Americans are abandoning carbonated drinks, and Coke and Pepsi are relying more than ever on the “flat” drinks and bottled waters.

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Pepsi and Competitors Scramble as Soda Sales Drop

The Canadian firm behind the controversial Keystone XL pipeline will reapply as early as Friday for a federal permit to ship carbon-intense crude oil from Alberta to the United States, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. Read full article > >

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TransCanada expected to reapply for Keystone pipeline permit as soon as Friday

Click to watch video On Gordon Ramsay, Mario Batali says, “He's a good yeller.” Watch the video to find out what our favorite red-headed, Crocs-wearing, seasonally eating chef had to say about hot heads prevailing in the kitchen. Aaaand, if you happen to find yourself in a Mario Batali establishment this Earth Day (that'd be Sunday, April 22), you'll take take home a packet of organic Cherry Belle radish seeds that also doubles as a two for one promotion to visit The New York Botanical Garden this summer. Batali says, “Eating radishes you grew yourself? That’s one way to start lowering your carbon footprint!” To that, we can only yell, “Yes, Chef!” Previously – This is the year you garden and iReport: grow something to eat

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Why chefs yell, according to Mario Batali

The possibility a six-year old girl died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning at a Hampshire campsite is being investigated by police.

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The carbon-based material graphene can help scientists study liquids more clearly using high-power microscopes.

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Graphene windows’ clearer focus

New research provides compelling evidence that the last ice age was ended by a rise in temperature driven by an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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CO2 ‘drove end to last ice age’

With global efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions stalled, the United States and five other countries are launching a new program to cut other pollutants — including methane, soot and hydrofluorocarbons — that also contribute to global warming. Read full article > >

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U.S. will lead new effort to cut global warming from methane, soot

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — An armed eighth-grader gunned down by police officers in the hallway of his Texas middle school Wednesday was brandishing a pellet gun that looked like a firearm, and he refused repeated orders to lower the weapon before the officers opened fire, police said. The carbon-dioxide powered pellet gun 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez was holding looked like a handgun, and the initial report to police that sent officers rushing to Cummings Middle School Wednesday morning was for a student seen holding a gun, Orlando Rodriguez, Brownsville’s interim police chief, said at a news conference. Read full article > >

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Police: Texas eighth-grader killed by police had pellet gun that looked like firearm

Two Nobel laureates involved in creating graphine, a flat sheet of carbon just one atom thick, are among the scientists recognised in the New Year Honours.

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Knighthoods for graphene pioneers

2011 was an unforgettable year with the rise of the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movements challenging the corporate world and a general overall social consciousness. Architects , too, learned that it is our responsibility to design in such a way to enhance and impact some of the world’s urgent concerns: poverty, climate change, unemployment, energy crises and education. With community’s no longer willing to accept the status quo, as we’ve seen in many parts of the world with successful protests, education is a key component for the mass majority. Education has always been a right and architecture has played a vital role in creating school buildings, which have become a teaching tool for urban sprawl in a poverty setting, have responded to climate change, sustainability, energy crises and preservation of culture and heritage. For example, the Children Academy in Haiti, the Boarding School for Girls in India, the Bamboo School in Liberia and The United Nations Relief and Works Agency Zero Carbon Gas Schools in Gaza Palestine, are all exemplary projects that can be set a new standard for architectural education.

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2011: A Year of Change

A month after joining Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi in a televised call to fight climate change in 2008, Newt Gingrich pivoted to a much different message: Increase domestic drilling and block legislation aimed at implementing a “cap-and-trade” system to curb carbon pollution. “We could drill here, drill now and pay less,” Gingrich said in a May 2008 video for his now-defunct nonprofit group, American Solutions for Winning the Future. Read full article > >

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Donations flowed to Gingrich’s nonprofit after he shifted on energy issues in 2008

A decision by the European Union’s highest court on Wednesday could spark a trade war with countries that oppose being forced into Europe’s carbon-trading system.

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Court Upholds Europe’s Plan to Charge Airlines for Carbon Emissions

Experts worry that if the permafrost thaws in the Northern Hemisphere, huge amounts of carbon will be released into the air, greatly intensifying global warming.

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Temperature Rising: Warming Arctic Permafrost Fuels Climate Change Worries

At the UN climate talks, nations appear to be edging their way to agreeing that a process towards a new carbon-cutting deal should start in the New Year.

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UN climate talks heading to deal

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by 5.9 percent, upending the notion that a decline during the recession might persist.

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Record Jump in Carbon Emissions in 2010, Study Finds