News tagged with emission levels

Choosing a Low Radiation Cell Phone

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Environmental Working Group (EWG) team has released a consumer guide on the radiation levels emitted by over 1,000 cell phones sold in the U.S. The guide is the most comprehensive ever ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 10 weblog

Measuring CO2 to fight global warming: Scientists develop way to enforce future greenhouse gas treaty

If the world's nations ever sign a treaty to limit emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide gas, there may be a way to help verify compliance: a new method developed by scientists from the University of ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Researchers study potential effects of geoengineering on global food supply

Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas have been increasing over the past decades, causing the Earth to get hotter and hotter. There are concerns that a continuation of these trends could have catastrophic ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Carbon dioxide affecting fish brains: study

Rising human carbon dioxide emissions may be affecting the brains and central nervous systems of sea fish, with serious consequences for their survival, according to new research.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 15

Researchers push the boundary with high carbon emission scenarios

(PhysOrg.com) -- US and Swiss researchers have, for the first time, modelled a climate system with extremely high carbon emissions in an attempt to test the boundaries of the current computer simulation programs ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study warns of mercury in Arctic

Global mercury emissions could grow by 25 percent by 2020 if no action is taken to control them, posing a threat to polar bears, whales and seals and the Arctic communities who hunt those animals for food, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

L.A., Bakersfield remain among U.S.'s most polluted cities, report says

Smog and soot levels have dropped significantly in Southern California over the last decade, but the Los Angeles region still has the highest levels of ozone nationwide, violating federal health standards an average of 137 ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Rising seas will affect major US coastal cities by 2100

Rising sea levels could threaten an average of 9 percent of the land within 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100, according to new research led by University of Arizona scientists.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (30) | comments 42 | with audio podcast

PET scans reveal estrogen-producing hotspots in human brain

A study at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has demonstrated that a molecule "tagged" with a radioactive form of carbon can be used to image aromatase, an enzyme responsible for ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Finland aims to build first ever green highway

Finland wants to build the world's first "green highway," with service stations offering charging points for electric cars and pumps filled with local biofuels, the project manager said Thursday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Earth's climate future may be etched in Greenland bedrock

Scientists hit Greenland bedrock this week after five years of drilling through 2.5 kilometres (1.6-mile) of solid ice, a 14-nation consortium announced Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 28, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (24) | comments 50

Antarctic ice loss vaster, faster than thought: study

The East Antarctic icesheet, once seen as largely unaffected by global warming, has lost billions of tonnes of ice since 2006 and could boost sea levels in the future, according to a new study.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (54) | comments 45

Who will pick up the bill? Possible job cuts and revenue loss as a result of ocean acidification

Ocean acidification, a direct result of increased CO2 emission, is set to change the Earth's marine ecosystems forever and may have a direct impact on our economy, resulting in substantial revenue declines and job losses.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (39) | comments 4

Cuts in greenhouse gas emissions would save Arctic ice, reduce sea level rise

The threat of global warming can still be greatly diminished if nations cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases by 70 percent this century, according to a new analysis. While global temperatures would ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (90) | comments 15

Impact of sea-level rise on atmospheric CO2 concentrations

(PhysOrg.com) -- The rise in sea level since the last ice age has prevented us from feeling the full impact of man-made global warming. The sea level rise has resulted in more harmful greenhouse gases being absorbed by the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (14) | comments 22