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City trees and soil are sucking more carbon out of the atmosphere than previously thought

City trees and soil are sucking more carbon out of the atmosphere than previously thought

Boston University
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment

Controlled burning of natural environments could help offset our carbon emissions

University of Cambridge
Categories Earth, Energy & Environment

New model of man’s role in climate change

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“Humans didn’t wait for the industrial revolution to provoke environment and climate change. They have been having an influence for at least 8000 years.” Jed Kaplan is putting forward a new interpretation of the history of man and his environment. T…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Life & Non-humans, Technology

EARTH: Trade imbalance, America exports emissions to China

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Alexandria, VA — America has made great strides in recent years to reduce carbon emissions by increasing efficiency and turning to other, low or non-carbon energy sources. Meanwhile, carbon emissions in China have grown dramatically during that sa…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Technology

Developing countries often outsource deforestation, study finds

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In many developing countries, forest restoration at home has led to deforestation abroad, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The authors say their findings could have significant implicat…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment

Half the productivity, twice the carbon

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Unless the IT industry adopts new energy-efficient technologies in the coming decade, it runs a serious risk of being unable to contribute to growing the global economy if limits are placed on carbon emissions. The findings come from an 18-month inv…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Technology

Irrigation’s cooling effects may mask warming in some regions — for now

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Expanded irrigation has made it possible to feed the world’s growing billions — and it may also temporarily be counteracting the effects of climate change in some regions, say scientists in a new study. But some major groundwater aquifers, a so…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Space

Cement, the glue that holds oyster families together

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Oyster reefs are on the decline, with over-harvesting and pollution reducing some stocks as much as 98 percent over the last two centuries.
With a growing awareness of oysters’ critical roles filtering water, preventing erosion, guarding coasts …

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