News tagged with climate impact
Costs of adapting to climate change significantly underestimated
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Scientists led by a former co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will warn today that the UN negotiations aimed at tackling climate change are based on substantial underestimates of what ...
Geoengineering climate requires more research, cautious consideration, appropriate restrictions
Jul 21, 2009 |
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deliberately manipulating physical, chemical, or biological aspects of the Earth system to confront climate change - could contribute to a comprehensive risk management strategy to slow climate change but could also create ...
Better water use could reduce future food crises
May 05, 2009 |
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If the overall water resources in river basins were acknowledged and managed better, future food crises could be significantly reduced, say researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, Stockholm Environment ...
EPA: ethanol crops displaces climate-friendly ones
May 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency says that corn ethanol - as made today - wouldn't meet a congressional requirement that ethanol produce 20 percent less greenhouse gas than gasoline. But the agency said it is ...
To meet climate goal, only quarter of fossil fuels can be used: study
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Meeting a widely-supported goal to tackle global warming means that humanity will be able to burn less than a quarter of the proven reserves of fossil fuels by 2050, a study released on Wednesday said.
