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Ironically, the constant rise of temperature in the atmosphere affects even those animals and plants that are already used to heat. They are forced to relocate northwards, following their ever-shrinking habitats, or move to higher elevations, in search of the temperatures they are adapted to. Some species may lose th... |
10 October 2008
11:00 GMT |
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The threat that melting glaciers pose is extremely high. If they collapse, the sea levels could rise several feet worldwide, leading to extensive flooding and the alternation of known shore lines. This means that cities such as New York, Tokyo and Bombay could be partially or totally flooded and millions of human liv... |
10 October 2008
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Researchers collecting soil samples from several sites in Alaska discovered that a layer of permafrost, buried at a depth of about one meter (3 feet), is mostly made up of organic remains that have great carbon-emitting potential. Professor Chien-Lu Ping, leader of this study, said that this layer could represent a s... |
9 October 2008
08:50 GMT |
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In recent years, in an attempt to fight global warming, many authorities and organizations have begun informing the public about the small steps they could take to improve the quality of the environment and the state of our atmosphere, which is severely affected by CO2 emissions, Freon gases and the likes. For s... |
2 October 2008
05:04 GMT |
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Instead of the expected effect of reducing overall warmth, recent reports indicate that the decrease of the solar radiation received by Earth actually raises the level of global warming. All of us, especially people in regions with a temperate climate, have felt the changes in the weather in the past years. It ... |
11 September 2008
07:29 GMT |
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Global warming and its implications have been hot topics in people's discussions for a couple of years now. "Global warming is caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases that are emitted primarily by the burning of fossil fuels and the clearing of forests. These gases remain in our atmos... |
23 July 2008
10:35 GMT |
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As if global warming weren't bad enough as it is, researchers now say that the extra amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere will strike us in one of the most painful ways possible: kidney stones. And this time it's not selective and it's most certain that some of the leaders of the G8 stat... |
15 July 2008
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Well, it doesn't really look like the car of my dreams, but it does bear some resemblance to the flying cars from 'The Jetsons', and best of all, it can run more than 100 kilometers with only one liter of fuel. Too bad it doesn't fly, though. Volkswagen's One Litre is currently the most econo... |
14 July 2008
10:31 GMT |
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The attention shifts again from the Arctic ice sheet to Antarctica as the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite showed how over the past month or so, a large ice sheet stretching between the Charcot and Latady Islands in the Antarctic Peninsula, known as the Wilkins Ice Shelf, started to break up again, for ... |
11 July 2008
09:52 GMT |
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Solar cells are currently viewed as the star of alternative energy sources, being able to produce electric energy without the disadvantage of releasing greenhouse gases and other pollutants into the Earth's atmosphere as burning fossil fuels does. Sunlight provides an incredible amount of energy per square meter... |
11 July 2008
02:56 GMT |
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You can't blame global warming on maritime vessels alone but they are most certainly responsible for quite a large chunk of the total amount of greenhouse gases and soot emitted into Earth's atmosphere every year. Tugboats were recently found to emit more soot than any commercial vessel in relation to the c... |
10 July 2008
07:10 GMT |
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A new study conducted between 1998 and 2006 indicates that the eruption patterns of geysers in the Yellowstone National Park, US are slowing down and could even stop as a result of global warming. Temperature readings performed on five of the geysers in the famous national park show that two of the best known of them... |
10 July 2008
04:46 GMT |
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Carbon dioxide is a potent greenhouse gas, apparently responsible for the climate change effects that have started to become even more obvious in the last decades or so. We could say that we've learned our lesson but in fact, we haven't really, since more than 70 percent of the world's energy output is... |
8 July 2008
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There is a common belief, largely fueled by multiple studies related to climate change and global warming, that Greenland's glaciers are slipping towards the ocean at even faster rates than previously thought. A newly published paper however shows that for the last 17 years or so, Greenland's ice sheet has ... |
4 July 2008
04:56 GMT |
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Fossil fuel reserves, petrol in special, are becoming increasingly scarce around the world with rapid economical development of poor countries, which greatly influences petrol prices in areas all over the world. Not only that, but burning fossil fuel increases the pollution of the planet, thus accelerating the climat... |
29 May 2008
08:44 GMT |
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Think of a conventional wind turbine. You will most likely imagine a giant platform towering several tens of meters in the air on which a 15 meter long blade spins wildly. It doesn't seem to be very practical, does it? That's because it's not. The solution may be in scalable wind turbine designs, which... |
27 May 2008
04:41 GMT |
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A new study claims that if climate change continues at this rate, then by 2080 areas such as the Thames Valley, some areas in Hampshire and the Severn valley would ultimately become too hot to be able to continue wine production. The study was published today in a book written by Emeritus Professor Richard Selley fro... |
26 May 2008
10:09 GMT |
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Well, the global warming seems to have brought us enough bad news in the past decades, so scientists think it's finally time to release some good news. Contrary to the common belief that global warming would result in an increase in hurricane rates, a computer model simulated by the US National Oceanic and Atmos... |
19 May 2008
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Most nitrogen pollutants released by humans into the Earth's atmosphere end up in the ocean, where they act as fertilizers and increase the production of marine plant life. This in turn determines a high absorption of carbon dioxide into oceanic sinkhole, according to a study carried out by Robert Duce, Atmosphe... |
16 May 2008
06:52 GMT |
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It is most certain that Earth's clime took a severe turn towards global warming ever since the Industrial Revolution began. Greenhouse gas concentrations have been rising steadily since, but one cannot stop wondering what the Sun's part is in all this. How does the Sun itself affect the clime of our planet?... |
9 May 2008
06:46 GMT |
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Not long ago, the world was dreaming of clean electric energy generated with the nuclear power plants, but you can't have nuclear power plants without nuclear fuel, can you? We're in the 21st century and we're pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than ever, despite of all the international a... |
22 April 2008
10:49 GMT |
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The Australian National University is making an appeal to the inhabitants of all cities across Australia to turn off all lights this Saturday, between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., in order to raise the awareness of the link between the energy consumption around the world and global warming effects. Amateur astronomers will hav... |
26 March 2008
06:49 GMT |
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There have been some voices lately blaming global warming on the increased solar activity, however this claim is mostly based on pure speculation rather than scientific analysis, says a recent study verifying the role of the Sun in the current climatic changes which take place all over the world. Computer simulations... |
13 March 2008
12:12 GMT |
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The last lunar eclipse that took place on February 20th-21st, ranking 3 on the brightness scale of lunar eclipses which ranges from 0 to 4, seems to confirm that Earth's atmosphere contains light-blocking volcanic ash that could contribute to the acceleration of global warming on our planet. During the span of t... |
3 March 2008
02:43 GMT |
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A US vehicle manufacturing company to mass produce a fully electrical car? Is it too good to be true, or is the US finally starting to turn around and cut its massive contribution to the greenhouse effect? Believe it or not, General Motors - famous for producing petrol thirsty cars - has recently revealed the concept... |
27 February 2008
10:20 GMT |
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Hybrid electric vehicles present us with a partial solution to alternative renewable energy production, but the problem is that they still run mostly on gasoline fuel and, while some see them as a viable technology for the future, others argue that it is just a cover to bring more money into the pockets of the car ma... |
8 February 2008
06:22 GMT |
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It has been often implied, in the last decades, that Mars must have been warmer in its past, and was able to sustain temperatures well above the water's freezing point, in order to account for the incontestable evidence that suggests the presence of liquid water on its surface in the past. On Earth, carbon dioxi... |
21 December 2007
05:04 GMT |
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They should really get this right once and for all. Is global warming triggered by the large emission of greenhouse gases by man or not? According to a handful of scientists in the U.S., mankind cannot be held responsible for the global warming effect currently observed on Earth. Strangely enough the American experts... |
17 December 2007
05:01 GMT |
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Scientists say it did, and not once but many times, as global warming determined vast and rapid changes in clime conditions during greenhouse gas emissions resulted form the burning of fossil fuel. However, at the same time, they argue that it is not too late to reverse the process before it causes massive damage to ... |
15 December 2007
06:58 GMT |
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It seems that the Arctic ice masses are melting at incredible speeds lately, as this year, scientists recorded the largest quantity of ice melting in history. With the help of measurement made over the last five years, they were able to determine that more than half of the Arctic ice has been melting in the meantime.... |
13 December 2007
09:20 GMT |
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The basic principle of this idea is somehow similar to that of the water electrolysis method, meaning partly energizing the atoms of the two chemical elements until they break up to form oxygen and carbon monoxide, which can be used to make hydrogen fuel; or as building blocks in order to synthesize a flammable liqui... |
10 December 2007
07:55 GMT |
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The possibility of building such a large project is now brought into discussion by Roelof Dirk Schuiling of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in the hope that it would solve the energy related problems of millions of people in the Middle East, which could release some of the tensions related to oil supplies thro... |
6 December 2007
05:23 GMT |
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Usually, billboards take high amounts of energy from the power grid in order to light up, especially during night time. However, this is about to change, as an electricity supplier from California has installed the first electric energy generating billboard in the U.S. This device produces energy with the help of 20 ... |
5 December 2007
09:44 GMT |
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As a result of global warming, due to large quantities of greenhouse gases being dumped every year in the Earth's atmosphere, researchers are constantly developing new techniques and technologies to pull the excess carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.The carbon dioxide gas is only one... |
21 November 2007
10:04 GMT |
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The U.S. emits about one quarter of the total greenhouse gas emissions in the world, which pretty much makes it the biggest pollutant. About 85 percent of the total emissions in North America come from the U.S., 9 percent from Canada, and 3 percent from Mexico. Studies show that in the next 50 years, the gas emission... |
14 November 2007
05:08 GMT |
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The greenhouse effect which triggers global warming, causing the sea level to grow as the ice at the poles melts more and more each day, could pose a serious threat to the coastal communities which could lose up to 50 percent of their fresh water supplies than previously thought. Using simulations hydrologists at the... |
7 November 2007
09:58 GMT |
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Global warming is triggered mostly by greenhouse gases, which trap the infrared light responsible for heat, between the layer of atmosphere situated between the ground and the lower part of the clouds, which determines a heating process of the whole Earth. It is generally believed that at the rate we are dispersing g... |
5 November 2007
10:58 GMT |
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Working Assets is a wireless operator that wants to make their subscribers part of a greater picture. It combines telecom services with the fight against global warming and pollution and also claims to have succeeded in making a difference.From the list of "what if" questions, there is also one that concerns the resu... |
23 August 2007
04:55 GMT |
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Although he's not sure if he's going to run in the 2008 elections (it's not up to him anyway), Al Gore is busy fighting for the environment, if at all possible. He attracted some media attention with his ongoing struggle to raise awareness to ecological issues such as global warming and carbon neutrali... |
17 July 2007
07:56 GMT |
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