News tagged with climate engineering
Study takes novel 'back-casting' approach to transform cities for healthier lives
Researchers at four of the country's leading universities are embarking on a low carbon engineering project that could transform the way cities are built, as well as the way we live in them, by taking a novel 'back-casting' ...
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Hold the salt: Coastal drinking water more vulnerable to water use than climate change
(PhysOrg.com) -- Human activity is likely a greater threat to coastal groundwater used for drinking water supplies than rising sea levels from climate change, according to a study conducted by geoscientists from the University ...
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Research reveals new data-driven methods for understanding climate change
(PhysOrg.com) -- In February 2012, the journal Nature Climate Change will publish a paper on rainfall extremes in India by principal investigator Vipin Kumar of the University of Minnesota's computer scienc ...
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Survey finds public support for geoengineering research
Research on geoengineering appears to have broad public support, as a new, internationally-representative survey revealed that 72 per cent of respondents approved research into the climate-manipulating technique.
Oct 24, 2011 |
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SPICE geoengineering project delayed due to critics issues
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month it was announced that a group of researchers had come together to start a geoengineering project called Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE). Its aim ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 05, 2011 |
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New parallelization technique boosts our ability to model biological systems
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for using multi-core chips more efficiently, significantly enhancing a computer's ability to build computer models of biological systems. The technique ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Solar-powered nano sensor targets gases more polluting than carbon
(PhysOrg.com) -- A solar-powered sensor station to monitor in real time the concentration of gases that are key culprits in climate change and air pollution has been installed on a QUT Gardens Point roof as ...
May 30, 2011 |
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Climate change from black carbon depends on altitude
Scientists have known for decades that black carbon aerosols add to global warming. These airborne particles made of sooty carbon are believed to be among the largest man-made contributors to global warming because they absorb ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 14, 2011 |
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Tweaking the climate to save it: Who decides?
(AP) -- To the quiet green solitude of an English country estate they retreated, to think the unthinkable.
Apr 03, 2011 |
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Report identifies risks to UK infrastructure
A report published today highlights the serious damage which climate change could cause to UK society and the economy by crippling vital services such as electricity, roads and broadband.
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Surf's up: New research provides precise way to monitor ocean wave behavior, shore impacts
Engineers have created a new type of "stereo vision" to use in studying ocean waves as they pound against the shore, providing a better way to understand and monitor this violent, ever-changing environment.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 28, 2011 |
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Iowa State engineer and Goodrich partner to develop next-generation fuel nozzle diagnostic systems
A green laser flashed across the high-pressure spray that fuels a jet engine. Those flashes, some just 50 millionths of a second apart, froze the droplets for a camera to record and a computer to analyze.
Dec 22, 2010 |
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Scientists offer better ways to engineer Earth's climate to prevent global warming
There may be better ways to engineer the planet's climate to prevent dangerous global warming than mimicking volcanoes, a University of Calgary climate scientist says in two new studies.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 07, 2010 |
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Projection shows water woes likely based on warmer temperatures
(PhysOrg.com) -- Several Midwestern states could be facing increased winter and spring flooding, as well as difficult growing conditions on farms, if average temperatures rise, according to a Purdue University ...
Feb 17, 2010 |
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