Every year, humans advance climate change and global warming - and quite likely our own eventual extinction - by injecting about 30 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Materials Science
Aug 25, 2016
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A new study from University of Michigan researchers challenges the widely held assumption that biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are inherently carbon neutral.
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2016
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Washington State University researchers have found that greenhouse-gas emissions from lakes and inland waterways may be as much as 45 percent greater than previously thought.
Environment
May 24, 2016
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The Obama administration issued a final rule Thursday to sharply cut methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas production, a key part of a push by President Barack Obama to reduce methane emissions by nearly half over the next ...
Environment
May 12, 2016
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Coal burning, despite recent signs of having peaked in China and pledges made at the Paris Climate talks in December, remains the primary source of electric power in Asia. In both China and India, it's responsible for the ...
Environment
Apr 29, 2016
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To avoid multiple climate tipping points, policy makers need to act now to stop global CO2 emissions by 2050 and meet the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, a new study ...
Environment
Mar 21, 2016
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Vegetation will release far less extra carbon dioxide in a warming world than previously assumed, giving humans a bit more room in the fight against climate change, scientists reported Wednesday in Nature.
Environment
Mar 16, 2016
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(Phys.org)—Two groups of researchers, one studying forests in Europe the other forests around the world, have found that forest management may not be the answer to slowing global warming that some had hoped, and that forests ...
Penn State researcher Chunshan Song has a plan to address one of the most important issues facing the world today—reducing greenhouse gas emissions to curb the negative impacts of climate change.
Materials Science
Feb 5, 2016
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Do you feel the heat? According to NASA and NOAA, 2014 was the hottest year since 1880 and the 10 warmest years in the instrumental record have occurred since 1998. The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) of ...
Biotechnology
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