The National Marine Fisheries Service opened a public process today to determine whether to prohibit fishing for Pacific bluefin tuna, which have suffered a 96 percent decline since large-scale fishing began. The action followed the Center for Biological Diversity’s rulemaking petition sent in April.
The Pacific bluefin population’s historic low triggered a requirement for new regulations to better manage overfishing by April 8, 2014, but regulators thus far have declined to take any steps to help the fish. Today’s request for comments is the federal government’s first step to spur action from the Pacific Fishery Management Council.
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The concept of a national carbon tax is a hard sell for most people these days. According to a recent poll, only 34 percent of U.S. respondents said they would support taxing fossil fuels like oil, gas or natural gas. But support for a carbon tax changes dramatically when it comes to scenarios in which the funds are either reimbursed to taxpayers or used to fund renewable energy projects.
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Europe's installed wind capacity will increase at a slower rate to the end of the decade than previously estimated, due to regulatory uncertainty and weak economic growth, an industry association said on Wednesday (23 July).
European Union countries will have a combined 192.4 gigawatts (GW) of installed wind energy capacity by 2020, 64% higher than 2013 levels, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) said in a report.
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El tamaño y la edad de las plantas tienen más impacto en su productividad que la temperatura y la precipitación, de acuerdo con un estudio histórico de investigadores de la Universidad de Arizona.
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Usted probablemente ha escuchado que el derretimiento del permafrost es un gran contribuyente al aumento de los niveles de gases de efecto invernadero en nuestra atmósfera, y que el permafrost en derretimiento puede incluso causar una aceleración imparable del calentamiento global. Sin embargo, una nueva investigación con el apoyo de la National Science Foundation (NSF), presenta un contraargumento de este punto de vista cientÃfico, ampliamente difundido, de que el deshielo del permafrost acelera uniformemente calentamiento de la atmósfera, indicando que algunos lagos del Ãrtico, en cambio, almacenan más gases de efecto invernadero que los que se emiten a la atmósfera.
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The planet's soil releases about 60 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year, which is far more than that released by burning fossil fuels. This happens through a process called soil respiration. This enormous release of carbon is balanced by carbon coming into the soil system from falling leaves and other plant matter, as well as by the underground activities of plant roots.
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