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| 1 | **Wednesday, August 6, 2014** | |
| 1 | **Wednesday, September 3, 2014** | |
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| 5 | 5 | ## Featured Research |
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| 7 | 7 | _from universities, journals, and other organizations_ |
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| 21 | 21 | ## All Environmental Policy News |
| 22 | 22 | |
| 23 | _last updated on 2014-08-06 at 3:33 am EDT_ | |
| 23 | _last updated on 2014-09-03 at 11:33 pm EDT_ | |
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| 27 | 27 | - [summaries view]() |
| 28 | 28 | - [headlines view]() |
| 29 | 29 | |
| 30 | - ### [Wind Energy Cuts the Electricity Bill](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140903105644.htm) | |
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| 32 | Sep. 3, 2014 � The promoting of renewable energy is at the heart of the current debate on energy policy. From an economic perspective, the question focuses on determining the cost of the feed-in tariff systems. A ... [_full story_](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140903105644.htm) | |
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| 34 | - ### [Clean Air Halves Health Costs in Chinese City](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140902114637.htm) | |
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| 36 | Sep. 2, 2014 � Air pollution regulations over the last decade in Taiyuan, China, have substantially improved the health of people living there, accounting for a greater than 50 percent reduction in costs associated ... [_full story_](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140902114637.htm) | |
| 37 | ||
| 38 | #### Wednesday, September 3, 2014 | |
| 39 | ||
| 40 | - [Wide gap in compensation from '07 South Korean oil spill](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140903105807.htm) | |
| 41 | - [Wind energy cuts the electricity bill](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140903105644.htm) | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | #### Tuesday, September 2, 2014 | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | - [Clean air halves health costs in Chinese city](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140902114637.htm) | |
| 46 | ||
| 47 | #### Sunday, August 31, 2014 | |
| 48 | ||
| 49 | - [Changing global diets is vital to reducing climate change, researchers say](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140831150209.htm) | |
| 50 | ||
| 51 | #### Friday, August 29, 2014 | |
| 52 | ||
| 53 | - [Managing coasts under threat from climate change, sea-level rise](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140829083900.htm) | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | #### Thursday, August 28, 2014 | |
| 56 | ||
| 57 | - ['Devil is in the details': Documenting carbon sequestration in Borneo](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140828184741.htm) | |
| 58 | - [Protected areas proven to protect biodiversity](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140828110937.htm) | |
| 59 | - [Study shows where on the planet new roads should and should not go](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140828110638.htm) | |
| 60 | - [Endangered siamese crocodiles released in wild](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140828110122.htm) | |
| 61 | ||
| 62 | #### Wednesday, August 27, 2014 | |
| 63 | ||
| 64 | - [NOAA's Marine Debris Program reports on national issue of derelict fishing traps](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140827111950.htm) | |
| 65 | - [Leading scientists call for a stop to non-essential use of fluorochemicals](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140827100220.htm) | |
| 66 | - [Climate impacts of changing aerosol emissions since 1996](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140827091950.htm) | |
| 67 | ||
| 68 | #### Tuesday, August 26, 2014 | |
| 69 | ||
| 70 | - [Existing power plants will spew 300 billion more tons of carbon dioxide during use](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140826142443.htm) | |
| 71 | - [Trash burning worldwide significantly worsens air pollution](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140826121056.htm) | |
| 72 | - [An inconvenient truth: Does responsible consumption benefit corporations more than society?](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140826112910.htm) | |
| 73 | ||
| 74 | #### Monday, August 25, 2014 | |
| 75 | ||
| 76 | - [Black carbon: Major climate pollutant linked to cardiovascular health](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140825152018.htm) | |
| 77 | ||
| 78 | #### Sunday, August 24, 2014 | |
| 79 | ||
| 80 | - [Cutting emissions pays for itself, study concludes](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140824152339.htm) | |
| 81 | ||
| 82 | #### Wednesday, August 20, 2014 | |
| 83 | ||
| 84 | - [Ozone-depleting compound persists, NASA research shows](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140820173544.htm) | |
| 85 | ||
| 86 | #### Tuesday, August 19, 2014 | |
| 87 | ||
| 88 | - [Exporting U.S. coal to Asia could drop emissions 21 percent](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140819113050.htm) | |
| 89 | - [Economists: Shale oil 'dividend' could pay for smaller carbon footprint](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140819094055.htm) | |
| 90 | ||
| 91 | #### Monday, August 18, 2014 | |
| 92 | ||
| 93 | - [Most complete Antarctic map for climate research made public](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140818204122.htm) | |
| 94 | - [Trees, shrubs invading critical grasslands, diminish cattle production](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140818161355.htm) | |
| 95 | - [No one-size-fits-all approach in a changing climate, changing land](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140818152117.htm) | |
| 96 | - [Compromise needed on roads through sensitive wild areas](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140818135116.htm) | |
| 97 | - [World's primary forests on the brink, study concludes](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140818112937.htm) | |
| 98 | - [International scientific team criticizes adoption of 'novel ecosystems' by policymakers](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140818102026.htm) | |
| 99 | - [Double threat of climate and land use change enhances risks to biodiversity](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140818095212.htm) | |
| 100 | ||
| 101 | #### Thursday, August 14, 2014 | |
| 102 | ||
| 103 | - [Politicians need to address transport taboos, not just new technology, to meet carbon targets, say researchers](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140814212517.htm) | |
| 104 | - [Hydraulic fracturing: Helping businesses predict national fracking policy](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140814123848.htm) | |
| 105 | ||
| 106 | #### Wednesday, August 13, 2014 | |
| 107 | ||
| 108 | - [Antarctica's ice discharge could raise sea level faster than previously thought](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140813182259.htm) | |
| 109 | - [Forest fires in Spain have evolved with climate since 1968](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140813103505.htm) | |
| 110 | - [Giant Amazon fish becoming extinct in many fishing communities, saved in others](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140813103136.htm) | |
| 111 | ||
| 112 | #### Tuesday, August 12, 2014 | |
| 113 | ||
| 114 | - [Climate relicts may help researchers understand climate change](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140812163719.htm) | |
| 115 | ||
| 116 | #### Monday, August 11, 2014 | |
| 117 | ||
| 118 | - [A global temperature conundrum: Cooling or warming climate?](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140811165812.htm) | |
| 119 | - [Rare frogs holding their own despite drought conditions](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140811125155.htm) | |
| 120 | - [Climate change negatively impacting Great Lakes, researcher says](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140811125118.htm) | |
| 121 | ||
| 122 | #### Thursday, August 7, 2014 | |
| 123 | ||
| 124 | - [Air traffic growth set to outpace carbon reduction efforts](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140807215556.htm) | |
| 125 | - [Regulations needed to identify potentially invasive biofuel crops](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140807145616.htm) | |
| 126 | - [All ivory markets must close, study suggests](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140807145458.htm) | |
| 127 | - [Asian carp could establish in Lake Erie with little effect to fishery](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140807121840.htm) | |
| 128 | ||
| 30 | 129 | #### Wednesday, August 6, 2014 |
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| 131 | - [Enhanced international cooperation needed in Antarctica](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140806134519.htm) | |
| 132 | - [Lucky heather plant earns its name in carbon study](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140806124940.htm) | |
| 133 | - [Risks to penguin populations analyzed](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140806102808.htm) | |
| 134 | - [Preparing for a changing climate: Ecologists unwrap the science in the National Climate Change Assessment](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140806095151.htm) | |
| 32 | 135 | - [Study of aerosols stands to improve climate models](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140806024748.htm) |
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| 34 | 137 | #### Tuesday, August 5, 2014 |
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| 36 | 139 | - [Interaction of climate change, fire and forests in U.S.](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140805132510.htm) |
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| 164 | 267 | - [Traffic noise is dangerous for your health: Solutions exist for dense cities](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140701085328.htm) |
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| 166 | 269 | #### Monday, June 30, 2014 |
| 167 | 270 | |
| 168 | 271 | - [Climate change could stop fish finding their friends](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140630193411.htm) |
| 169 | - [Tropical countries' growing wealth may aid conservation](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140630164556.htm) | |
| 170 | - [With climate change, heat more than natural disasters will drive people away](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140630164512.htm) | |
| 171 | - [Water samples teeming with information: Emerging techniques for environmental monitoring](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140630094852.htm) | |
| 172 | - [More carbohydrates make trees more resistant to drought](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140630093637.htm) | |
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| 174 | #### Sunday, June 29, 2014 | |
| 175 | ||
| 176 | - [Emperor penguin in peril: Climate change threatens dramatic declines](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140629142047.htm) | |
| 177 | ||
| 178 | #### Friday, June 27, 2014 | |
| 179 | ||
| 180 | - [To address climate change, nothing substitutes for reducing carbon dioxide emissions](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140627133059.htm) | |
| 181 | - [Progress of comprehensive everglades restoration plan evaluated](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140627113058.htm) | |
| 182 | ||
| 183 | #### Thursday, June 26, 2014 | |
| 184 | ||
| 185 | - ['Land grabbing' could help feed at least 300 million people](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140626213355.htm) | |
| 186 | - [Capturing carbon dioxide emissions needed to meet climate targets](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140626122006.htm) | |
| 187 | - [New NASA images highlight U.S. air quality improvement](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140626115946.htm) | |
| 188 | ||
| 189 | #### Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | |
| 190 | ||
| 191 | - [Invasive watersnakes introduced to California may pose risk to native species](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140625201932.htm) | |
| 192 | - [Win-win-win solution for biofuel, climate, and biodiversity](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140625184903.htm) | |
| 193 | - [Natural resources worth more than US $40 trillion must be accounted for](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140625151534.htm) | |
| 194 | - [Vegetarian diets produce fewer greenhouse gases and increase longevity, say new studies](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140625145536.htm) | |
| 195 | - [New study quantifies the effects of climate change in Europe](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140625132542.htm) | |
| 196 | - [Reorganization of crop production, trade could save China's water supply](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140625132445.htm) | |
| 197 | - [Carrots as effective as sticks for slowing Amazon deforestation](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140625101133.htm) | |
| 198 | ||
| 199 | #### Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | |
| 200 | ||
| 201 | - [World's protected areas not protecting biodiversity, but there is room for hope](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140624215107.htm) | |
| 202 | - [How to protect an American wildlife legacy](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140624172309.htm) | |
| 203 | - [Can coral save our oceans? Soft coral tissue may help protect reefs against the hazardous effects of climate change](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140624172301.htm) | |
| 204 | - [Restricting competitors could help threatened species cope with climate change](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140624110605.htm) | |
| 205 | ||
| 206 | #### Monday, June 23, 2014 | |
| 207 | ||
| 208 | - [Protecting and connecting the Flathead National Forest in Montana](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140623154424.htm) | |
| 209 | - [Organic standards go global](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140623103941.htm) | |
| 210 | - [Air pollution controls linked to lower death rates in North Carolina](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140623091834.htm) | |
| 211 | ||
| 212 | #### Thursday, June 19, 2014 | |
| 213 | ||
| 214 | - [Ontario's far north at risk unless province adopts new, inclusive planning process: Report](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140619125537.htm) | |
| 215 | ||
| 216 | #### Wednesday, June 18, 2014 | |
| 217 | ||
| 218 | - [Re-routing flights could reduce climate impact, research suggests](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140618220639.htm) | |
| 219 | - [Winds of change for the shipping sector](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140618220616.htm) | |
| 220 | - [Identifying opposite patterns of climate change: Hydrologic seesaw over the past 550,000 years](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140618100622.htm) | |
| 221 | - [A call to better protect Antarctica: Human activity threatening continent](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140618100620.htm) | |
| 222 | - [Spanish slug: Busting an invasion myth](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140618071926.htm) | |
| 223 | ||
| 224 | #### Tuesday, June 17, 2014 | |
| 225 | ||
| 226 | - [Shipping needs radical rethink warn climate experts](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140617210346.htm) | |
| 227 | - [Livestock gut microbes contributing to greenhouse gas emissions](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140617121946.htm) | |
| 228 | - [Climate change deflecting attention from biodiversity loss](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140617112006.htm) | |
| 229 | - [Tests confirm that beloved hawk succumbed to multiple rat poisons](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140617091746.htm) | |
| 230 | ||
| 231 | #### Monday, June 16, 2014 | |
| 232 | ||
| 233 | - [Great white shark population in good health along California coast](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140616203726.htm) | |
| 234 | - [U.S. housing policies increase carbon output](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140616130345.htm) | |
| 235 | ||
| 236 | #### Friday, June 13, 2014 | |
| 237 | ||
| 238 | - [Third warmest May in satellite record might portend record-setting El Ni�o](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140613101544.htm) | |
| 239 | ||
| 240 | #### Thursday, June 12, 2014 | |
| 241 | ||
| 242 | - [Double trouble for the Mediterranean Sea: Acidification and warming threaten iconic species](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140612114556.htm) | |
| 243 | ||
| 244 | #### Wednesday, June 11, 2014 | |
| 245 | ||
| 246 | - [Climate change beats biodiversity as a press, scientific, and funding priority](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140611131853.htm) | |
| 247 | - [China today: Culprit, victim or last best hope for a global ecological civilization?](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140611102255.htm) | |
| 248 | - [Somatic embryogenesis system to propagate pine hybrids able to tolerate water stress](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140611102155.htm) | |
| 249 | ||
| 250 | #### Tuesday, June 10, 2014 | |
| 251 | ||
| 252 | - [Costs and benefits of compliance with renewable portfolio standards estimated](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140610205522.htm) | |
| 253 | - [A plan to share carbon budget burden](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140610122007.htm) | |
| 254 | - [Sustaining Brazilian tourism](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140610101320.htm) | |
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