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Study: Methane is Rapidly Leaking Through Holes in Arctic Permafrost

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For the longest time, CO2 was considered the main culprit in global warming. Many would pin climate change issues on this particular greenhouse gas. However, it seems another such gas intends to make its presence feared all the same: Methane.
This greenhouse gas has been sneaking its way into the atmosphere more rapidly than scientists previously [...]


Bad Biofuel: Rainforest destruction gets green light at European pumps

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Malaysian palm oil lobbyists have apparently succeeded in keeping – and even increasing – the amount of biodiesel sourced from palm oil used in European cars and power plants. In an effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the European Commission’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED) requires 10% of fuels in the EU to come from renewable [...]


How will rise in greenhouse gases impact forests?

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Research by scientists in the U.S. state of Wisconsin is pointing to some surprising evidence concerning greenhouse gases. But this is not exactly a study on climate change: the research is an attempt to find out how rising greenhouse gas emissions will affect local forests in about 50 years time.
So far, results show that plants [...]


Top 5 Most Polluted Cities in the World

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Pollution is a bad thing. We all know this. It endangers animals and ecosystems, contaminates water supplies, and (worst of all) it contributes to Global Warming. A big factor of air pollution is all the emissions from cars, factories and so forth. It’s a problem that can be found across the globe, in small towns [...]


CO2 Emissions may be 50% Worse than Previously Estimated

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Over the years, you may have read a number of articles on global warming, climate change and carbon dioxide emissions. You may have compared reports, studied the statistics, and done your own bit of research into the matter. Then, right when you adapt to the information and become used to the fact that, “okay, right [...]


Threatened Indonesian peat forests find fair-weather friend

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‘Made up of decomposed trees and plants, sometimes as deep as 50 feet, the waterlogged land stores billions of tons of carbon dioxide. But once drained or cleared, the peat land releases many times more carbon dioxide than the deforestation of rain forests. Most experts believe that, as with rain forests, the protection of peat [...]


The real ‘Green’ grocer: Fill your cart with ‘climate smart’ food

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Sweden’s newspaper Sydsvenskan reports on how your diet can influence the climate and how to shop climate smart. Above all: eat less meat. Steak and rice do not qualify, nor do soft drinks, Dutch tomatoes or many other imported foods. The good news is that it turns out it’s much cheaper to be climate smart: [...]


There’s good news and bad news about Chinese coal, but it’s mostly bad

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Drilling, blasting, kicking up black dust and billowing noxious soot and fumes into the air, blackening industrial towns and sickening their populations. This is the picture we have of the Chinese coal industry, epitomized by the shocking conditions documented in Linfen, Shanxi province. According to an article in the Guardian from November 15th ’such techniques [...]


Phytoplankton: A Small Solution to a Big Problem

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Here is a bit of news that might shock you: the high loss of ice shelves in Antarctica may actually be a good thing.
Lloyd Peck of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) led a group of scientists in a study of the shelves and other activity taking place in the Antarctic. What they discovered is phytoplankton [...]


Methane even worse greenhouse gas than we thought

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Just when you quote a source about how much livestock farming contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, it gets worse. A lot worse. According to a recent article in the London Times, methane – the second most important greenhouse gas produced by human activity – has an even more powerful effect on climate change than previously [...]


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