The carbon cycle
A2 - recommended- Animation -22/12/2009
Explanations about the carbon cycle.
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Organic food is really taking off in France. Forty-six percent of French people put at least one organic produce in thei ... |
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Tara Oceans expeditions to map effects of climate change on marine life. |
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| The Solar Impulse ... |
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Solar-powered plane made its first test-flight in December. |
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| Cereplast, a greener alternative to plastic ... |
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It looks like plastic, and feels like plastic, but is not the plastic that environmentalists love to hate. Cereplast pro ... |
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| French prisoners go organic ... |
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Organic is all the rage across France -- even in its prisons, where one community of inmates is now raising its own pest ... |
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| Spain's 'guardian angels' help cut prison suicides ... |
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In a bid to reduce suicide attempts in its prisons, the city of Leon in northern Spain has created a team of "guardian a ... |
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| New Norway power plant uses salt to make electricity ... |
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Norway unveiled the world's first osmotic power plant on Tuesday, harnessing the energy-unleashing encounter of freshwat ... |
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| Climate: CO2 emissions ... |
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Pollution in figures. |
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| Canadian firms tout 'green' Christmas trees ... |
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Going "green" has never been so festive as in westernmost Canada where two start-ups are offering an eco-friendly Christ ... |
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| Apocalypse Cow: Can vegan celebs save the planet? ... |
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On Ecorazzi.com, self-proclaimed provider of green gossip, Paul McCartney and other green celebs offer meat-free Christm ... |
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| Harnessing the power of salt, Norway tries osmotic power ... |
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After wind, sun, currents and tides, a company is preparing to make clean electricity by harnessing another natural phen ... |
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| Peru's 'cloud catchers' harvest water ... |
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A new innovation is helping Peru's most isolated communities -- nets which "catch" clouds in the country's Andean height ... |
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| French anti-poverty organisation Emmaus turns 60 ... |
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Emmaus, France's biggest NGO fighting poverty across the world, is 60 this year. The organisation was founded by Catholi ... |
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| May the best solar house win ... |
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During the US Deptartment of Energy's October Solar Decathlon competition, 20 international teams of university students ... |
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| Fashion's green future: sustainable fabrics ... |
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Pesticides in cotton growing, chemical-laden dyes and huge energy consumption make the textile industry a big burden on ... |
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| Organic products boom in Poland ... |
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Across central Europe, the demand for organic products is rising. The industry is still a long way off from the boom in ... |
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| Superheroes, here we come! ... |
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There is a superhero inside each one of us, ready to save the world. That's the positive message promoted by Superheroes ... |
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| Oil-rich Brunei to have solar power plant ... |
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Brunei, one of the world's top oil and gas producers, is venturing into alternative energy with the construction of Sout ... |
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| The Uninsured queue for free health care ... |
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Traveling medical clinics have never been so popular in the United States. With at least 45 million Americans uninsured ... |
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| Americans in need to feed themselves on the rise ... |
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The number of Americans needing financial help to feed themselves is on the rise. The latest figures show 37 million peo ... |
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| North American bands playing to greener tune ... |
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Playing instruments made of naturally fallen trees, packaging albums with recycled materials and fuelling tour buses wit ... |
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| Sahara to Europe solar power plan welcomed ... |
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A 400-billion-euro (560-billion-dollar) plan to pump solar energy from the Sahara to Europe has received a warm welcome ... |
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| Screens replace greens for South Korean golfers ... |
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Park Joong-Soon raised his putter triumphantly after sinking a five-metre birdie on the final hole and pocketed his winn ... |
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| Athens residents fight to preserve parks ... |
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Athens is already one of the most densely built cities in Europe, and its inhabitants are engaged in a tug-of-war with a ... |
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| How to develop solar energy? ... |
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As the climate heats up, the world is grappling with how to produce cheap energy from renewable sources. A Californian c ... |
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| Renewable energy helps rehabilitate lives ... |
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Ex-convicts in Los Angeles are being given job training to install solar panels, preparing for them for entry in the gro ... |
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| Brazilian town turning human waste into clean energy ... |
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High in the cool hills of eastern Brazil, this tourist hot spot also known as the Imperial City is attracting worldwide ... |
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| A Washington, DC luxury hotel goes green ... |
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High society hotel guests choosing not to change their sheets or towels, 19th century chandeliers outfitted with energy- ... |
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| Argan oil throws Moroccan women a new lifeline ... |
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Prized for its anti-ageing properties, argan oil is used in cosmetics the world over. Its popularity is giving women who ... |
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| Empire State Building to turn green ... |
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New York's iconic Empire State Building is getting a green make-over as part of larger efforts to make the city's skyscr ... |
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| Empire State Building becomes green giant ... |
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The Empire State Building is switching its windows, all 6,500, as part of a retrofit meant to transform the tower, scene ... |
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| Environment : Radiation all around ... |
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ELECTROSMOG, domestic radiation all around.
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| Greening the Central American skies ... |
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One regional airline is defying the aviation industry’s reputation for causing negative environmental impacts by going c ... |
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| Europe's biggest wind farm planned in Sweden ... |
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Plans to build the biggest wind farm in Europe are underway in Sweden after winning approval from a local county adminis ... |
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| The greening of banking ... |
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Wind turbines in Europe, micro-credit in Africa, organic mango-growing in Asia -- Dutch bank Triodos only finances susta ... |
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| Argentine cooperative makes books from cardboard ... |
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It is a small miracle happening in the middle of a crisis: Argentine cooperative "Eloisa Cartonera" manages to publish e ... |
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| The Pelamis wave energy converter ... |
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One of several systems that use the motion of ocean surface waves to generate electricity. |
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| Singapore-made biofuel to run cars in Europe and North America ... |
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Diesel made from palm oil, vegetable oil and animal fat in Singapore may soon be powering cars in Europe and North Ameri ... |
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| Green spaces narrow health gap between rich and poor ... |
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The rich live longer than the poor but the gap narrows substantially in cities where there are plentiful parks, woods an ... |
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| Going geothermal in Kenya ... |
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With Kenya's energy supply capacity dangerously close to its limit, the country is embracing geothermal energy - a green ... |
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| Economic downturn 'a chance to invest' in green energy: Gore ... |
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The global economic downturn and the crisis in the US financial markets offers the chance for investment in green energy ... |
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| German firm to extend Asia's largest solar power plant ... |
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A German firm said Wednesday it has signed a deal to extend a South Korean solar energy plant which is already Asia's la ... |
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| Cars : Alternatives to petrol ... |
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List of vehicles using renewable energies (hybrid car, electric car, natural gas, fuel cell, solar energy). |
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| Africa's deserts could supply solar electricity to continent ... |
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Solar power from Africa's deserts could supply all 600 million citizens currently without electricity and even export po ... |
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| Cars using alternative energies ... |
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Several solutions have been developed to reduce petrol consumption or to replace it by other another form of fuel.
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| Norwegian island runs on wind power, even when all is still ... |
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How to keep the lights on when all is still and the local windmill won't budge? A small Norwegian island testing a way t ... |
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| The main polluters ... |
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The world main polluters.
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| Wind power breaks records in Spain ... |
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Wind power is breaking new records in Spain, accounting for just over 40 percent of all electricity consumed during a br ... |
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| Coconut power ... |
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Six to 10 coconut can produce a litre of oil: processing on the Marshall Islands. |
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| Green cities : Stockolm is ahead ... |
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Ranking based on social and environmental criteria. |
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| 'Green living' in the Netherlands ... |
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Energy-neutral houses, homes that put more electricity back into the grid than they take out... in the Netherlands, arch ... |
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