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Bad sign for global warming: Thawing permafrost holds vast carbon pool
Sep 03, 2008 |
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Permafrost blanketing the northern hemisphere contains more than twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, making it a potentially mammoth contributor to global climate change depending on how quickly it thaws.
90 billion tons of microbial organisms live in the deep biosphere
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Jul 21, 2008 |
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Biogeoscientists show evidence of 90 billion tons of microbial organisms—expressed in terms of carbon mass—living in the deep biosphere, in a research article published online by Nature, July 20, 2008. This t ...
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Britons waste $40 billion in food annually
Mar 03, 2008 |
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Britain is throwing away nearly half of all the food it produces, costing the nation an estimated $40 billion a year, it was reported Sunday.
Japan sends first cargo spacecraft to ISS
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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Japan early Friday launched its first cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station, aiming for a share of space transport after the retirement of the US space shuttle fleet next year.
Controversial new climate change results
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of CO2 has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of CO2 having risen from about 2 billion ...
Study: Arctic soil carbon underestimated
Dec 06, 2005 |
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University of Washington researchers say scientists studying climate warming might be underestimating the amount of soil carbon in the high Arctic.
Rise in atmospheric CO2 accelerates as economy grows, natural carbon sinks weaken
Oct 22, 2007 |
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Human activities are releasing carbon dioxide faster than ever, while the natural processes that normally slow its build up in the atmosphere appear to be weakening. These conclusions are drawn in a new study in the early ...
First-ever 'State of the Carbon Cycle Report' finds troubling imbalance
Nov 14, 2007 |
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The first “State of the Carbon Cycle Report” for North America, released online this week by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, finds the continent’s carbon budget increasingly overwhelmed by human-caused emissions. ...
Paying to save tropical forests could be a way to reduce global carbon emissions
Jul 23, 2008 |
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Wealthy nations willing to collectively spend about $1 billion annually could prevent the emission of roughly half a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year for the next 25 years, new research suggests.
Australia leads CO2 capturing effort
Oct 11, 2007 |
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Australia is trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by capturing carbon dioxide and storing it in underground reservoirs.
China: Millions of coastal acres polluted
Oct 13, 2006 |
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China's State Oceanic Administration said pollution contaminated about 34.5 million acres -- about 5 percent -- of China's coastal areas.
Antarctic Ice Loss
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Jan 13, 2008 |
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Increasing amounts of ice mass have been lost from West Antarctica and the Antarctic peninsula over the past ten years, according to research from the University of Bristol and published online this week in ...
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