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Within the next 90 to 100 years, carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will have to be all phased out, scientists reveal. A temperature rise of only two degrees Celsius would reshape the international map, modifying the borders of all countries that are next to seas and oceans. In order to avoid catastrop... |
18 November 2009
18:51 GMT |
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Some 251.4 million years ago, the Permian Age came to an abrupt end, when a massive extinction event, known among experts as the “Great Dying”, killed off just about everything on the planet, with just a few exceptions. The event marked the beginning of the Triassic Age, and experts have been puzzling ove... |
6 November 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Weather, in the strictest sense of the term, does not exist on Mars. The planet is surrounded by nothing more than an extremely thin atmosphere, which is about one percent as thick as our own. In spite of that, freezing temperatures, clouds, and dust storms like nothing seen on Earth exist there, and all these events... |
5 November 2009
17:41 GMT |
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The American space agency has recently announced the discovery of a second hot gas exoplanet that features organic molecules, the required components for the emergence of life. With the new find, astronomers will be one step closer to determining an accurate characterization of the planets that may, indeed, support l... |
21 October 2009
08:48 GMT |
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New images provided by the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show peculiar, spider-shaped formations on the ground, near the planet's south pole, experts have recently announced. The data was collected using the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the space probe, which is capa... |
1 October 2009
10:53 GMT |
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Although authorities around the world are fighting to reduce carbon emissions, and to switch to greener methods of producing electrical current, it's highly unlikely that this will happen anytime soon. This is one of the main reasons why the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Ronald C. Crane Professor o... |
22 September 2009
03:30 GMT |
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The American space agency NASA started measuring the extent of Arctic ices in 1979, via its satellite program. Since then, it has conducted constant investigations of the North Pole, and has drawn maps of ice extents during every minimum and maximum extent of the ice sheets. Measurements for this year indicate that t... |
18 September 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Since it was shown in chemical experiments that the “primordial soup” could have led to the formation of complex proteins and nucleic acid strands from amino-acids over time, experts have been trying to model this in the laboratory, with various degrees of success. Now, German researchers at the Universit... |
17 September 2009
05:51 GMT |
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In the first large-scale study to ever prove so, experts at the Cardiff University, in the United Kingdom, determined that the decline in CO2 levels in the planet's atmosphere some 34 million years ago led to the formation of the ice caps in Antarctica. Scientists from the University of Bristol and the Texas A&M... |
14 September 2009
04:55 GMT |
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According to a newly released report from the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) released today, September 2nd, it would appear that the current warming trend recorded in the Arctic could have massive repercussions on our planet. The study shows that as much as one quarter of the globe's population could be floode... |
2 September 2009
01:42 GMT |
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In addition to carbon dioxide, the main gas held responsible for global warming, methane, is one of the most potent agents that can bring about climate change. Efforts of reducing emissions exist, but they are insufficient. To make matters worse, it has been recently confirmed that the gas escapes its Arctic sea-bed ... |
18 August 2009
10:33 GMT |
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Jessup, MD-based start-up Vorbeck Materials is planning to begin producing the first graphene-based conductive inks later this year to be used for imprinting RFID antennas on substrates. The new material could also play an important part in pushing forward efforts of creating flexible displays, by favoring the produc... |
6 August 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Other than being outstandingly beautiful and harsh to live in, the Arctic tundra is also one of the largest carbon sinks in the world, beside the oceans. Over millennia, impressive amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) have been trapped by the soils and permafrost in these regions, and have been stored in the frozen ground... |
5 August 2009
01:28 GMT |
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Experts at NASA announced yesterday that they had managed to bring the American-built Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) air scrubber back online on Sunday, after it broke down on Saturday. While engineers back on Earth are still looking for the original source of the glitch, the 13 astronauts aboard the Internat... |
27 July 2009
02:20 GMT |
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Experts from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have recently proposed a new method of separating carbon dioxide from the emission pertaining to fossil fuel-powered plants, which is both more efficient and cleaner than the existing one. The new screening method invo... |
23 July 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Yesterday, Endeavor Astronauts Dave Wolf and Chris Cassidy performed an extra-vehicular activity (EVA) on the International Space Station (ISS), aimed at replacing a few of the laboratory's oldest batteries. NASA planned that four of six packages be removed during the six-hour spacewalk, but that objective was n... |
23 July 2009
03:44 GMT |
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A new study has recently revealed that it may be more constructive to plant trees in the middle of the street using a more widely spaced layout plan than cramming many in the same place. According to the paper, while those plants with some distance between them are very efficient at soaking up carbon dioxide, those t... |
21 July 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Beer is, undoubtedly, one of the most popular beverages in the world, and, as such, it is produced in vast amounts around the globe, from the largest metropolises to the smallest villages. And, in all breweries, the same process is followed, resulting in roughly the same byproducts. Now, a joint study by researchers ... |
10 July 2009
04:59 GMT |
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A new model developed by researchers at the Princeton University holds the promise of being able to fairly distribute the burdens of carbon dioxide cut responsibilities to all nations that will participate at the December United Nations summit, to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Previous proposals have all been rejec... |
7 July 2009
14:41 GMT |
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Experts at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) have recently discovered in a new study that high levels of the dangerous greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2), which is largely blamed for global warming, also cause numerous mutations in fish. Among these, they high... |
26 June 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Gordon Brown, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, has recently proposed the creation of a £60-billion help fund, money that is to be distributed among Third-World nations. The aid would help less developed countries deal with the greenhouse gas emissions cuts proposed by the United Nations, while at the s... |
26 June 2009
14:01 GMT |
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The rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are generally considered to be the main cause of global warming and climate change, with numerous studies linking the two directly. Still, there are those who refuse to listen to reason and science, and who believe that the levels of CO2 in the air are &ld... |
22 June 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Astronomers have known for a long time that the Sun is currently at the middle of its life cycle, having already burnt for more than 4.6 billion years. As a yellow main sequence star, it is expected to live a full life of about 10 billion years, but naturally, during this time, it will evolve. Sadly for Earth, this i... |
13 June 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Taking their commitment on reducing their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions further, as previously stated, seven of the largest airlines in the world, including Air France/KLM and British Airways, have requested that the United Nations set the CO2 targets for the aviation industry soon. Together with the international N... |
9 June 2009
06:24 GMT |
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Ever since Ancient time, when mortar, concrete and cement were not your average commodities in the world, people have employed an old constructions technique that was equally cheap and green. With the use of rammed earth, engineers of old managed to erect impressive structures, ranging from garrisons to churches and ... |
2 June 2009
21:01 GMT |
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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is the generic name given to a variety of technological means through which facilities that burn fossil fuels limit the amount of greenhouse gases they emit into the atmosphere. Ideally, all power plants burning coal, oil or natural gas should have such carbon-trapping devices install... |
29 May 2009
06:36 GMT |
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The UK Government is poised to soon unveil plans that would basically force all citizens to have their homes outfitted with “smart meters,” devices that are able to interfere with the gas and electricity networks and to regulate consumption. The move will reduce the load on power grids during peak periods... |
11 May 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Officials from the large oil company Shell have announced recently that the enterprise believes the best way of getting rid of excess carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is to capture it and store it underground. According to the numbers the representatives have supplied, this step in the technological process, ap... |
8 May 2009
06:55 GMT |
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Over the past few years, engineers and scientists from several universities and research institutions have argued that geoengineering – as in using artificial substances to change natural feats of the oceans, such as the production of plankton, and also to boost the water's ability to store carbon dioxide ... |
7 May 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Geologists at the University of Maryland may have just made one of the most important discoveries to explain the ancient history of our planet, namely what it was that triggered one of the earliest Ice Ages in history. A new scientific research seems to point at the fact that the appearance of oxygen, synthesized by... |
7 May 2009
10:24 GMT |
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The East African Rift, located in the southeastern part of the continent, is one of the most active tectonic regions on Earth, not necessarily in terms of earthquakes, but of the amount of movement that is recorded underneath the Earth's crust. In a few million years, the entire rift will be flooded, and a new s... |
7 May 2009
06:31 GMT |
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Recognizing ocean acidification as one of the most severe issues that will confront the world in years to come, the United Kingdom has recently approved the investment of £11 million ($16 million) into a five-year scientific study of the phenomenon. Current wisdom has it that the level of carbon dioxide in the ... |
28 April 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Some 12,000 years ago, a massive methane emission was recorded on our planet, but its source has still remained a mystery to this day. Some researchers have argued that the release of sea floor hydrate deposits, as in mostly methane, could have had something to do with it, but a recent analysis of the largest sample ... |
25 April 2009
06:39 GMT |
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California took a giant leap forward on Thursday, when it became the first state in the world to impose regulations on gasoline and other fuels, with the purpose of reducing the environmental impact that they had. The move will force the market to look for cleaner alternatives, and has the potential to encourage inno... |
24 April 2009
09:30 GMT |
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According to a new policy brief, released only recently by climate experts at the Carnegie Mellon university, cap-and-trade systems alone will not be sufficient in ensuring that the United States lower their carbon dioxide (CO2) emission levels by 50 to 80 percent until 2050. This goal has been expressed by the White... |
14 April 2009
09:10 GMT |
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The Antarctic Geological Drilling project, also known as Andrill, is one of the most ambitious projects on the Southern Continent to date, seeking to unravel the mystery of how the place looked like millions of years ago. The final goal of the research is to determine whether the melting we are experiencing at this p... |
13 April 2009
06:34 GMT |
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The latest international climate talks, held in Bonn, Germany, as a preview to the December UN summit in Copenhagen, did nothing to solve any actual issue related to the environment, but rather evidenced the fact that there was a widening conflict between developed and developing nations, when it came to deciding the... |
9 April 2009
08:26 GMT |
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Scientists are currently working on two fronts to discover a way of producing vast amounts of non-polluting electricity from special kinds of ice, which are readily available in many parts of the world. If the experts identify the correct types of the stuff, then they could literally burn it, to release the methane t... |
27 March 2009
07:20 GMT |
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According to a nation-wide poll conducted last autumn, more than 90 percent of all American citizens believe that the US should act to stop the effects of climate change, and should also employ measures to curb global warming. The respondents believed that the government should become engaged in such efforts even des... |
19 March 2009
07:16 GMT |
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In the South American Andes, it appears that volcanoes hold numerous surprises for researchers seeking unusual life forms, as evidenced by the fact that they have only recently discovered microbial colonies atop the 19,850-foot (6050-meter)-high Socompa volcano, located between Argentina and Chile. It would appear, t... |
4 March 2009
02:49 GMT |
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While in Washington on Monday for talks over the increasing use of clean energy, Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice announced that the country was ready and willing to be part of a larger, North American fuel-efficiency standard, alongside the United States. The regulation is necessary in order to drastically... |
3 March 2009
10:06 GMT |
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Fox company executives will announce today that the popular show “24” will be the first television series to turn completely carbon-neutral. The decision comes after officials at the network analyzed scenes involving car chases and explosions, and deemed that the amount of greenhouse gases they emitted wa... |
2 March 2009
05:56 GMT |
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Under normal conditions, forests around the world are able to absorb approximately 20 percent of all carbon dioxide emitted by humans from burning fossil fuels, such as oil, coal and natural gas. This amounts to a massive 4.8 billion tonnes of CO2 each year, an extremely large quantity that would otherwise be left i... |
19 February 2009
16:01 GMT |
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China announced on Thursday that its efforts of combating global warming and climate change would not be weakened by the global financial crisis, and that the country would respect its promise of employing measures that were bound to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and methane the Asian nations pumped into the at... |
19 February 2009
05:16 GMT |
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Among the most important sources of nitrous oxide (N2O) today, forests and intensely-managed farmlands take the top. They emit huge quantities of the gas, which doesn't make people laugh, but rather cry, on account of the fact that it's one of the most dangerous greenhouse gases being emitted globally. Over... |
16 February 2009
07:09 GMT |
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A new computer model shows that droughts triggered by global warming will in the future affect the Amazon so hard, that it could cause a widespread drought, which will in turn have devastating consequences on the world. If the rain forest in the Amazon region burns, then the rain patterns throughout the globe will ch... |
10 February 2009
06:55 GMT |
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University of Copenhagen scientists, led by Gary Shaffer, attempted to answer the very serious question raised by increased global pollution – what will become of the planet in the long run? In an attempt to provide the best answer, the team used the most up-to-date computer models to predict changes in our pla... |
30 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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According to a new report presented by researchers on Wednesday, the average American has won an additional 21 weeks of life following pollution-reducing measures employed over the course of the past two decades. Releasing small particles from exhaust pipes or smoke stacks has been forbidden, which means that less su... |
23 January 2009
05:07 GMT |
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The modified Gulfstream V aircraft employed by Harvard University will fly all around the world, from the North to the South Pole, and will accurately record various carbon dioxide (CO2) readings along the way, in an attempt to create the most comprehensive picture of the circuit of carbon in nature to date. The thre... |
15 January 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Due to extensive periods of poor management, Canadian forests have recently crossed a very dangerous line, when they started emitting more carbon dioxide than they stored. The main culprits for this situation are the pine beetle, which is already responsible for decimating tens of thousands of square miles of trees t... |
10 January 2009
03:55 GMT |
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