A new IIASA-led study shows that coordinated international action on energy-efficient, climate-friendly cooling could avoid as much as 600 billion tons CO2 equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions in this century.
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(Phys.org)—Instead of dust-bunnies under the sofa, this dust helps form ice crystals that are at the heart of clouds. Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used dust's loftier disposition to create a new ...
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Sep 26, 2012
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The drying up of the Aral Sea has made Central Asia 7% dustier in the last 30 years. Between 1984 and 2015, dust emissions from the growing desert almost doubled from 14 to 27 million tons. This is the result of a study by ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 17, 2024
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Researchers led by Dr. Sho Ohata of the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Japan, Dr. Makoto Koike of the University of Tokyo, and Dr. Andreas Herber of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany, ...
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Nov 4, 2021
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The teeming life in the Southern Ocean, which encircles Antarctica, contributes to brightening the clouds that form there, according to a study published today in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. The clouds are bright because ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2023
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Mercury pollution has a long legacy in the environment. Once released into the air, it can cycle between the atmosphere and ecosystems for years or even decades before ending up deep in the oceans or land.
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Oct 2, 2017
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Population is growing, climate is warming – hence, emission of ammonia (NH3) trace gas from e.g. agriculture will increase worldwide. Recently, scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) for the first time detected ...
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Nov 30, 2016
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Despite a significant reduction in smog-producing toxins in past decade, GTA still violates Canada's ozone standards
Environment
Aug 21, 2014
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting, discharging hundreds of billions of tons of water into the ocean each year. Sea levels are steadily rising.
Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2018
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The 2019/20 wildfires in Australia transported more smoke into the atmosphere than observed ever before anywhere in the world. In the so-called Black Summer, three times as many particles reached high air layers as in the ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 7, 2022
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