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Meanwhile, the World Bank and the European Investment Bank have stopped lending to high-emission coal plants.
California’s latest building and appliance standards are expected to avoid the need for five large power plants in the next 10 years.
Energy-hungry China builds the equivalent of two to four 500-megawatt power plants every week.
It causes lung disease among miners and the public living near coal-fired power plants.
They are often very productive by hectare, since they maximize the use of the soil, and achieve the best complementary use of plants and animals.
The evolution of European attitudes toward genetically modified foods and plants reflects just such a dual concern with health and identity.
Americans, including farmers, are more accustomed to paying for innovative technologies and products--a disposition reflected in a recent US Supreme Court decision that extended the scope of patents on plants.
Matters were exacerbated by firms’ postponement until a recession of hard choices about closing unviable plants and shedding workers.
Plants absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, thereby providing the air we breathe and helping to regulate the climate.
Kew’s leading work in understanding and conserving plants around the world is hence a key pillar in the fight against biodiversity loss.
Kew’s recent work with the International Union for Conservation of Nature, London’s Natural History Museum, and the Zoological Society of London to create the Sample Red List Index (SRLI) for plants has revealed for the first time that one in five of the world’s plant species is threatened with extinction.
The fate of an unknown number of endangered species of plants and animals also hangs in the balance.
The profitable parts, such as the TGV, will easily find buyers; the unprofitable plants should be closed.
Rather, it resembles a rhizome – an underground stem that sends out roots and shoots that develop into new plants.
Because bridges, power plants, and ports are complicated undertakings that often require extensive feasibility studies, environmental reviews, and regulatory approvals, G20 countries are also trying to boost the number of potential projects.
Legal systems differ across countries, but that does not mean that contracts to build similar power plants cannot be more alike.
One of them calculates that the costs would be prohibitive across their hundreds of plants.
The Swedish home-furniture giant Ikea’s recent announcement that it will open two new plants in northwest Italy suggests that Scandinavians are taking note of Monti’s Nordic tastes.
In addition to direct help for small farms, donors should provide more help for the research and development needed to identify new high-yielding seed varieties, especially to breed plants that can withstand temporary flooding, excess nitrogen, salty soils, crop pests, and other challenges to sustainable food production.
He attributes, debatably, the entire problem to higher carbon emissions from cars, power plants, etc.Gore’s film would give the Europeans, always in danger of being marginalized at these meetings, the chance to boast about how they, unlike the Americans and Russians, are already doing their part by heavily taxing gas consumption.
In the Industrial Age, plants became ever larger and less easy to move.
Clearly, plants located near tsunami-prone areas need to be reconsidered, and some countries have power plants in disturbingly close proximity to seismic faults – and to large cities.
Germany doesn’t have a low-carbon alternative if it shutters its nuclear plants, and the same is true of most other countries.
Although safety concerns are paramount right now, the construction of new nuclear plants faces another hurdle: they are very expensive.
New nuclear power plants have high up-front costs (which can be politically challenging), including a very complicated, slow, and fraught planning process.
Then there is the question of maintaining existing plants.
Moreover, given that the plants are already paid for, waste facilities are already in place, and the high decommissioning cost will have to be paid regardless of timing, the actual operating costs are very low – half or lower per kilowatt-hour than the cost of the cheapest fossil fuels.
The number-one component of any fertilizer is nitrogen, and the first of the two German researchers, Fritz Haber, discovered how to work the dangerous, complex chemistry needed to pull nitrogen out of the atmosphere – where it is abundant but useless for fertilizer – and turn it into a substance that can grow plants.
Today, jaw-droppingly huge Haber-Bosch plants, much refined and improved, are humming around the world, pumping out the hundreds of thousands of tons of fertilizers that enrich the fields that grow the crops that become the sugars and oils and cattle that are cooked into the noodles and chips, pizza, burritos, and snack cakes that make us fat.
Do you know which plants are toxic?
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