News tagged with fossil fuel emissions
New proxy reveals how humans have disrupted the nitrogen cycle
Jun 04, 2009 |
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More and more, scientists are getting a better grip on the nitrogen cycle. They are learning about sources of nitrogen and how this element changes as it loops from the nonliving, such as the atmosphere, soil ...
Avoiding the hothouse and the icehouse
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2009 |
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By controlling emissions of fossil fuels we may be able to greatly delay the start of the next ice age, new research from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen concludes. The results have been ...
Impact of sea-level rise on atmospheric CO2 concentrations
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The rise in sea level since the last ice age has prevented us from feeling the full impact of man-made global warming. The sea level rise has resulted in more harmful greenhouse gases being absorbed by the ...
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Emissions rising faster this decade than last
Oct 02, 2008 |
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The latest figures on the global carbon budget to be released in Washington and Paris indicate a four-fold increase in growth rate of human-generated carbon dioxide emissions since 2000.
Emissions rising faster this decade than last
Sep 26, 2008 |
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The latest figures on the global carbon budget to be released in Washington and Paris today indicate a four-fold increase in growth rate of human-generated carbon dioxide emissions since 2000.
Carbon dioxide map of US released on Google Earth
Feb 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Interactive maps that detail carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are now available on the popular Google Earth platform. The maps, funded by NASA and the U.S. Department of ...
All the carbon counts
May 28, 2009 |
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Cutting down forests for agriculture vents excess carbon dioxide into the air just as industrial activities and the burning of fossil fuels do. But whether policies to stabilize greenhouse gases in the atmosphere ...
New tool gets handle on cropland CO2 emissions
Feb 09, 2009 |
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For the first time, farmers have data that tracks at the county level on-site and off-site energy use and carbon dioxide emissions associated with growing crops in the United States.
Fossil fuel CO2 emissions up by 29 percent since 2000
Nov 17, 2009 |
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The strongest evidence yet that the rise in atmospheric CO2 emissions continues to outstrip the ability of the world's natural 'sinks' to absorb carbon is published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. ...
Researchers define challenging carbon-emissions targets for U.S. auto industry
Jan 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- U.S. automakers must achieve an eightfold reduction in automobile-related carbon emissions to help stabilize the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere by 2050, according ...
Agricultural soil erosion is not adding to global warming
Oct 26, 2007 |
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Agricultural soil erosion is not a source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, according to research published online today (October 25) in the journal Science. The study was carried out by an international team of resear ...
Sweden unveils 'ambitious' clean energy strategy
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Sweden's government on Wednesday presented what it described as Europe's "most ambitious" strategy to improve energy efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Intensive land management leaves Europe without carbon sinks
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 23, 2009 |
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A new calculation of Europe's greenhouse gas balance shows that emissions of methane and nitrous oxide tip the balance and eliminate Europe's terrestrial sink of greenhouse gases.
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