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Keyword - Energy
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IN BRIEF: Spanish solar companies slammed over subsidy fraud - Premium content
31 December 2008
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Salmon study sparks row over dams - Premium content
Results dismissing link to fish mortality are called into question.
27 October 2008
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IN BRIEF: UK launches department to focus on climate change - Premium content
8 October 2008
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Brazil braced for unexpected oil wealth - Premium content
President appoints committee to exploit reservoirs found on coast.
24 September 2008
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Europe's energy funding 'unbalanced' - Premium content
International Energy Agency calls for more funds for non-nuclear technologies in Europe.
10 September 2008
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IN BRIEF: China pauses on turning coal into liquid fuel - Premium content
10 September 2008
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Q+A: All fired up - Premium content
American climate scientist James Hansen explains why he's testifying against coal.
5 September 2008
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IN BRIEF: The energy election - Premium content
In the first of a special series of election podcasts starting this week, Nature gathered an expert panel to discuss how energy and climate issues will play out in the US presidential election. Excerpts:
3 September 2008
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Do the locomotion - Premium content
Rail travel produces more than a third less emissions than road transport #20; even though trains carry 7% of traffic, they emit just 0.2% of the carbon monoxide, 2% of nitrogen oxides and 1% of the volatile organic compounds. Although electric passenger trains are relatively green, most of the world's trains are used for haulage and run on diesel. In the latest of our Future Transport series, Duncan Graham-Rowe sees trains switching to a greener track.
27 August 2008
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Whatever floats your boat - Premium content
Shipping is one of the most fuel-efficient ways to move freight, but the industry still produces significant greenhouse-gas emissions, including more than a quarter of the world's nitrogen oxides emissions. And it also produces more sulphur dioxide emissions than all land transportation combined. In the latest of our Future Transport series, Duncan Graham-Rowe looks at the new wave in shipping.
20 August 2008
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