News tagged with greenhouse gasses
Scientists take off on historic mission to measure greenhouse gases that have an impact on climate
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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HIAPER, one of the nation's most advanced research aircraft, is scheduled to embark on an historic mission spanning the globe from the Arctic to the Antarctic.
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Underwater animals fart greenhouse gas: study
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Humans and farm animals were known to emit harmful greenhouse gases through digestion, but German researchers said Tuesday that aquatic worms and bugs are also culprits, releasing laughing gas.
Storage of greenhouse gasses in Siberian peat moor
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Jan 29, 2007 |
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Wet peat moorlands form a sustainable storage place for the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide but are also a source of the much stronger greenhouse gas methane. According to Dutch researcher Wiebe Borren, peat moorlands will ...
The greenhouse gas that saved the world
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Aug 18, 2009 |
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When Planet Earth was just cooling down from its fiery creation, the sun was faint and young. So faint that it should not have been able to keep the oceans of earth from freezing. But fortunately for the creation of life, ...
Stronger evidence for human origin of global warming
Jul 30, 2007 |
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A recent statistical analysis strengthens evidence that human activities are causing world temperatures to rise. Most climate change scientists model Earth systems from the ground up, attempting to account for all climate ...
Physicists work to understand atomic collisions important to ultracold quantum gasses
Sep 30, 2009 |
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A Kansas State University physicist is continuing his study of atomic collisions with the help of a National Science Foundation grant awarded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Changing smell of plants announces fungus attack
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tomato plants under attack from the Botrytis fungus give off an aromatic substance that can be measured in greenhouses. This is the result of research performed by Roel Jansen with which he ...
Calif. board postpones decision on pollution tax
Jun 26, 2009 |
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(AP) -- California regulators on Thursday delayed a decision on whether to implement the nation's first statewide carbon fee on utilities, oil refineries and other polluting industries.
Earth lightens up
May 05, 2005 |
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After 30 years of dimming, the planet's surface is brightening, an international collaboration concludes this week in Science magazine Earth's surface has been getting brighter for more than a decade, a reversal from a dim ...
Toward the design of greener consumer products
Sep 16, 2009 |
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So you're a manufacturer about to introduce a new consumer product to the marketplace. Will that product or the manufacture of the product contribute to global warming through the greenhouse effect?
Got gas? Study to determine cows' greenhouse gas emissions
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Any calculation of the carbon footprint of a gallon of milk needs to include fuel used by tractors and trucks, as well as electricity consumed by milking machines and refrigerators. But how much gas is coming ...
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