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18/5/2013
Efforts to thoroughly study the role that plants play in
climate change mitigation are increasing. Most researchers focus on the promise of large, leafy forest trees to help remove carbon from the atmosphere; for example Lal (1998) in India, Chen ...
16/5/2013
Palm oil touches our lives every time we take a trip to the supermarket. Palm oil and its derivatives are used in a ubiquitous array of packaged foods, including ice cream, cookies, crackers, chocolate products, cereals, breakfast bars, cake ...
16/5/2013
When the history of humanity’s struggle to combat
climate change is written, few characters will play as prominent a role as Charles David Keeling. A geochemist, Keeling developed an accurate method of measuring CO2 in the atmosphere, and in 1958 ...
14/5/2013
It was one of those days when we felt like change was in the air – even if it was a small victory it was an important one.
Yesterday, we confirmed that notorious palm oil producer and forest destroyer, Duta Palma, has (finally) been ...
13/5/2013
Deforestation may significantly decrease the hydroelectric potential of tropical rainforest regions, warns a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
The study, led by Claudia M. Stickler at the ...
13/5/2013
Just two seasons exist here: the rainy and the dry. At the best of times, the temperamental rains come for three or four months and turn dusty plains into green pastures,
forests and fields.
But in the late 1960s, the rains came later ...
13/5/2013
The loss of tropical rain
forests is likely to reduce the energy output of hydroelectric projects in countries like Brazil that are investing billions of dollars to create power to support economic growth. That is the conclusion of a ...
12/5/2013
In no other industry today is it more obvious to see the culmination of affects of social, political, economic, and ecological instability than in the global production of food. As a defining characteristic of civilization itself, it is no wonder ...
12/5/2013
Climate change could lead to the widespread loss of common plants and animals around the world, according to a new study released Sunday in the journal Nature
Climate Change.
The study's authors looked at 50,000 common species. They ...
12/5/2013
A ban on the clearing of tropical
forests in Indonesia is on the verge of being extended in a historic deal that could protect some of the world's most threatened habitats.
Indonesia is home to about a third of the world's remaining ...
12/5/2013
Trees may provide the Earth with a little shade from global warming -- indirectly. European and Canadian researchers report that they have found what engineers like to call a negative feedback loop above the
forests of Europe and North ...
12/5/2013
Lake sediments recorded the
climate of the Arctic during the last period when CO2 levels were as high as today
The future of a globally warmed world has been revealed in a remote meteorite crater in Siberia, where lake sediments recorded ...
12/5/2013
Unless people dramatically cut the amount of carbon dioxide they're putting into the air and water through industry, farming, landfills and fossil fuel consumption, Maine's largest manufacturing industry will be damaged in ways scientists can ...
11/5/2013
The old saying that ''what goes up must come down'' doesn't apply to carbon dioxide pollution in the air, which just hit an unnerving milestone.
The chief greenhouse gas was measured Thursday at 400 parts per million in Hawaii, a ...
11/5/2013
For the first time since homo sapiens evolved, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have struck 400 parts per million (ppm) due to burning fossil fuels. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that ...
11/5/2013
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has breached the symbolically important level of 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in 5 million years after rising at its fastest rate since records began.
Average daily ...
10/5/2013
Yesterday, organizations and citizens from across Michigan came together for a day of action in opposition to the bi-annual auction of publicly-owned mineral rights to oil and natural gas companies for fracking.
Last October, the ...
10/5/2013
On May 2, after nightfall shut down photosynthesis for the day in Hawaii, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere touched 400 parts-per-million there for the first time in at least 800,000 years. Near the summit of volcanic Mauna Loa--where a ...
9/5/2013
Prince Charles has attacked corporate lobbyists and
climate change sceptics for turning the Earth into a "dying patient", making his most outspoken criticism yet of the world's failure to tackle global warming just when the heir to the throne is ...
9/5/2013
Speaking at a conference for scientists at St James' Palace in London, Prince Charles said by ignoring
climate change we were turning the earth into a 'dying patient,' and called for urgent action.
He said: "If we see our
forests and the ...
9/5/2013
The Prince of Wales has criticised "corporate lobbyists" and
climate change sceptics for turning the earth into a "dying patient", in his most outspoken attack yet on the world's failure to tackle global warming.
He attacked businesses ...
9/5/2013
The Lois Lane trail meanders along the high dunes that protect this little beach town. It makes it easy for walkers along the sand and gravel path to forget just how close to the ocean they really are -- were it not for the swooshing sound of ...
8/5/2013
The hula-hoop first caught on in the US state of California, as did crack cocaine. For better or worse, that's where trends originate before they sweep the nation and, often, the world. So it's apropos that California is closely engaging with the ...
6/5/2013
For a
climate organizer, the ongoing British Columbia election campaign has been a rare treat. For the first time in a very long time,
climate change and fossil fuels are taking centre stage in an election campaign.
The past two federal ...
6/5/2013
Can we all agree that the current energy economy is fundamentally toxic to nature and people? Can we agree that there is no more important task than building a new energy economy, one that supports flourishing human and natural communities? Can ...