Environment & Geology

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IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Peter Fairley	Europe Looks to North America's Forests to Meet Renewable Energy Goals Emissions reductions, however, may prove smaller and slower than once expected
Chemistry World March 21, 2012 Stafford & Kuramochi	Quake-hit Japanese universities move on To sum up the general feeling in the Japanese research community: 'The general mood [after the earthquake] was down. Now people are starting to think: "We have to move on."'
Chemistry World March 6, 2012 Peng Tian	China Battles More River Spills Although the Chinese central government hopes to ease the pressure of water pollution accidents, the implementation of its policies has an uncertain future.
IEEE Spectrum March 2012 Eliza Strickland	Virgin Oceanic's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Virgin Oceanic hopes to launch a new era of manned deep-sea exploration
Chemistry World February 20, 2012 Patrick Walter	Risk of water pollution by fracking overstated The hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, process - injecting high pressure water, sand and chemicals into a shale bed to release natural gas - is not responsible for groundwater contamination, according to a new study.
Chemistry World February 7, 2012 James Urquhart	Treating hospital wastewater Researchers have found that hospital wastewater containing low concentrations of pharmaceutical compounds can be treated using a membrane bioreactor - an established method of biologically treating wastewater.
Chemistry World February 3, 2012 Patrick Walter	NERC asks institutes to weed out poor grants The UK Natural Environment Research Council is planning to ask institutes to winnow out 'uncompetitive' proposals in an effort to drive up its grant application success rates.
Chemistry World February 2012	Keeping the tap on James Mitchell Crow investigates routes to quenching our thirst without costing the Earth.
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 John Kappenman	A Perfect Storm of Planetary Proportions The approach of the solar maximum is an urgent reminder that power grids everywhere are more vulnerable than ever to geomagnetic effects
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Peter Fairley	Undersea Observatory Survives Setback Neptune Canada recovers from an outage and its U.S. counterpart finally gets started
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