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Explore Impact of climate change with Google Earth

Google has now launched a new tool allowing you to explore the potential impacts of climate change on our planet Earth with Google Earth. With this new feature you can …

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Climate Change & Temperature

To understand how mankind can counter global warming, we must understand what brought it about. There are several holes in the ozone layer, caused by gases emitted from the Earth’s atmosphere and rising into the atmosphere. These gases have been caused by the use of certain noxious chemicals, some of which were used in agricultural. One of them in particular …

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the Green House Effect

The process know as the greenhouse effect earns its description from a comparison between the temperature of air inside a greenhouse compared to the air outside. Known to many as global warming, its is one of the most frightening man made phenomena of the 21st century. At the end of 2006, scientists confirm that the average temperature of the planet has …

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Why Worry about Global Warming

It is very important to consider global warming as one of the most important problems of the world and we should take precautionary steps to control global warming.

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Hybrid Cars

A Hybrid car is an automobile that uses a combination of at least two unlike fuel sources for its impulsion. Even though many combinations can be possible, normally when people are discussing about hybrid cars, they are referring to cars with the combination of either an electric motor, or a gasoline engine, or a battery that influences the electric motor and stores energy for future use.

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The Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming

The Kyoto Protocol (named after the place where the meeting took place in Japan); a global agreement about Climate Change was set up by the United Nations in 1997. This initiative was created to help reduce harmful polluting emissions and global warming. It contains goals for emission reductions that is legally binding for all the countries involved.

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BioFuels as Alternative Sources of Energy

The field of Alternative and renewable sources of energy is full with diverse sources and resources, all of which are replete with manifold promise and potential. One of these is the source of Biofuels,which are produced by converting organic matter into fuel instead of discarding them simply as waste matter. This includes the use of [...]

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What is Global Warming

The term Global warming refers to the gradual rise in the earth’s temperature. Global warming has been an environmental issue that has plagued the entire globe for a few years now and researchers have said that the global warming will cause a complete change on the planet, with the same catastrophic effects as the ice age. Small effects can be seen already in the North and South Poles, where …

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Alternative Power

Millions of dollars have been spent for development of alternative power and still in developing new means of vehicle impulsion, that too with good reason. The automobile industry is underneath an increasing pressure to cut down pollution by developing eco-friendly cars. …

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Environment Resources

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