A new IIASA-led study shows that coordinated international action on energy-efficient, climate-friendly cooling could avoid as much as 600 billion tons CO2 equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions in this century.
Environment
Oct 6, 2020
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Enteroviruses and other pathogenic viruses that make their way into surface waters can be inactivated by heat, sunshine and other microbes, thereby reducing their ability to spread disease. But researchers report in ACS' ...
Environment
Sep 2, 2020
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Today, the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) at the University of Maryland published new research in Nature Communications providing insight into how large-scale deforestation could impact global food ...
Environment
Apr 1, 2015
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Libya hasn't been terribly hospitable for scientific research lately.
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 9, 2015
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(Phys.org) —In the global scheme of things, clouds are the small stuff. And clouds' inner workings are even smaller. Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that neglecting the small stuff has consequences ...
Earth Sciences
May 30, 2014
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The next time your throat is as dry as a bone and the Sun is beating down, take a glass of clean, cool water.
Environment
May 13, 2014
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Carbon dioxide is not the only problem we must address if we are to understand and solve the problem of climate change. According to research published this month in the International Journal of Global Warming, we as yet ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 1, 2012
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Scientists have long debated about the impact on global climate of water evaporated from vegetation. New research from Carnegie's Global Ecology department concludes that evaporated water helps cool the earth as a whole, ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 14, 2011
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An international team of researchers has studied the coralline algae fossils that lived on the last coral reefs of the Mediterranean Sea between 7.24 and 5.3 million years ago. Mediterranean algae and coral reefs began to ...
Archaeology
Jul 7, 2009
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In 2015, most countries, including Canada, signed on to the Paris Climate Agreement which set the objective of "holding the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing ...
Environment
Jan 12, 2024
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