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Taking stock of subsurface microbial communities at Hanford

Taking a census provides valuable information about residents' ages, employment, makeup, living conditions, etc. Most censuses are taken door to door or by mail. But if the community lives in areas that are ...

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created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

University team says Canadian oil sands mining plans don’t include damage to peatlands

(PhysOrg.com) -- David Schindler and colleagues at the University of Alberta have published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in which they detail what they believe is the true i ...

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created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Touch of gold improves nanoparticle fuel-cell reactions

Advances in fuel-cell technology have been stymied by the inadequacy of metals studied as catalysts. The drawback to platinum, other than cost, is that it absorbs carbon monoxide in reactions involving fuel ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

European airlines rally against EU carbon tax: source

Airbus and six European airlines have written to four EU leaders attacking the carbon tax imposed by the European Union, a source close to the dossier told AFP Sunday.

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created Mar 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

EU to keep carbon tax on airlines

The European Union will maintain its carbon tax imposed on airlines operating in its airspace, the Danish climate minister said, despite retaliatory trade measures by China.

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Mid-Atlantic suburbs can expect an early spring thanks to the heat of the big city

If you've been thinking our world is more green than frozen these days, you're right. A recent study has found that spring is indeed arriving earlier – and autumn later – in the suburbs of Baltimore ...

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created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Poland to nix EU's 2050 climate targets: report

Poland is threatening to veto European Union 2050 targets for emissions reductions at a Friday meeting of the bloc's environment ministers in Brussels, a Polish media report said Wednesday.

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Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation

The Burgess Shale of British Columbia is arguably the most important fossil deposit in the world, providing an astounding record of the Cambrian "Explosion," the rapid flowering of complex life from single-celled ancestors. ...

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created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Aviation agency asks EU to delay airline carbon tax

The head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Tuesday urged the European Union to delay rolling out a carbon tax on air travel next year, warning it could provoke trade wars.

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created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study advances science of carbon accounting

Determining with precision the carbon balance of North America is complicated, but researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have devised a method that considerably advances the science.

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created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A finger to the wind

Like testing the wind direction before taking flight, researchers led by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory assessed the meteorological conditions during a large observational study of carbon-containing ...

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created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study quantifies effect of soot on snow and ice, supporting previous climate findings

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), published in Nature Climate Change, has quantitatively demonstrated that black carbon—also known ...

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created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Singapore top carbon emitter in Asia-Pacific: WWF

Affluent Singapore had the largest carbon footprint per head in the Asia-Pacific in 2010, conservation group WWF said Monday.

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created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Weathering of rocks impacts climate change

Chemical weathering of rocks by carbon dioxide dissolved in rainwater has never been taken into account in models of future climate change so far. However, researchers from the Laboratoire Géosciences ...

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created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Final FACE harvest reveals increased soil carbon storage under elevated carbon dioxide

Elevated carbon dioxide concentrations can increase carbon storage in the soil, according to results from a 12-year carbon dioxide-enrichment experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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