News tagged with global carbon cycle
New NIST database on gas hydrates to aid energy and climate research
Oct 07, 2009 |
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a free, online collection of data on the properties of gas hydrates, naturally occurring crystalline materials that are a potential energy resource and also ...
Plants Save the Earth from an Icy Doom (w/ Podcast)
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Jul 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fifty million years ago, the North and South Poles were ice-free and crocodiles roamed the Arctic. Since then, a long-term decrease in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has cooled the Earth. ...
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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. ...
Emissions irrelevant to future climate change?
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Climate change and the carbon emissions seem inextricably linked. However, new research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Carbon Balance and Management suggests that this may not always hold true, although it may ...
Global monsoon drives long-term carbon cycles in the ocean
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May 08, 2009 |
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Monsoon is a global system, and many arrays of evidence indicate that it drives long-term cyclicity of the carbon reservoir in the global ocean. The new view is introduced in a substantial paper in Issue 7 (April 2009) of ...
New approach to measuring carbon in forests
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Mar 26, 2008 |
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CSIRO is collaborating in a NASA-funded project, using a CSIRO-designed instrument, to help develop new methods of measuring forest carbon stores on a large scale.
Rivers are carbon processors, not inert pipelines
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Microorganisms in rivers and streams play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle that has not previously been considered. Freshwater ecologist Dr. Tom Battin, of the University of Vienna, told a COST ESF Frontiers of Science ...
Ozone hole reduces atmospheric CO2 uptake in the Southern Ocean
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Jun 24, 2009 |
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Does ozone have an impact on the ocean's role as a "carbon sink"? Yes, according to researchers from France. Using original simulations, they have demonstrated that the hole in the ozone layer reduces atmospheric carbon uptake ...
Scientists say climate change mitigation strategies ignore carbon cycling processes of inland waters
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Sep 01, 2009 |
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In the paper, The Boundless Carbon Cycle, published in the September issue of Nature Geoscience, scientists from the University of Vienna, Uppsala University in Sweden, University of Antwerp, and the U.S. based Stroud Water ...
Arctic land and seas account for up to 25 percent of world's carbon sink
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Oct 14, 2009 |
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In a new study in the journal Ecological Monographs, ecologists estimate that Arctic lands and oceans are responsible for up to 25 percent of the global net sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Under curren ...
NASA Mission to Help Unravel Key Carbon, Climate Mysteries
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Jan 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide is in final preparations for a Feb. 23 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Carbon dioxide is the leading ...
Arctic river deltas may hold clues to future global climate
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May 18, 2009 |
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Scientists struggling to understand how Earth's climate will change in the next few decades have neglected a potential treasure trove of information—sediments deposited in the ocean by major Arctic rivers such as the Colville ...
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