News tagged with atmospheric co2

Fungi shifted plant balance of power

Cooperating with fungi didn't just help the earliest plants spread across a barren, rocky landscape; it also played a decisive role in the rise of more complex plants with roots and leaves that make up most ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Environmental group measures methane seeps in the Arctic

(Phys.org) -- A team of researchers, led by Katey Walter Anthony, of the University of Alaska, has been studying and mapping so-called seeps, holes in lake ice near the edges of glaciers where methane is bubbling ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Ancient plant-fungal partnerships reveal how the world became green

Prehistoric plants grown in state-of-the-art growth chambers recreating environmental conditions from more than 400 million years ago have shown scientists from the University of Sheffield how soil dwelling fungi played a ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Ocean acidification linked to larval oyster failure

Researchers at Oregon State University have definitively linked an increase in ocean acidification to the collapse of oyster seed production at a commercial oyster hatchery in Oregon, where larval growth had ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Green potential of our industrial past

Manipulating the soil in urban and industrial areas in order to capture more carbon from the atmosphere is the “best resource we have to begin to mitigate human CO2 emissions”, experts claim.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

World has five years to avoid severe warming: IEA

The world has just five years to avoid being trapped in a scenario of perilous climate change and extreme weather events, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned on Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (22) | comments 62

How hot did Earth get in the past? Scientists uncover new information

The question seems simple enough: What happens to the Earth's temperature when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase? The answer is elusive. However, clues are hidden in the fossil record. A new study ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 52 | with audio podcast

Debt-hit Greece sees profit in air pollution: report

Greece could earn up to 170 million euros for its cash-strapped treasury from a trade of greenhouse-gas emission allowances on the Athens stock exchange, a report said Sunday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Experts create first legal roadmap to tackle local ocean acidification hotspots

Coastal communities hard hit by ocean acidification hotspots have more options than they may realize, says an interdisciplinary team of science and legal experts. In a paper published in the journal Science, experts from S ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Declining mangroves shield against global warming

Mangroves, which have declined by up to half over the last 50 years, are an important bulkhead against climate change, a study released on Sunday has shown for the first time.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 03, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 9

New method of measuring ocean CO2 uptake could lead to climate change 'early warning system'

An international team of scientists led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) has developed a new method of measuring the absorption of CO2 by the oceans and mapped for the first time CO2 uptake for the entire North Atlantic.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Climate experts debate strategies for reducing atmospheric carbon and future warming

(PhysOrg.com) -- Reducing carbon dioxide to safe levels may require extracting carbon from the air, says Cornell climate researcher.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (15) | comments 26

Oceans absorbing carbon dioxide more slowly, scientist finds

The world's oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO2), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by human activity, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 9

Mankind using Earth's resources at alarming rate

Humanity would need five Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone lived as profligately as Americans, according to a report issued Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (25) | comments 74

Scientists Find Ozone Levels Already Affecting Soybean Yields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Current atmospheric ozone levels are already suppressing soybean yields, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and university cooperators studying the effect of global ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0