
- BMW Will Have All-Electric Mini Coopers for Lease by March
- Renowned Swedish retailer donates proceeds from toy sales to UNICEF projects
- Archaeologists Unearth Gold Coins in Jerusalem
- London’s red buses to go green in 2011
- Meet the Magical White Christmas Robin
- Italy’s poor to eat contraband caviar on Christmas
- 4,000-year-old Amber Necklace Has Been Unearthed In England
- Malaria vaccine trials show promise
- Top UN official upbeat as many Member States commit to emergency relief fund
- Climate bill ‘could lead world’
