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Why Wind Power is a Sham
London :: United Kingdom | 1 month ago
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even the most large-scale shift to wind power cannot slow greenhouse gas emissions enough to have any positive effect on the climate , although it may manage to make things worse...A study published in Nature Climate Change in September found that
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Microbes Thriving Deep Within the Earth
Uxbridge :: MA :: USA | 3 months ago
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Every living thing from bacteria to President Barack Obama is made of carbon from exploding stars. Billions of years ago, motes of carbon and other stardust formed the Earth. Carbon is the basis of all life but most vanished deep inside the planet,
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Plants soaking up carbon pollution: report
Sydney :: Australia | 3 months ago
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But the report's main author said this didn't mean the environment was finding new ways of dealing with man-made climate change, warning the biosphere wouldn't be able to store excess carbon forever. The three-year study saw scientists put a value on
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Study: Snail shells melt in acidic oceans
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
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Their shells are made of aragonite that can dissolve rapidly. (CNN) -- Until recently, the main threat to the lives of sea butterflies, tiny snails with winglike lobes that float in ocean currents, had been the fish and birds that rely on them as an
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China strives to increase carbon sinks
Beijing :: China | 6 months ago
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China has been making efforts to increase the country's forest and grassland coverage and enhance protection over these areas in order to increase carbon sinks and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report released Wednesday. In 2011,
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Increasing CO2 helps delay arrival of new ice age
Stockholm :: Sweden | 6 months ago
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37 Washington: Mankind's emissions of carbon dioxide and the resulting temperature increase could prove to be our salvation from the next ice age, a new research has suggested. According to a research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, the
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Digging up dirt on climate change
Nau :: Tajikistan | 6 months ago
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Sun Staff Reporter azdailysun.com Researchers at Northern Arizona University are employing some of the same techniques used to study what lives on and in the human body to answer questions about what lives in the soil around Flagstaff. Their interest
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WOTR: The University of Wyoming kowtows to coal
Laramie :: WY :: USA | 6 months ago
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The University of Wyoming kowtows to coal Writers on the Range Michelle Nijhuis We've got a lot of dead trees in the Rockies...As the region has warmed, bark beetle populations have exploded, and they've been killing off massive swaths of pine and
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Carbon buried in soil by erosion may rise again after 500 years
Brussels :: Belgium | 7 months ago
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Scientists have identified a source of carbon emissions that could play a role in understanding past and future global change. While earlier studies have found that erosion can bury carbon in the soil, acting as a carbon sink, or storage, a new
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Could artificial trees solve the global warming crisis? [Geoengineering]
London :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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We've known about the effects of climate change for decades now, but the past few years (and even months) have been particularly revealing. This past year, for instance, we've seen arctic sea ice levels reach an historic low , while the United States
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