California landscape of climate finance
To support California in meeting its climate goals and using its budget most effectively, CPI created this first-of-its-kind landscape of climate finance in California, building on the flagship Global
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California Faces Risk In Carbon Gold Rush
California is putting its reputation as a pioneering environmental heavyweight on the line as it prepares to launch a carbon market in eight months' time. State regulators are battling the clock, the courts and their own empty pockets as they prepare to oversee the start of the multi-billion dollar carbon market on January 1, 2012. The idea of capping greenhouse gas emissions and providing c
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Exposure to pesticides prior to birth results in lower IQs
Chicago: Babies exposed to pesticides before birth may have significantly lower intelligence scores by age 7 than children who were not exposed, three separate studies published on Thursday said.
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Desert dawn
Some solar plants need to be big; most of them don
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Google puts $168 m in Solar Project in California
CALIFORNIA Internet search major Google has invested $168 million to help complete the construction of one of the world's biggest solar energy power plants in the Mojave Desert region of the US. The plant will generate 392 mw energy when completed in 2013, sufficient to supply power to 85,000 homes a year.
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Google invests $168 m in solar energy project
California, April 12: Popular Internet engine Google has invested $168 million to help complete the construction of one of the world
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Use exposure relationships of pesticides for aquatic risk assessment
<p>Field-scale environmental models have been widely used in aquatic exposure assessments of pesticides. Those models usually require a large set of input parameters and separate simulations for each pesticide in evaluation. In this study, a simple use-exposure relationship is developed based on regression analysis of stochastic simulation results generated from
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Impact of the California lead ammunition ban on reducing lead exposure in Golden Eagles and Turkey Vultures
<p>Predatory and scavenging birds may be exposed to high levels of lead when they ingest shot or bullet fragments embedded in the tissues of animals injured or killed with lead ammunition. Lead poisoning was a contributing factor in the decline of the endangered California condor population in the 1980s, and remains one of the primary factors threatening species
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Lead exposure in free-flying Turkey vultures is associated with big game hunting in California
<p>Predatory and scavenging birds are at risk of lead exposure when they feed on animals injured or killed by lead ammunition. While lead ammunition has been banned from waterfowl hunting in North America for almost two decades, lead ammunition is still widely used for hunting big game and small game animals.
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Radiation plume likely to reach California today
A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late on Friday. Health and nuclear experts emphasize that radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels and, at worst, would have extremely minor health
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California tsunami damage $50 million
Boston: The tsunami that thrashed California's coast, triggered by the devastating earthquake in Japan, has caused damage totalling about $ 50 million in the west coast state.