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					<title>A nuclear power plan exposes Kenya’s deeper land rights issues</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/a-nuclear-power-plan-exposes-kenyas-deeper-land-rights-issues/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Dec 2025 17:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elodie Toto]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Energy, Governance, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Law, Nuclear Power, and Protests]]>
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							<![CDATA[From the shores of Sanita Kitole’s quiet coastal town of Uyombo in southern Kenya, one can see dolphins bobbing in the water from time to time. The environmental activist has grown deeply attached to the biodiversity of his region, he says, located in Watamu Marine National Park. For several years now, he’s been working with [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[From the shores of Sanita Kitole’s quiet coastal town of Uyombo in southern Kenya, one can see dolphins bobbing in the water from time to time. The environmental activist has grown deeply attached to the biodiversity of his region, he says, located in Watamu Marine National Park. For several years now, he’s been working with community groups, especially women, to reforest mangroves and develop sustainable businesses in Mida Creek. But over the past two years, the town of Uyombo has made headlines, thanks to the government eyeing the area as the site for the first nuclear power plant in Kenya. According to NuPEA, the national nuclear power regulator, the country’s development ambitions could significantly increase its electricity needs, rendering the current electricity production, generated largely by hydropower, insufficient. The potential project has triggered anger among the largely fishing-dependent local population, who say they fear losing their land, their access to the sea, and their livelihoods. “[The proponent of the nuclear plant] just came here. They tell you this is the place that we have chosen to build the power plant. That&#8217;s all. And then you lose everything,” Kitole says. Residents also say the plan for managing radioactive waste is unclear to them, and highlight the project’s proximity to Watamu Marine National Park and Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Protests have erupted over the plans. ​​“They didn’t involve us from the start, didn’t explain what nuclear energy is. When we asked questions, we got arrested,” Kitole says. But despite protests,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/a-nuclear-power-plan-exposes-kenyas-deeper-land-rights-issues/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-312259</doi>				</item>
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					<title>AI data center revolution sucks up world’s energy, water, materials</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/ai-data-center-revolution-sucks-up-worlds-energy-water-materials/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Nov 2025 18:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Gerry McGovernSue Branford]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, Conservation, Data centers, Energy, Environment, extractives, Fossil Fuels, Global Environmental Crisis, Human Rights, Infrastructure, Nuclear Power, Pollution, Social Justice, Solar Power, Technology, Water, Water Pollution, and Wind Power]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2024, the state of Querétaro in north-central Mexico suffered its worst drought in a century, impacting crops and communities. Seventeen of the state’s 18 municipalities were affected, putting drinking water access at risk for thousands of families, according to CONAGUA, Mexico’s National Water Commission. With freshwater already diminished due to worsening climate change, Querétaro [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2024, the state of Querétaro in north-central Mexico suffered its worst drought in a century, impacting crops and communities. Seventeen of the state’s 18 municipalities were affected, putting drinking water access at risk for thousands of families, according to CONAGUA, Mexico’s National Water Commission. With freshwater already diminished due to worsening climate change, Querétaro residents now fear a more calamitous future, with the announcement that 32 new data centers — the physical facilities needed to satisfy humanity’s insatiable desire for Internet-sourced data — planned for the state. Most recently, on Sept. 25, U.S. tech firm CloudHQ announced plans to spend $4.8 billion building Mexico’s biggest ever “hyperscale” data center campus in Querétaro, most likely for cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) computing. It appears likely the state will emerge as Mexico’s data center capital, with a strong emphasis on AI capabilities. The Querétaro growth spurt has angered some local activists, who argue authorities have their priorities wrong, elevating the needs of transnational corporate tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, above those of local communities. “Water is what’s needed for the people, not for these industries,” campaigner Teresa Roldán says. Environmentalist Teresa Roldán Soria (left), is aiding local residents in an area known as Los Sabinos in the municipality of Pedro Escobedo in Querétaro state, Mexico. Here she joins with local people to defend a spring and age-old ahuehuete (Taxodium mucronatum) trees against development. The ahuehute, also known as the Montezuma cypress, is Mexico’s national tree. Image courtesy of Teresa Roldán&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/ai-data-center-revolution-sucks-up-worlds-energy-water-materials/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-309490</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Radioactive leak in Banten exposes workers to danger &#038; reveals regulatory failures</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/radioactive-leak-in-banten-exposes-workers-to-danger-reveals-regulatory-failures/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Oct 2025 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Anggita Raissa]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Java, Southeast Asia, and West Java]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Crime, Disasters, Energy, Environment, Health, Human Rights, Nuclear Power, Pollution, Public Health, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[SERANG, Indonesia — The rain had just passed over Nambo Udik, a village in Cikande, Serang, Banten. The air hung heavy and damp, and puddles lingered in the muddy yard in front of Sakinah and Roni’s home. These days, the couple spends most of their time indoors, gazing out at the quiet street. It has [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SERANG, Indonesia — The rain had just passed over Nambo Udik, a village in Cikande, Serang, Banten. The air hung heavy and damp, and puddles lingered in the muddy yard in front of Sakinah and Roni’s home. These days, the couple spends most of their time indoors, gazing out at the quiet street. It has been more than a month since they last worked after news broke of radioactive contamination in the Modern Cikande Industrial Estate. Sakinah lost her job when PT Bahari Makmur Sejati (BMS Foods), her employer, abruptly shut down. The closure followed an alarming report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Aug. 19, which detected traces of radioactive material in a frozen shrimp shipment from Indonesia. The contaminated batch was traced back to BMS. Government agencies — including the Ministry of Environment, the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (Bapeten), the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) and the police bomb squad Gegana — launched an investigation to uncover the radiation source. What they found led back to PT Metal Technology (PMT), a metal smelting plant in the same industrial zone. There, Roni had worked as a helper for more than 10 years. Tests revealed that the radiation came from Cesium-137, a hazardous isotope commonly associated with nuclear waste. By mid-September, both Roni and Sakinah had undergone medical examinations. Blood tests confirmed they had been exposed to radiation. Roni was prescribed Radiogardase, which is designed to flush Cesium-137 from the body. He takes nine of them&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/radioactive-leak-in-banten-exposes-workers-to-danger-reveals-regulatory-failures/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-308254</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Africa’s largest freshwater lake could be site of Kenya’s nuclear power plant</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/africas-largest-freshwater-lake-could-be-site-of-kenyas-nuclear-power-plant/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Oct 2025 07:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elodie Toto]]>
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						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Alternative Energy, Conservation, Energy, Environment, Environmental Law, Fish, Freshwater, Freshwater Fish, Governance, Indigenous Rights, Lakes, Land Rights, Nuclear Power, Politics, Pollution, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[“It is perfect!” exclaims Anthony Kingi, a member of Uyombo community and an environmental activist. “Kenya doesn’t need it. However, if they must build it, I’m glad it’s not in my backyard.” The “it” Kingi is referring to is a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant that Kenya plans to build. The government has shortlisted three potential [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“It is perfect!” exclaims Anthony Kingi, a member of Uyombo community and an environmental activist. “Kenya doesn’t need it. However, if they must build it, I’m glad it’s not in my backyard.” The “it” Kingi is referring to is a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant that Kenya plans to build. The government has shortlisted three potential locations for the $3.8 billion project. “Kenya is currently in the second phase of nuclear power programme development, with a clear target of connecting nuclear power to the national grid by 2034,” Kenya’s Nuclear Power and Energy Agency (NuPEA) said in a statement to Mongabay. Initial consultations about the project centered on Uyombo, a fishing village in Kilifi county on Kenya’s southeastern coast. The decision sparked significant opposition from both local residents and environmental experts. Over the years, as protests amplified, demonstrators were assaulted by the police, and some were arrested. On June 27 this year, with very little fanfare, the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum announced at the Nuclear Power Conference at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST) that it’s considering building the plant in Luanda Kotieno, in the Bondo area of Siaya county, on the other side of the country. Paul Otiende Amollo, member of parliament for Rarieda, one of six constituencies in Siaya, said during that conference: “Acceptance is important. In Kilifi, they have issues because of nonacceptance. In our case, I understand from NuPEA that they have identified a site around Luanda Kotieno. As the elected member of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/africas-largest-freshwater-lake-could-be-site-of-kenyas-nuclear-power-plant/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘It doesn’t make sense’: Marine biologist on Kenya’s proposed nuclear power plant</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/it-doesnt-make-sense-marine-biologist-on-kenyas-proposed-nuclear-power-plant/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Aug 2025 03:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elodie Toto]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Coral Reefs, Ecosystems, Marine, Marine Animals, and Nuclear Power]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kenya is in the process of building its very first nuclear power station. According to forecasts by the Kenya Nuclear Power and Energy Agency (NuPEA), construction is due to start by 2027 and will produce 1,000 MW of power. The town of Uyombo, in Kilifi county on the Kenyan coast, is one of three sites [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Kenya is in the process of building its very first nuclear power station. According to forecasts by the Kenya Nuclear Power and Energy Agency (NuPEA), construction is due to start by 2027 and will produce 1,000 MW of power. The town of Uyombo, in Kilifi county on the Kenyan coast, is one of three sites where NuPEA considers building the plant. Very quickly, a cry united the population: “Sitaki Nuclear,” no to nuclear power in Swahili. Demonstrations broke out, followed by a lawsuit filed by citizens, which was later dismissed, and a petition was also circulated online. But the project still seems to be going ahead, much to the dismay of residents and some environmentalists. Uyombo is located on the edge of the Mida Creek mangrove swamps, a few kilometers from the Arabuko Sokoke Forest Reserve, the largest remaining coastal forest in East Africa, recognized as a biodiversity hotspot due to the concentration of many endemic species and habitat loss. It lies in close proximity to Watamu National Marine Park and Reserve, recognized as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve because of its coral reefs and the richness of its marine life, including whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) and manta rays (Manta alfredi). What impact could this project have on this biodiversity? Peter Musila is a marine biologist and program coordinator with the NGO A Rocha Kenya. For the NGO, he monitors the state of the region&#8217;s corals and is involved in their restoration. As a coral specialist, he is livid about this&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/it-doesnt-make-sense-marine-biologist-on-kenyas-proposed-nuclear-power-plant/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-305133</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indonesia civil society groups raise concerns over proposed Borneo nuclear reactor</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/indonesia-civil-society-groups-raise-concerns-over-proposed-borneo-nuclear-reactor/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 May 2024 00:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Irfan Maulana]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Environmental Policy, Islands, Nuclear Power, Politics, Renewable Energy, and Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Civil society organizations in Indonesia staged protests in late April to raise awareness of a planned nuclear plant near Pontianak, capital of West Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo. “We are advocating that West Kalimantan be kept away from the threat of a nuclear radiation disaster. Indonesia is not Chernobyl,” said Hendrikus [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Civil society organizations in Indonesia staged protests in late April to raise awareness of a planned nuclear plant near Pontianak, capital of West Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo. “We are advocating that West Kalimantan be kept away from the threat of a nuclear radiation disaster. Indonesia is not Chernobyl,” said Hendrikus Adam, executive director of the West Kalimantan chapter of the Indonesia Forum for the Environment, a national NGO known as Walhi, referring to the site of a notorious 1986 nuclear meltdown in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Indonesia’s first experimental nuclear reactor, the TRIGA Mark II, opened in the city of Bandung in February 1965. Since then, however, the world’s fourth-largest country has yet to open a full-fledged nuclear power station. In March 2023, Indonesia and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) signed a partnership agreement to develop small modular reactor technology for the archipelago’s power network. The agreement included a $1 million grant to PLN, the state-owned power utility, to carry out feasibility studies on a nuclear reactor. PLN has proposed a 462-megawatt facility in West Kalimantan, which would use technology supplied by NuScale Power OVS, a publicly traded company based in Oregon in the U.S. In capacity terms, that represents almost one-tenth of the giant Paiton coal-fired complex in East Java province, a mainstay of the Java-Bali power grid. Walhi&#8217;s action to reject plans to build a nuclear power plant in West Kalimantan in front of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/indonesia-civil-society-groups-raise-concerns-over-proposed-borneo-nuclear-reactor/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-281986</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Long-term wildlife impacts at Chornobyl, Fukushima may yield ‘a new ecology’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/long-term-wildlife-impacts-at-chornobyl-fukushima-may-yield-a-new-ecology/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Dec 2023 15:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Annelise Giseburt]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Japan, and Ukraine]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Disasters, Diseases, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Health, Mammals, Nuclear Power, Planetary Health, Pollution, Research, Restoration, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world’s two worst nuclear accidents, in Ukraine and Japan, along with the human exclusion zones around them, are informing scientists about radiation effects, and how ecosystems evolve with less pressure from people.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Note to readers: “Chornobyl” is the Ukrainian spelling of “Chernobyl,” which is the Russian version, a spelling change requested by the Ukrainian government following its independence from the USSR. Mongabay has chosen to use the Ukrainian spelling throughout this story. Wolves lope through the Chornobyl nuclear power plant exclusion zone in the 2019 documentary Our Planet, as naturalist and TV presenter David Attenborough reminds viewers: “Hunters like these would only return if their prey and the surrounding forest is also thriving. “No unprotected human being can stay here for long without lethal risk,” he then explained, “But in driving us out, the radiation has created space for wildlife to return.” Attenborough is not the first to claim that nature can thrive in nuclear exclusion zones; indeed, the Our Planet script drew from scientific literature. However, there’s no consensus among the scientific community on this question, with researchers continuing to investigate and debate the ongoing effects of radioactive contamination on the environment in Chornobyl, Ukraine, and in Fukushima, Japan — the sites of the world’s two worst nuclear power plant accidents to date. Although individual-level radiation impacts on numerous animal and plant species have been widely observed and acknowledged, some researchers have found evidence of population-level, or even ecosystem-level impacts, while others haven’t. Study design, including target species, sample size, and method of estimating radiation dose, potentially colors these findings. Others argue that the body of research on nuclear exclusion zone organisms and ecosystems point in sum to neither a restoration,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/long-term-wildlife-impacts-at-chornobyl-fukushima-may-yield-a-new-ecology/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Nuclear pioneers press ahead with plans for Indonesia island frontier</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/nuclear-pioneers-press-ahead-with-plans-for-indonesia-island-frontier/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/nuclear-pioneers-press-ahead-with-plans-for-indonesia-island-frontier/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>24 Jul 2023 16:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Nopri Ismi]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Environmental Policy, Islands, Nuclear Power, Politics, Renewable Energy, and Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[PALEMBANG, Indonesia — In February 1965, President Sukarno, flanked by aides and a photographer, unlocked the door to Indonesia’s first experimental nuclear reactor, the TRIGA Mark II, in the city of Bandung. Six decades later, the world’s fourth-largest country has yet to open a nuclear power station. However, on a remote island of Indonesia in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[PALEMBANG, Indonesia — In February 1965, President Sukarno, flanked by aides and a photographer, unlocked the door to Indonesia’s first experimental nuclear reactor, the TRIGA Mark II, in the city of Bandung. Six decades later, the world’s fourth-largest country has yet to open a nuclear power station. However, on a remote island of Indonesia in a challenging strait, a little-known company is hoping to spark change using a frontier nuclear technology. In March this year, PT Thorcon Power Indonesia announced it had signed an agreement with Indonesia’s nuclear regulator to begin “safety, security, and safeguards consultation in preparation for licensing the 500 MW demonstration nuclear power plant” on Gelasa Island in Bangka-Belitung province. The Indonesia entity is a subsidiary of the Singapore-based power firm ThorCon International, Pte. Ltd. The company’s reactor design is a scaled version of a molten-salt reactor, the subject of an experiment at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S. state of Tennessee during the 1960s. ThorCon claims the electricity generated by a realized project would cost 3 cents per kilowatt hour (in 2021 coal generation in Indonesia cost more than 4 cents per kilowatt hour). If the Gelasa Island facility is built, ThorCon’s power plant could diversify Indonesia’s grid with a new energy technology generating no direct carbon emissions — in 2022, Indonesia hiked its commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 31.8% by 2030, with most of the reduction to come from land use. “This consultation agreement is a major milestone that indicates that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/nuclear-pioneers-press-ahead-with-plans-for-indonesia-island-frontier/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>From agribusiness to oil to nuclear power and submarines: welcome to anti-environmental Putin-Bolsonaro alliance (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/from-agribusiness-to-oil-to-nuclear-power-and-submarines-welcome-to-anti-environmental-putin-bolsonaro-alliance-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Aug 2022 04:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Nikolas Kozloff]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay User]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Agribusiness]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[As if all the strategic and political aspects of the Putin-Bolsonaro alliance weren’t detrimental enough, underlying environmental considerations add yet another undesirable dimension.  Meeting with Putin at the Kremlin literally one week before Moscow invaded Ukraine, the president of Brazil posed for photos with his Russian counterpart.  Far from expressing any concern about looming Russian [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As if all the strategic and political aspects of the Putin-Bolsonaro alliance weren’t detrimental enough, underlying environmental considerations add yet another undesirable dimension.  Meeting with Putin at the Kremlin literally one week before Moscow invaded Ukraine, the president of Brazil posed for photos with his Russian counterpart.  Far from expressing any concern about looming Russian aggression, Bolsonaro remarked that he stood “in solidarity with Russia,” and “my reading of President Putin is that he is a man of peace.”  Apparently, Bolsonaro feels an affinity towards Putin, since both politicians have adopted a macho persona while embracing authoritarianism, nationalism and cultural conservatism. Beyond such common personality traits, however, Bolsonaro’s meeting with Putin reflects the growing importance of Brazilian agribusiness, which represents a quarter of the South American country’s GDP.  Brazil is the world’s largest exporter and producer of soybeans, which are mostly used for animal feed, and agribusiness provides key political and financial support to Bolsonaro.  Indeed, during the 2018 presidential election, Brazil’s farming sector overwhelmingly backed Bolsonaro’s candidacy, and, since that time, the ruralista agribusiness lobby has managed to secure influential support in Congress.  Brazil imports most of the fertilizers it needs to farm soybeans, in addition to other crops.  Significantly, Russia is the source of almost a quarter of such fertilizer imports. Reportedly, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry has been muted in its criticisms of Russia at the United Nations due to political pressure from agribusiness, and diplomats have expressed concern that sanctions against Moscow could affect fertilizer imports.  During&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/from-agribusiness-to-oil-to-nuclear-power-and-submarines-welcome-to-anti-environmental-putin-bolsonaro-alliance-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bangladesh power bill mounts amid plan to supersize already bloated capacity</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/bangladesh-power-bill-mounts-amid-plan-to-supersize-already-bloated-capacity/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 May 2022 06:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abu Siddique]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Development, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Finance, Governance, Industry, Nuclear Power, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[A glut of electricity-generating capacity means Bangladesh is paying hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives to power producers that aren’t churning out any electricity, according to a government report. The country’s total installed capacity — the combined output of all its power plants working at full capacity — is 22,031 megawatts, while total demand [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A glut of electricity-generating capacity means Bangladesh is paying hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives to power producers that aren’t churning out any electricity, according to a government report. The country’s total installed capacity — the combined output of all its power plants working at full capacity — is 22,031 megawatts, while total demand for electricity in the country is just 13,792 MW. That’s according to the Bangladesh Power Development Board’s (BPDB) 2020-21 annual report, and puts the country’s electricity overcapacity at nearly 60%. Under the terms of its various agreements with power producers, the government pays the latter what’s known as a capacity charge, meant to ensure electricity is always available on tap, even if it means paying them to remain idle. For the 2020-21 fiscal year, the capacity charge paid to 37 private power producers amounted to the equivalent of $1.35 billion, the BPBD report says. During the same period, the government also paid out the equivalent of $1.39 billion in subsidies to state-owned electricity utilities, the report says. These figures make the government’s plans to continue adding capacity “ridiculous,” says Hasan Mehedi, secretary-general of the Bangladesh Working Group on External Debt, a group of NGOs and activists. Mehedi adds the actual overcapacity is more than the estimate, as electricity consumption declines during the winter months (to about 8,000 MW, according to the BPBD report). More projects, more financial pressure The Bangladesh government is embarking on several large-scale power projects, including building seven coal-fired plants with total&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/bangladesh-power-bill-mounts-amid-plan-to-supersize-already-bloated-capacity/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-255594</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Novel chemical entities: Are we sleepwalking through a planetary boundary?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/novel-entities-are-we-sleepwalking-through-a-planetary-boundary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/novel-entities-are-we-sleepwalking-through-a-planetary-boundary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>23 Sep 2021 12:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Claire Asher]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, Global, India, Russia, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Chemicals, Disasters, Environment, Environmental Law, Ethics, Governance, Green, Herbicides, Microplastics, Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Pesticides, Plastic, Poisoning, Politics, Pollution, Research, Toxicology, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Our pollution of the planet with heavy metals, plastics, industrial chemicals, pesticides and more is pushing Earth systems to the limit, and us closer to crossing a dangerous planetary boundary we don’t understand.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Hinkley, California, USA, 1952-1966: A Pacific Gas and Electric powerplant releases 1.4 billion liters (370 million gallons) of wastewater laced with carcinogenic chromium-6 into unlined ponds, polluting groundwater for the town’s 2,000 residents, leading to a successful $333 million class-action lawsuit (and an Academy Award-winning movie). Minamata, Japan, 1956: A Chisso chemical factory dumps wastewater contaminated with methylmercury into Minamata Bay. This extremely active and toxic form of mercury, which causes severe neurological damage in adults and developing fetuses, kills 600 people and leaves more than 3,000 with lifelong disabilities. Niagara Falls, New York, USA, 1978: The Hooker Chemical Company improperly disposes of 21,000 tons of hazardous and carcinogenic chemicals, including dioxin, into the Love Canal landfill. It resurfaces in surrounding homes, elevating the risk of miscarriages and birth defects, forcing hundreds of families to relocate. Bhopal, India, 1984: A leak at a Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant releases 40 tons of deadly methylisocyanate (MIC) gas from a storage tank. More than 20,000 people are killed and hundreds of thousands injured. Over the years, survivors were twice as likely to die of cancer, lung disease or tuberculosis. Pripyat, Ukraine, USSR, 1986: The No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explodes, releasing more than 6 tons of radioactive material; 28 people die of acute radiation syndrome and thousands more suffer long-term effects. Lingering radiation creates a perpetual 2,600-square-kilometer (1,000-square-mile) human exclusion zone. Flint, Michigan, USA, 2014: The municipality pumps untreated, lead-contaminated river water into municipal tap water, exposing 100,000&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/novel-entities-are-we-sleepwalking-through-a-planetary-boundary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-247451</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indonesia probes suspected nuclear waste dumping at housing estate</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/02/indonesia-probes-suspected-nuclear-waste-dumping-at-housing-estate/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Feb 2020 09:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Barita News LumbanbatuBasten Gokkon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Java, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Crime, Energy, Environment, Health, Nuclear Power, Pollution, Public Health, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Authorities in Indonesia have launched an investigation following the discovery of radioactive contamination in an empty lot in a housing complex near a nuclear research facility. The Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency, or Bapeten, recorded elevated levels of the radioactive isotope caesium-137 from a routine test at the estate in South Tangerang, a satellite [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Authorities in Indonesia have launched an investigation following the discovery of radioactive contamination in an empty lot in a housing complex near a nuclear research facility. The Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency, or Bapeten, recorded elevated levels of the radioactive isotope caesium-137 from a routine test at the estate in South Tangerang, a satellite city of Jakarta. The agency has since 2013 conducted regular checks in the estate, which is part of a complex that includes a research reactor run by the National Nuclear Energy Agency, or Batan. Radiation levels in the empty lot showed 680 millisieverts (mSv) per hour when experts checked at the end of January. That’s about the same as the maximum level of radiation that workers responding to the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown in Japan in 2011 were exposed to. The normal level determined by Indonesian regulators is 0.03 mSv per hour. “We found it in the form of shards, so we need to examine it in our laboratory to identify the source of the radioactivity,” said Heru Umbara, a Batan spokesman. Authorities have collected material with high levels of radioactivity at a housing estate near a nuclear research reactor outside Jakarta. Image by Barita News Lumbanbatu/Mongabay Indonesia. Authorities have collected 115 barrels’ worth of soil and vegetation from the affected lot. Radiation levels there have since dropped to “low levels,” they say, but cleanup efforts were still underway as of Feb. 16. Direct exposure to large amounts of caesium-137 can cause burns, nausea and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/02/indonesia-probes-suspected-nuclear-waste-dumping-at-housing-estate/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-227220</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In a country long wary of nuclear, an Indonesian chases the thorium dream</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/in-a-country-long-wary-of-nuclear-an-indonesian-chases-the-thorium-dream/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/in-a-country-long-wary-of-nuclear-an-indonesian-chases-the-thorium-dream/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>12 Jun 2018 09:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Nadine Freischlad]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Environmental Policy, Nuclear Power, Politics, Renewable Energy, and Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[2018CSTF]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — In 2013, Bob Effendi was at a turning point. He wanted to leave the oil company he was working for. He had growing concerns about climate change and regretted the role his industry was playing in it. “I had internal conflicts with my boss and my conscience,” he recounts. Effendi, an engineer by [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — In 2013, Bob Effendi was at a turning point. He wanted to leave the oil company he was working for. He had growing concerns about climate change and regretted the role his industry was playing in it. “I had internal conflicts with my boss and my conscience,” he recounts. Effendi, an engineer by training, quit and gave himself one year to study renewable energy. He attended seminars around the world, hoping to learn how to power a cleaner future with wind, solar, hydro and geothermal resources. Instead, he became a proponent of nuclear energy. But not just any nuclear energy. The ideas of a group of researchers spearheaded by a former NASA engineer named Kirk Sorensen had caught his attention. In the early 2000s, Sorensen had begun trying to revive interest in an alternative type of reactor, one that uses the element thorium instead of uranium to start the nuclear reaction, and liquid fuel instead of solid rods to sustain it. The technology was decades old, but never brought to commercial maturity. Sorensen came to believe it could make the next generation of nuclear power plants much safer and easier to manage, and provide the world with an abundance of clean, cheap and safe energy. To Effendi, it sounded too good to be true. But the more he studied the technology, he says, the more he became convinced it could solve the energy problems of his home country, Indonesia. The world’s fourth-most populous nation, home to some 260&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/in-a-country-long-wary-of-nuclear-an-indonesian-chases-the-thorium-dream/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>COP23: Trump team leads ‘surreal’ coal-gas-nuke climate summit panel</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/cop23-trump-team-leads-surreal-coal-gas-nuke-climate-summit-panel/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/cop23-trump-team-leads-surreal-coal-gas-nuke-climate-summit-panel/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>14 Nov 2017 12:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Justin Catanoso]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Global Environmental Impacts of US Policy]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Alternative Energy, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Coal, Controversial, Economics, Energy, Environment, Environmental Policy, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Green, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Politics, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[Trump advisors and fossil fuel industry reps argued that “energy security and economic development” trumped climate action; they were met with derision and disbelief by the COP23 audience.]]>
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							<![CDATA[The panelists, from left: Dave Banks, a Trump international energy adviser; Francis Brook, a Trump energy adviser; Barry Worthington, a Trump energy adviser and head of the U.S. Energy Association; Amos Hochstein, a former Obama energy adviser who now consults for the natural gas industry; Holly Krutka, an engineer with Peabody Coal; Lenka Kollar, an engineer with NuScale nuclear power company. Photo by Justin Catanoso BONN, Germany – On Tuesday evening, 13 November, Trump administration energy advisers along with coal, natural gas and nuclear power industry representatives conducted an hour-long panel at COP23 during which they prioritized international “energy security and economic development” above climate mitigation. To those in the audience, the presentation seemed wildly out of touch and “surreal,” in a world whose climatic balance has tipped dangerously out of kilter due to human-caused global warming. “Promoting coal at a climate summit is like promoting tobacco at a cancer summit,” said former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is leading the U.S. subnationals delegation representing U.S. states, cities, companies and colleges dedicated to climate action at the COP23 summit. Given that the U.S. is now the world leader in oil and gas reserves due to fracking, and now stands ready under President Trump to ramp up exports, the self-serving nature of the event seemed obvious to many in the audience, as the presenters emphasized their deep concern for developing nations having sufficient fossil fuels to meet their future energy needs. Trump-approved panelists also spoke of their concern for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/cop23-trump-team-leads-surreal-coal-gas-nuke-climate-summit-panel/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Conservationists ask, &#8216;Is nuclear the way to go?&#8217;</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/01/conservationists-ask-is-nuclear-the-way-to-go/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Jan 2015 15:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Anna Ikarashi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Biofuels, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Philosophy, Energy, Environment, Green, Nuclear Power, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists call for a &#8216;non-prejudiced&#8217; judgment on nuclear power Nuclear power at times faces antagonism from the environmental community, with opponents arguing that it produces harmful radioactive waste, leads to the proliferation of nuclear arms, and brings forth lethal disasters. Scientists from Australia say it&#8217;s time to get past myths about nuclear; they suggest in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists call for a &#8216;non-prejudiced&#8217; judgment on nuclear power Nuclear power at times faces antagonism from the environmental community, with opponents arguing that it produces harmful radioactive waste, leads to the proliferation of nuclear arms, and brings forth lethal disasters. Scientists from Australia say it&#8217;s time to get past myths about nuclear; they suggest in a paper published in Conservation Biology that implementing nuclear power at a larger scale is a positive compromise for fulfilling both energy supply and conservation needs. The average person in developed countries uses energy worth 3,200 tons of coal over their lifetimes, a mass equivalent to 800 elephants. Meeting the energy demands of modern standards of living and conserving biodiversity is a struggle because energy production involves carbon emissions, pollution, and land use change. These trigger the degradation and loss of habitat, which are two of the most prominent drivers of species loss. Renewable energy is a &#8220;green&#8221; alternative to fossil fuels, but its installation can disturb habitat. For instance, hydroelectric plants alter aquatic systems, wind turbines require large land masses, and biofuels can be produced from agrarian areas cultivated at the expense of pristine forests. &#8220;For the least direct harm to biodiversity, the best energy options are those that use the least amount of land and fresh water (in production or mining), minimize pollution (e.g., carbon dioxide, aerosols, heavy metals, and toxic chemicals), restrict habitat fragmentation, and have a low risk of accidents that have large and lasting regional impacts on natural areas,&#8221; write&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/01/conservationists-ask-is-nuclear-the-way-to-go/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/top-10-environmental-stories-of-2013/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Dec 2013 14:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Amazon, Asia, Australia, Brazil, Central America, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Europe, Indonesia, Latin America, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Animals, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Climate Science, Coal, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Crime, Deforestation, Elephants, Endangered Species, Energy, Environment, Environmental Law, Extreme Weather, Fires, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Governance, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, Logging, Mapping, Marine, Marine Animals, Media, Mitigation, Nuclear Power, Oceans, Oil, Palm Oil, Parks, Poaching, Politics, Pollution, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Rhinos, Saving Species From Extinction, Sea Turtles, Solutions, Storms, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Also see our Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013. Elephant in South Africa. The poaching crisis in Africa is number six on our annual top ten list. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. 1. Carbon concentrations hit 400ppm while the IPCC sets global carbon budget: For the first time since our appearance on Earth, carbon [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Also see our Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013. Elephant in South Africa. The poaching crisis in Africa is number six on our annual top ten list. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. 1. Carbon concentrations hit 400ppm while the IPCC sets global carbon budget: For the first time since our appearance on Earth, carbon concentrations in the atmosphere hit 400 parts per million. The last time concentrations were this high for a sustained period was 4-5 million years ago when temperatures were 10 degrees Celsius higher. Meanwhile, in the slow-moving effort to curb carbon emissions, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) crafted a global carbon budget showing that most of the world&#8217;s fossil fuel reserves must be left untouched if we are to avoid catastrophic climate change. 2. China begins to tackle pollution, carbon emissions: As China&#8217;s environmental crisis worsens, the government has begun to unveil a series of new initiatives to curb record pollution and cut greenhouse emissions. The world&#8217;s largest consumer of coal, China&#8217;s growth in emissions is finally slowing and some experts believe the nation&#8217;s emissions could peak within the decade. If China&#8217;s emissions begin to fall, so too could the world&#8217;s. 3. Russia arrests 30 anti-Arctic oil Greenpeace activists and journalists: On September 19th, the Russian military stormed the Arctic Sunrise, a Greenpeace vessel that was in the Russian Arctic to protest oil drilling. All 30 people on the ship&#8212;including a videographer and a journalist&#8212;were held in prison for two months before being released&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/top-10-environmental-stories-of-2013/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Top scientists propose ambitious plans to safeguard world from devastating climate change</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/top-scientists-propose-ambitious-plans-to-safeguard-world-from-devastating-climate-change/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Dec 2013 18:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Climate Science, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Governance, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mitigation, Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Oil, Politics, Renewable Energy, Sea Levels, and Sustainability]]>
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							<![CDATA[World must aim for one degrees Celsius warming, instead of two say leading scientists. Two degrees is too much: that&#8217;s the conclusion of a landmark new paper by top economists and climatologists, including James Hansen formerly of NASA. The paper, appearing in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, argues that global society must aim for only [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[World must aim for one degrees Celsius warming, instead of two say leading scientists. Two degrees is too much: that&#8217;s the conclusion of a landmark new paper by top economists and climatologists, including James Hansen formerly of NASA. The paper, appearing in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, argues that global society must aim for only one degree Celsius of warming above pre-industrial levels to avoid the worst impact of climate change, and not the two degrees Celsius agreed on by the world&#8217;s governments. But given that the world&#8217;s governments are not yet on track to even achieve the two degree target, how could we lock in just one? A combination of renewable energy, nuclear power, and, most importantly, a rising price on carbon emissions, according to the eighteen scientists. &#8220;Rapid emissions reduction is required to restore Earth’s energy balance and avoid ocean heat uptake that would practically guarantee irreversible effects,&#8221; the scientists write. &#8220;Continuation of high fossil fuel emissions, given current knowledge of the consequences, would be an act of extraordinary witting intergenerational injustice.&#8221; Global temperatures have already risen approximately 0.8 degrees Celsius. Graph courtesy of Hansen et al. The scientists argue that allowing the climate to warm two degrees Celsius would lead to massive and devastating impacts, including rising sea levels that could hit six meters above current levels within a few hundred years, essentially swamping the world&#8217;s coastal populations. Evidence for this lies in the Eemian period, when global temperatures were around 2 degrees Celsius warmer than today.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/top-scientists-propose-ambitious-plans-to-safeguard-world-from-devastating-climate-change/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Japan pledges to raise carbon emissions, instead of cutting them</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/japan-pledges-to-raise-carbon-emissions-instead-of-cutting-them/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Nov 2013 14:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s decision to weaken carbon emissions target a &#8216;slap in the face&#8217; to poor countries. In 2009, Japan pledged to cut its carbon emissions by 25 percent based on 1990 levels within 11 years. Four years later&#8212;including a nuclear meltdown at Fukushima&#8212;and Japan has reset its goal with a new target to cut emissions by [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s decision to weaken carbon emissions target a &#8216;slap in the face&#8217; to poor countries. In 2009, Japan pledged to cut its carbon emissions by 25 percent based on 1990 levels within 11 years. Four years later&#8212;including a nuclear meltdown at Fukushima&#8212;and Japan has reset its goal with a new target to cut emissions by 3.8 percent based on 2005 levels at the UN Climate Summit in Warsaw, Poland. But, the new target, which received widespread condemnation when announced on Friday, actually results in a 3.1 percent rise in emissions when viewed from the widely-accepted 1990 baseline. &#8220;The new target is based on zero nuclear power in the future. We have to lower our ambition level,&#8221; said Hiroshi Minami, Japan&#8217;s delegate at the 19th annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Since the meltdown at Fukushima, Japan has shuttered all 50 of its nuclear power plants and largely turned to importing fossil fuels to make up the difference. Before Fukushima, nuclear power made up nearly a third of Japan&#8217;s energy mix, and the country had expected to push that even further; while the Japanese government still hopes to reopen some of its nuclear power plants, there is no timeline in place. Despite Japan&#8217;s nuclear issues, many nations were quick to criticize the world&#8217;s third largest economy for backtracking so far. &#8220;The announcement represents a huge step backwards in the global effort to hold warming below the essential 1.5-2 degrees celsius threshold, and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/japan-pledges-to-raise-carbon-emissions-instead-of-cutting-them/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Another record in global carbon emissions puts globe on track for &#8216;devastating consequences&#8217;</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/another-record-in-global-carbon-emissions-puts-globe-on-track-for-devastating-consequences/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 May 2012 15:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Surface coal mining in Bihar, India. Around 40 percent of India&#8217;s power is currently provided by coal, the most carbon intensive fuel source. Last year global carbon dioxide emissions rose 3.2 percent to a new record of 31.6 gigatons, keeping the planet on track to suffer dangerous climate change, which could propel global crop failures, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Surface coal mining in Bihar, India. Around 40 percent of India&#8217;s power is currently provided by coal, the most carbon intensive fuel source. Last year global carbon dioxide emissions rose 3.2 percent to a new record of 31.6 gigatons, keeping the planet on track to suffer dangerous climate change, which could propel global crop failures, sea level rise, worsening extreme weather, and mass extinction. According to data from the International Energy Agency (IEA), China&#8217;s carbon emissions rose the most last year (9.3 percent) while emissions in Europe and the U.S. dipped slightly. China is the currently the world&#8217;s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, while the U.S. has emitted the most historically. &#8220;When I look at this data, the trend is perfectly in line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius [11 degrees Fahrenheit], which would have devastating consequences for the planet,&#8221; Fatih Birol, economist with the IEA, told Reuters. China&#8217;s massive growth in emissions last year was linked to higher coal consumption in the economically booming nation. In addition to China, India also saw a similar spike of 8.7 percent in its carbon dioxide emissions, pushing the nation to become the world fourth largest carbon emitter after China, the U.S. and the EU. Russia dropped to number five. Japan&#8217;s emissions increased 2.4 percent due to greater reliance on fossil fuel power after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima. Both the U.S. and the EU saw slight declines in their emissions. U.S. carbon emissions dropped 1.7 percent due to a rise&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/another-record-in-global-carbon-emissions-puts-globe-on-track-for-devastating-consequences/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30861</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Black Swans and bottom-up environmental action</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/02/black-swans-and-bottom-up-environmental-action/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Feb 2012 15:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ryan King]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#8220;History does not crawl, it jumps.&#8221;- Nassim Nicholas Taleb &#8220;This is an opportunity for greatness which has never been offered to any civilization… in human history before &#8211; to act as a generation to do the right thing &#8211; and if we fail to receive that opportunity to act on it then my feeling is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#8220;History does not crawl, it jumps.&#8221;- Nassim Nicholas Taleb &#8220;This is an opportunity for greatness which has never been offered to any civilization… in human history before &#8211; to act as a generation to do the right thing &#8211; and if we fail to receive that opportunity to act on it then my feeling is we will become the most vilified generation that has ever lived in human history.&#8221; &#8211; Dr. Roger Payne, Ocean Alliance The defining events shaping the modern world &#8211; economic, social, environmental, progressive and disruptive &#8211; are frequently characterized as &#8220;Black Swans.&#8221; The Black Swan term and theory were characterized by author and analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb who explains, &#8220;What we call here a Black Swan (and capitalize it) is an event with the following three attributes. First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. Second, it carries an extreme impact. Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.&#8221; Taleb identifies the emergence of the internet, the attacks of September 11, 2001, the popularity of Facebook, stock market crashes, the success of Harry Potter, and World War I as among Black Swan events. Circumstances in the environmental realm share many similarities with those historical jumps and Black Swans identified by Taleb. Throughout time, and especially during the current era, changes in the status&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/02/black-swans-and-bottom-up-environmental-action/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2011</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/12/top-10-environmental-stories-of-2011/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Dec 2011 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy HanceRhett Ayers Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Amazon, Arctic, Asia, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil, Britain, East Africa, Europe, Greenland, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, North America, Norway, Russia, Somalia, South America, Tanzania, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Animals, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Crime, Dams, Deforestation, Disasters, Drought, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Fish, Fishing, Food, Forestry, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hunger, Hydroelectric Power, Impact Of Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Law Enforcement, Mammals, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Migration, Mitigation, Nuclear Power, Oceans, Oil, Oil Spills, Overpopulation, Parks, Poaching, Politics, Pollution, Population, Poverty, Protected Areas, Protests, Pulp And Paper, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Rhinos, Roads, Saving Rainforests, Saving Species From Extinction, Sharks, Solutions, Temperatures, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Medicine, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, Water, Water Scarcity, Weather, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Victories won by activists around the world tops our list of the big environmental stories of the year. In this photo: a young woman is placed in handcuffs and arrested for civil disobedience against the Keystone XL Pipeline in the U.S. In all, 1,252 people were arrested in the two week long action. Photo by: [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Victories won by activists around the world tops our list of the big environmental stories of the year. In this photo: a young woman is placed in handcuffs and arrested for civil disobedience against the Keystone XL Pipeline in the U.S. In all, 1,252 people were arrested in the two week long action. Photo by: Josh Lopez/Tar Sands Action. People flex their strength, climate change accelerates, and Indonesia works to stem deforestation. Below is a review of some of the biggest environmental stories of 2011. People power: activism makes good (Hance) Many of 2011&#8217;s most dramatic stories on environmental issues came from people taking to the streets. With governments and corporations slow to tackle massive environmental problems, people have begun to assert themselves. Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three-year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/12/top-10-environmental-stories-of-2011/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>IEA warns: five years to slash emissions or face dangerous climate change</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/11/iea-warns-five-years-to-slash-emissions-or-face-dangerous-climate-change/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Nov 2011 19:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Science, Coal, Disasters, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Governance, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Nuclear Power, Oil, Politics, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[Not known for alarmism and sometimes criticized for being too optimistic, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that without bold action in the next five years the world will lock itself into high-emissions energy sources that will push climate change beyond the 2 degrees Celsius considered relatively &#8216;safe&#8217; by many scientists and officials. &#8220;As [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Not known for alarmism and sometimes criticized for being too optimistic, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that without bold action in the next five years the world will lock itself into high-emissions energy sources that will push climate change beyond the 2 degrees Celsius considered relatively &#8216;safe&#8217; by many scientists and officials. &#8220;As each year passes without clear signals to drive investment in clean energy, the &#8216;lock-in&#8217; of high-carbon infrastructure is making it harder and more expensive to meet our energy security and climate goals,&#8221; says Fatih Birol, IEA Chief Economist. The IEA has warned that if business-as-usual continues, already existing infrastructure and its dependence on inefficient and dirty energy will provide society with no wiggle-room to stem climate change. Currently, infrastructure already in place or being built already &#8216;locks in&#8217; 80 percent of future emissions. This of course presupposes that governments will refuse to shut-down high-emissions energy sources even after climate change impacts worsen. The IEA predicts that carbon-intensive coal could jump 65 percent by 2035, and that oil prices are likely to hit $150 a barrel. On the other side, the agency predicts that by 2035, renewable subsidies will jump by four times hitting $250 billion annually, though this is still well below current fossil fuel subsidies at $409 billion. The organization further warns that moving away from nuclear energy, following the Fukushima disaster, may make it more difficult and expensive to combat climate change. &#8220;Growth, prosperity and rising population will inevitably push up energy needs&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/11/iea-warns-five-years-to-slash-emissions-or-face-dangerous-climate-change/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Germany proves the promise of renewable energy: hits 20 percent renewables</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/09/germany-proves-the-promise-of-renewable-energy-hits-20-percent-renewables/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Sep 2011 13:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Karimeh Moukaddem]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[As many people in the United States question whether renewable energy is a viable alternative to fossil fuels, Germany now derives 20.8 percent of its electricity from renewable sources&#8212;a 15 percent increase since 2000, reports Der Spiegel. In contrast, the United States generates only 10 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, 6 percent of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As many people in the United States question whether renewable energy is a viable alternative to fossil fuels, Germany now derives 20.8 percent of its electricity from renewable sources&#8212;a 15 percent increase since 2000, reports Der Spiegel. In contrast, the United States generates only 10 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, 6 percent of which comes from hydroelectric power, which some environmentalists see as unacceptably damaging. In the last year alone, Germany&#8217;s share of renewable electricity increased from 18.3 to 20.8 percent, and the country plans for further growth. German Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s government aims to derive no less than 35 percent of the country&#8217;s energy from renewable sources by 2020. Opposition parties believe 40 or more percent of Germany&#8217;s energy could be sustainable by 2020. Over the past decade, wind and biomass have fueled Germany&#8217;s growth in clean energy. In 2011, however, photovoltaic (solar energy) began driving growth in the renewable energy sector—even though Germany receives roughly the same amount of sunlight as Alaska. Photovoltaic solar power increased more than 76 percent in the past year and now accounts for 3.5 percent of electricity production&#8212; more than hydropower. Considering hydroelectricity contributes only 3.3 percent of Germany&#8217;s power, the share of solar, wind, and biomass derived energy has grown considerably. &#8220;The renewables are showing their true potential, and that is in spite of numerous attempts to obstruct their progress,&#8221; Anike Peters, an energy expert with Greenpeace Germany, told the Christian Science Monitor. Energy park in Germany: solar on the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/09/germany-proves-the-promise-of-renewable-energy-hits-20-percent-renewables/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Nuclear power plant in a national park? Japanese NGOs seek international help</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/11/nuclear-power-plant-in-a-national-park-japanese-ngos-seek-international-help/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Nov 2010 22:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ayako Uozumi]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Environment, Green, Nuclear Power, Oceans, and Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Despite pledging broad support for conservation in developing countries at the recent COP10 biodiversity summit, this year’s host Japan may be neglecting conservation issues closer to home. The Japanese Biodiversity Hotspot of the Seto Inland Sea coast in Kaminoseki Town, Nagashima island, Yamaguchi Prefecture, also referred to as the &#8220;Last Eden in the Seto Inland [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Despite pledging broad support for conservation in developing countries at the recent COP10 biodiversity summit, this year’s host Japan may be neglecting conservation issues closer to home. The Japanese Biodiversity Hotspot of the Seto Inland Sea coast in Kaminoseki Town, Nagashima island, Yamaguchi Prefecture, also referred to as the &#8220;Last Eden in the Seto Inland Sea&#8221; is home to many important endemic species. Despite being one of the oldest National Parks in Japan (established in 1934), this Eden is now the center of controversial plans to construct a nuclear power plant directly within its borders. Unusually for Japanese land use change projects, which normally meet little opposition, for the last 30 years a power plant proposal led by Chugoku Electric Power Company (CEPC) has been heavily criticized by a coalition consisting of locals from the nearby island of Iwaishima, environmentalists, and national scientific bodies. To date, their protests have blocked the development. However, planning approval for the initial land reclamation stage, granted in 2008, reopened uncertainty about the site. Oct 26th, Atomic Energy Day, Japanese and international NGOs distributed leaflets to conference participants near the COP10 site. To prevent the planning approval from being acted upon, volunteers have been continually occupying the site in sea kayaks and boats. Despite this, 1 day before COP10, CEPC began land reclamation work at the nuclear site. The environmentalists have strong support: 860,000 have signed a submitted petition to the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), and three scientific societies (Ecological Society, Japanese&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/11/nuclear-power-plant-in-a-national-park-japanese-ngos-seek-international-help/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bill Gates: larang batu bara dan berinvestasi di teknologi energi bersih</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/06/bill-gates-larang-batu-bara-dan-berinvestasi-di-teknologi-energi-bersih/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Jun 2010 07:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Green, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, and Solar Power]]>
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							<![CDATA[Planet membutuhkan &#8220;keajaiban energi&#8221; untuk mengatasi tantangan ganda dari memenuhi permintaan energi dan mengatasi perubahan iklim, ujar penemu Microsoft Bill Gates dalam pidato Jumat di Konferensi TED di Long Beach, California. &#8220;Yang akan harus kita lakukan dalam skala global adalah menciptakan sistem baru,&#8221; ungkap Gates. &#8220;Sehingga kita membutuhkan keajaiban energi.&#8221; Hanya beberapa minggu setelah yayasannya [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Planet membutuhkan &#8220;keajaiban energi&#8221; untuk mengatasi tantangan ganda dari memenuhi permintaan energi dan mengatasi perubahan iklim, ujar penemu Microsoft Bill Gates dalam pidato Jumat di Konferensi TED di Long Beach, California. &#8220;Yang akan harus kita lakukan dalam skala global adalah menciptakan sistem baru,&#8221; ungkap Gates. &#8220;Sehingga kita membutuhkan keajaiban energi.&#8221; Hanya beberapa minggu setelah yayasannya menjanjikan USD 10 milyar untuk penelitian dan distribusi vaksin, Gates berkata bahwa menemukan sumber energi yang bersih dan murah seharusnya menjadi prioritas yang lebih tinggi daripada menciptakan vaksin varu dan meningkatkan teknik pertanian. Gates berkata bahwa dunia perlu untuk mengurangi emisi karbon hingga nol pada tahun 2050 dan menyarankan peneliti untuk mengisi 20 tahun ke depan dengan mengembangkan teknologi baru dan 20 tahun berikutnya menerapkannya. Dia mengatakan batu bara dan gas alam harus dihapus pada tahun 2050 dan menggunakan teknologi penangkapan dan penyimpanan karbon dan angin, fotovoltaik dan panas solar, dan tenaga nuklir. Menurut CNN, Gates berfokus pada memproses kembali limbah reaktor menjadi energi. &#8220;Sebutir molekul uranium memiliki jutaan kali energi lebih banyak daripada sebutir molekul batubara,&#8221; ucapnya. &#8220;Dalam energi, [potongan bahan bakar uranium yang telah terpakai] bisa menyelesaikan masalah.&#8221; Gates memperkirakan potongan bahan bakar yang telah terpakai di Amerika Serikat dapat memberikan tenaga kepada negara untuk 100 tahun. Dia menambahkan menyaring uranium dari air laut bisa menjadi sumber energi yang sangat besar.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/06/bill-gates-larang-batu-bara-dan-berinvestasi-di-teknologi-energi-bersih/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bill Gates: ban coal and invest in clean energy technology</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/02/bill-gates-ban-coal-and-invest-in-clean-energy-technology/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Feb 2010 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[The planet needs &#8220;energy miracles&#8221; to overcome the dual challenges of meeting energy demand and addressing climate change, said Microsoft founder Bill Gates during a speech Friday at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California. &#8220;What we&#8217;re going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system,&#8221; Gates said. &#8220;So we [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The planet needs &#8220;energy miracles&#8221; to overcome the dual challenges of meeting energy demand and addressing climate change, said Microsoft founder Bill Gates during a speech Friday at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California. &#8220;What we&#8217;re going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system,&#8221; Gates said. &#8220;So we need energy miracles.&#8221; Just weeks after his foundation pledged $10 billion for vaccine research and distribution, Gates said finding cheap and clean energy sources should be a higher priority than creating new vaccines and improving farming techniques. Gates said the world needs to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2050 and suggested researchers spent the next 20 years developing new technologies and the follow 20 years implementing them. He said coal and natural gas should be phased out by 2050 and touted carbon capture and storage technology and wind, solar photovoltaic and solar thermal, and nuclear power. According to CNN Gates focused on reprocessing reactor waste into clean energy. &#8220;A molecule of uranium has a million times more energy than a molecule of coal,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;In terms of fuel, [spent uranium fuel rods] really solves the problem.&#8221; Gates estimated that spent fuel rods in the U.S. could power the country for 100 years. He added that filtering uranium from seawater could be a huge energy source.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/02/bill-gates-ban-coal-and-invest-in-clean-energy-technology/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Will &#8216;peak oil&#8217; spur expanded coal use?  And what does it mean for climate?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/12/will-peak-oil-spur-expanded-coal-use-and-what-does-it-mean-for-climate/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Dec 2008 21:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Nuclear Power, Oil, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Solar Power, and Wind Power]]>
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							<![CDATA[Whether oil is succeeded by coal or renewables will have major impact on climate The world must phase out emissions from coal by 2030 to avert dangerous climate change, said scientists speaking at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. Arguing that the planet will face environmental constraints well before fossil [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Whether oil is succeeded by coal or renewables will have major impact on climate The world must phase out emissions from coal by 2030 to avert dangerous climate change, said scientists speaking at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. Arguing that the planet will face environmental constraints well before fossil fuel resources are exhausted, scientists including Jim Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, and Ken Caldeira urged leaders to take bold action to leave coal in the ground and promote the development of low-carbon energy sources including wind, solar, and geothermal. &#8220;Addressing the climate problem means addressing the coal problem,&#8221; said Caldeira, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution&#8217;s Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University. &#8220;Whether there&#8217;s a little more oil or a little less oil will change the details, but if we want to change the overall shape of the warming curve, it matters what we do with coal.&#8221; &#8220;Oil and gas by themselves don&#8217;t have enough carbon to keep us in the dangerous zone for very long by themselves, but that&#8217;s assuming we do something about coal,&#8221; said Kharecha, a researcher at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and Columbia University. &#8220;There are currently more than enough fossil fuels and coal to push us well past safe atmospheric CO2 levels.&#8221; The 2007 rise in global carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations is tied with 2005 as the third highest since atmospheric measurements began in 1958. The red line shows the trend together with seasonal variations. The&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/12/will-peak-oil-spur-expanded-coal-use-and-what-does-it-mean-for-climate/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Gore launches second campaign&#8230; for Earth</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/07/gore-launches-second-campaign-for-earth/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Jul 2008 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Gore launches second campaign&#8230; for Earth Gore launches second campaign mongabay.com July 17, 2008 In a speech Thursday, Al Gore challenged the U.S. to generate 100 percent of its electricity from zero carbon emission sources within 10 years. Speaking at Washington&#8217;s Constitution Hall, Gore said America&#8217;s security, environmental and economic crises are all related, and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Gore launches second campaign&#8230; for Earth Gore launches second campaign mongabay.com July 17, 2008 In a speech Thursday, Al Gore challenged the U.S. to generate 100 percent of its electricity from zero carbon emission sources within 10 years. Speaking at Washington&#8217;s Constitution Hall, Gore said America&#8217;s security, environmental and economic crises are all related, and that measures to rein in greenhouse gas emissions will make the U.S. stronger, safer, and cleaner. &#8220;The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk,&#8221; Gore said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously.&#8221; The Vulcan Project maps American carbon dioxide emissions. The map shows annual emissions in 2002 (kilotons of carbon) from urban centers (larger red patches), widely scattered point sources like remote power stations or smelters (small red dots), and highways. (Map by Jesse Allen, based on data from the Vulcan Project.) &#8220;We are borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that&#8217;s got to change,&#8221; the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 continued. &#8220;But if we grab hold of that common thread and pull it hard all of these complex problems begin to unravel and we will find that we are holding the answer to all of them right in our hand. The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels. I&#8217;m convinced that one reason&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/07/gore-launches-second-campaign-for-earth/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Clean energy gold rush in 2007</title>
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							<![CDATA[Clean energy investments rose 60% to $148 billion in 2007 Clean energy gold rush in 2007 mongabay.com July 1, 2008 New investment in renewables and energy efficiency surpassed $148 billion in 2007, rising 60 percent rise from 2006, according to an analysis issued Tuesday July 1 by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). High oil prices [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Clean energy investments rose 60% to $148 billion in 2007 Clean energy gold rush in 2007 mongabay.com July 1, 2008 New investment in renewables and energy efficiency surpassed $148 billion in 2007, rising 60 percent rise from 2006, according to an analysis issued Tuesday July 1 by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). High oil prices drove the trend. &#8220;Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2008&#8221; reports that wind energy saw the most investment ($50.2 billion in 2007), but solar power grew most rapidly, attracting some $28.6 billion of new capital and growing at an average annual rate of 254% since 2004. Europe saw the largest investment flows, followed by the United States. China, India and Brazil saw growing investor interest, their share of new investment growing from 12% in 2004 ($1.8 billion) to 22% in 2007 ($26 billion). For the year the total value of renewable energy transactions was $204.9 billion, of which $98.2 billion went into new renewable energy generation, $50.1 billion went into technology development and manufacturing scale-up, and $56.6 billion was exchanged through mergers and acquisitions. Sustainable energy companies accounted for 19% of all new capital raised by the energy sector in global stock markets for the year. The 31 gigawatts of newly installed generation from renewable sources accounted for 23% of new power capacity added globally in 2007, roughly 10 times that of nuclear. The report predicts that renewable energy investment will reach $450 billion a year by 2012 and more than $600 billion a year&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/07/clean-energy-gold-rush-in-2007/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>$45 trillion needed to meet energy demand, fight global warming by 2050</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/06/45-trillion-needed-to-meet-energy-demand-fight-global-warming-by-2050/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Jun 2008 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[$45 trillion needed to meet energy demand, fight global warming by 2050 $45 trillion needed to meet energy demand, fight global warming by 2050 mongabay.com June 8, 2008 Investors will need to spend $45 trillion by 2050 to keep pace with growing energy demand while addressing concerns over global warming, warned the International Energy Agency [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[$45 trillion needed to meet energy demand, fight global warming by 2050 $45 trillion needed to meet energy demand, fight global warming by 2050 mongabay.com June 8, 2008 Investors will need to spend $45 trillion by 2050 to keep pace with growing energy demand while addressing concerns over global warming, warned the International Energy Agency in a report issued Friday. &#8220;The world faces the daunting combination of surging energy demand, rising greenhouse gas emissions and tightening resources. A global energy technology revolution is both necessary and achievable; but it will be a tough challenge,&#8221; Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, said in a statement released at the launch of the latest edition of Energy Technology Perspectives (ETP). The report, issued biennially, says that a business-as-usual approach to meeting energy needs will result in a 130 percent rise in carbon dioxide emissions and a 70 percent increase in oil demand. &#8220;Such growth of oil demand raises major concerns regarding energy supply access and investment needs,&#8221; said Mr. Tanaka. &#8220;We are very far from sustainable development, despite the widespread recognition of the long-term problem. In fact, CO2 emissions growth has accelerated considerably in recent years,&#8221; Mr. Tanaka said. &#8220;Higher oil and gas prices result in a rapid switch to coal. Moreover rapid growth in China and India, both coal-based economies, has also contributed to this deteriorating outlook.&#8221; To avoid this outcome, ETP recommends significant improvements in energy efficiency along with the development of cleaner technologies and carbon capture and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/06/45-trillion-needed-to-meet-energy-demand-fight-global-warming-by-2050/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Carbon tax, not subsidies, will spur nuclear power</title>
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					<pubDate>09 Sep 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon tax, not subsidies, will spur nuclear power Carbon tax, not subsidies, will spur nuclear power mongabay.com September 9, 2007 A U.S. carbon tax, not government subsidies, should be used to spur investment in nuclear power, says The Economist. In its &#8220;Leaders&#8221; editorial section, the UK-based financial publication states that concerns over global warming and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon tax, not subsidies, will spur nuclear power Carbon tax, not subsidies, will spur nuclear power mongabay.com September 9, 2007 A U.S. carbon tax, not government subsidies, should be used to spur investment in nuclear power, says The Economist. In its &#8220;Leaders&#8221; editorial section, the UK-based financial publication states that concerns over global warming and energy security may well spawn a new era for nuclear power, but that tax-payers should not be asked to foot the bill for building plants as they have in the past. The editorial notes that while nuclear power plants have high upfront costs, once operational, they produce cheap, carbon-free energy. Though there are valid concerns about proliferation and the handling of nuclear waste, The Economist argues that new designs and technologies are cutting maintenance and repair costs for nuclear plants while safety is improving. It says the general public &#8212; even some in the environmental lobby &#8212; is warming to the idea of nuclear power. These points aside, The Economist says that the best way to see whether nuclear has a future is to level the playing field for energy through a carbon tax. Such a tax would force energy producers to bear the full cost of the damages wrought by pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Nuclear and renewable energy sources &#8212; wind, solar, and geothermal &#8212; would see the biggest gains in terms of price competitivenss with conventional energy sources. &#8220;[T]he economics of nuclear still look uncertain. That&#8217;s partly because its green virtues do&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/09/carbon-tax-not-subsidies-will-spur-nuclear-power/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Nobel prize winner debates future of nuclear power</title>
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					<pubDate>07 Jun 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Nobel prize winner debates future of nuclear power Nobel prize winner debates future of nuclear power Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com June 7, 2007 Two renowned energy experts sparred in a debate over nuclear energy Wednesday afternoon at Stanford University. Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an energy think tank, argued [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nobel prize winner debates future of nuclear power Nobel prize winner debates future of nuclear power Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com June 7, 2007 Two renowned energy experts sparred in a debate over nuclear energy Wednesday afternoon at Stanford University. Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an energy think tank, argued that energy efficiency and alternative energy sources will send nuclear power the way of the dinosaurs in the near future. Dr. Burton Richter, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics, said that nuclear would play an important part of the future energy portfolio needed to cut carbon emissions to fight global warming. Lovins: micropower and negawatts will kill nuclear power Lovins opened by noting the global decline in nuclear power plants, a trend he attributed to two powerful market forces: energy efficiency (i.e. &#8220;negawatts&#8221;) and supply competition. &#8220;Global nuclear expansion is coasting to a halt,&#8221; he said, noting that the last nuclear rector was completed in the U.S. was in 1973 and that even under China&#8217;s most ambitious targets for nuclear expansion, it would displace only 10 percent of the nuclear capacity that will soon go offline. Lovins said the reason for the decline is cost: on an even playing field with no hidden subsidies, nuclear is simply more expensive than other options, especially co-generation. Photo courtesy of the Department of Energy (DOE). Lovins argued nuclear plants are currently being financed only in places where they are either mandated by governments or supported with&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/06/nobel-prize-winner-debates-future-of-nuclear-power/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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