Radical new ways of removing CO2 from the atmosphere could prove to be a risky business—according to an environmental scientist at the University of East Anglia.
Environment
Feb 10, 2016
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The number of coal-fired power plants in the pipeline worldwide declined in 2021, according to research released Tuesday, but the fossil fuel most responsible for global warming still generated record CO2 emissions, threatening ...
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Apr 26, 2022
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Carbon dioxide emissions, the main contributor to global warming, are set to rise again in 2014 - reaching a record high of 40 billion tonnes.
Environment
Sep 21, 2014
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Life in the ocean's "twilight zone" could decline dramatically due to climate change, new research suggests. The twilight zone (200m to 1,000m deep) gets very little light but is home to a wide variety of organisms and billions ...
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Apr 27, 2023
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How people grow food and the way we use the land is an important, though often overlooked, contributor to climate change. While most people recognize the role of burning fossil fuels in heating the atmosphere, there has been ...
Environment
Nov 6, 2020
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Without restoration efforts in coastal Louisiana, marshes in the state could lose half of their current ability to store carbon in the soil over a period of 50 years, according to a new paper published in American Geophysical ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 5, 2021
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The Paris Agreement adopted a target for global warming not to exceed 1.5°C. This sets a limit on the additional carbon we can add to the atmosphere—the carbon budget. Only around 17% of the carbon budget is now left. ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2021
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Most of the carbon resulting from wildfires and fossil fuel combustion is rapidly released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now shown that the leftover residue, so-called ...
Environment
Jul 10, 2018
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Deliberately flooding riverbeds left parched by dams has great potential to restore wetlands but may also have a significant unintended consequence: the release of greenhouse gases.
Environment
Jul 8, 2016
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Illinois atmospheric scientist Atul Jain was among the many scientists worldwide who contributed data to the Global Carbon Budget 2017, released Nov. 13. Jain talked about this year's findings with News Bureau physical sciences ...
Environment
Nov 22, 2017
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