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Action needed now for Minnesota to reach goals in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2015

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 2.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The state of Minnesota must act now if it wants to reach its Minnesota Next Generation Energy Act goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2015, according to a team of University of Minnesota transportation ...





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Health care accounts for 8 percent of US carbon footprint

Medicine & Health / Health

created 3 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The American health care sector accounts for nearly a tenth of the country's carbon dioxide emissions, according to a first-of-its-kind calculation of health care's carbon footprint.


The politics of climate fixes

The politics of climate fixes

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (13) | comments 7

In the middle of a day filled with a stream of information-packed PowerPoint displays and alarming projections of what the future holds for our planet and our civilization, Judith Layzer’s talk was something ...


Reducing Agriculture's Climate Change Footprint

Reducing Agriculture's Climate Change Footprint

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Curbing greenhouse gas emissions from cultivated fields may require going beyond cutting back on nitrogen fertilizer and changing crop rotation cycles, according to research by Agricultural ...


Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.


Interactions with Aerosols Boost Warming Potential of Some Gases

Interactions with Aerosols Boost Warming Potential of Some Gases

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, climate scientists have worked to identify and measure key substances -- notably greenhouse gases and aerosol particles -- that affect Earth’s climate. And they’ve been aided ...


Obama team: US needs bill to lead in clean energy (AP)

Obama team: US needs bill to lead in clean energy

Technology / Energy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Obama administration warned on Tuesday that the U.S. could slip further behind China and other countries in clean energy development if Congress fails to pass climate legislation, as early signs ...


Facebook for scientists: Map your expertise

Facebook for scientists: Map your expertise

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University has received more than $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to collaborate on a $12.2 million, seven-university project designed to network researchers around ...


Poll: US belief in global warming is cooling (AP)

Poll: US belief in global warming is cooling

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 61

(AP) -- Americans seem to be cooling toward global warming.


Professor calculates a cooler planet

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some people fight global warming by driving fuel-efficient cars. Others weatherproof their houses or plant trees. Princeton's René Carmona does math. As the United States and other countries around ...


Climate concerns turn city's smell into cash cow (AP)

Climate concerns turn city's smell into cash cow

Technology / Energy

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- The smell of manure hangs over Greeley as it has for half a century. These days it's more than just a potent reminder of the region's agricultural roots and the hundreds of thousands of cattle raised ...



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