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How to fight cow farts and save the world

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Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Space, Uncategorized

Sugarcane bioethanol: Environmental implications

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Researchers have long promoted biofuels produced from crop biomass as an environmentally sustainable source of renewable energy. A recent study questions whether the potential climate benefit of sugarcane ethanol is diminished when emissions from la…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

Berkeley scientists highlight challenges of meeting state energy goals by 2050

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California is showing the way for the rest of the nation in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, having set an ambitious goal to reduce these emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2050. Given that energy demand is projected …

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

Measuring methane

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MADISON, WI, MARCH 1, 2011 — Methane is an extremely potent greenhouse gas. Wetlands, gas hydrates, permafrost, termites, oceans, freshwater bodies, non-wetland soils, are all natural sources of atmospheric methane; however, the majority of methan…

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

Hotspots of carbon confusion in Indonesia threaten to warm the world more quickly

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Indonesia has promised to become a world leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In 2009, the president committed to a 26% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 to below ‘business-as-usual’ levels. Of this total, 14% would have to com…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment

AAAS news briefs from UC Davis

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Researchers from the University of California, Davis, will present these findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17-21.
Presentation: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions …

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment

Tip sheet: Caltech researchers presenting at AAAS

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At this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Washington, D.C., February 17 to 21, Caltech researchers will present topics ranging from solar and renewable energy solutions to the latest advancements in bioengi…

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

If greenhouse gas emissions stopped now, Earth still would likely get warmer

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While governments debate about potential policies that might curb the emission of greenhouse gases, new University of Washington research shows that the world is already committed to a warmer climate because of emissions that have occurred up to no…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment

Rising seas will affect major US coastal cities by 2100

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Rising sea levels could threaten an average of 9 percent of the land within 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100, according to new research led by University of Arizona scientists.
The Gulf and southern Atlantic coasts will be particularly hard hi…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment

Ocean fertilization summary for policymakers published

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Failure to tackle rising greenhouse gas emissions effectively has led to intensifying debate on geoengineering – deliberate large-scale schemes to slow the rate at which Earth is heating up. The public debate often mixes opinion with fact so scie…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment

The undead may influence biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions

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EAST LANSING, Mich. — It’s commonly known, at least among microbiologists, that microbes have an additional option to living or dying — dormancy.
Dormant microbes are less like zombies and more like hibernating bears. What isn’t known, howev…

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

RAND study: No direct military benefit from use of alternative fuels by armed forces

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If the U.S. military increases its use of alternative fuels, there will be no direct benefit to the nation’s armed forces, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Any benefits from investment in alternative fuels by the U.S. Department of Def…

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