Underground carbon dioxide storage reduces emissions
...ide is a naturally occurring greenhouse gas in the atmosphere whose concentrations have increased as a result of human activity, such as burning coal, oil, natural gas and organic matter. CO 2 emissions have been linked to global warming, and there has been a worldwide effort to reduce those emissions and thei...Common chemicals morphing into potential toxins in Arctic
... industry appear to last for up to 20 days in the atmosphere and are capable of delivering PFCAs to remote envi...hamber to simulate how the alcohols degrade in the atmosphere and discovered a previously unknown reaction that produced PFCAs. Martin says the team also found th...New version of premier global climate model released
... to add four times as many points for the land and atmosphere than had existed in the previous version of CCSM, thereby producing far more information about regional variations in climate and climate change. The new version also captures such features as continental land temperatures and upper atmospheric temp...Next best thing: wood chip bedding for cattle
...ing composting. Typically, nitrogen is lost to the atmosphere as ammonia. Volatile losses of nitrogen not only reduce the nutrient value of the final compost but also have negative effects on air quality. In this study, the amount of nitrogen lost from wood chip bedded manure was less than a fifth that from cer......ears from now, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is likely to be at least two times greater than today," he said. "Any localized cooling that might occur in the North Atlantic will be overwhelmed by a very large warming caused by a large increase in the greenhouse effect." Moreover, greenhouse gas...Trapping carbon in soil key for protecting global food security, dealing with climate change
...bon once trapped in the soil have been lost to the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2). "Converting n...l said. "And the amount of carbon we emit into the atmosphere each year from industrial activity is on the rise." With too little carbon in the soil, crop product...Film found on windows after 9/11 reveals higher level of pollutants
...common in cities, releasing chemicals to the urban atmosphere on a daily basis. More research needs to be done to examine how these fires affect exposure to hazardous pollutants, according to Diamond....Continents played key role in collapse and regeneration of Earth's early greenhouse, geologists say
...ed their work. ''In the geologic past, climate and atmosphere were really profoundly influenced by development o...piece together geologic clues about what the early atmosphere was like and how it evolved, Lowe, a field geologist, has spent virtually every summer since 1977 in...Concerns remain about UVB damage to amphibians
...r do not change overnight just because the Earth's atmosphere may have changed," he said. "It's not that simple. Moreover, as ponds dry and water levels decrease, amphibians cannot just get out of the sunlight, and they are bombarded by intense UV radiation." Amphibian declines are an issue that first came to ...Gene at root of urban air pollution's lung effects
...ing three oxygen atoms. Natural ozone in the upper atmosphere plays an important role in filtering out ultraviolet rays from the sun. In the lower atmosphere, however, man-made ozone pollution results from a chemical reaction with nitrous oxide compounds released in automobile exhaust and industrial emissions, ...Genomic biology institute's first grant to focus on soybeans, climate change
... in carbon dioxide and ozone concentrations in the atmosphere affect the productivity of the crop." In addition to greenhouse gases, DeLucia's team will study the potential effects of drought under global warming conditions and how insect populations and crop pathogens may change. The project also will call up...Promising research: From employment issues to virology
...the coupling between solar radiation, high and low atmosphere should lead to a better understanding of the principles of climatic changes. (Coordinator: Professor Dr. Franz-Josef Lbken, Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Khlungsborn) Enzymes are nature's catalysts, which carry out chemical conversions i...JGI decodes wood & toxic waste-degrading fungus genome
...e carbon cycle--the circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back again. They also have demonstrated the ability to remediate explosive contaminants, pesticides and toxic waste with similar chemical structures to lignin. The sequence findings are summarized in the May 2nd on-line edition ...Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research helps implement global climate change initiative
...elopment of technologies to remove carbon from the atmosphere will enable fossil fuel use to continue without ne...of reducing the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and can be achieved through either terrestrial or geologic sinks. DOE defines terrestrial carbon seq...K-State soil carbon sequestration research playing role in climate change efforts
... lower the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and help improve valuable cropland. K-State also i...s, which seeks to mitigate greenhouse gases in the atmosphere through carbon sequestration strategies. The federally-supported consortium is comprised of expert s...Moss Landing researchers reveal iron as key to climate change
...ether this carbon dioxide would be returned to the atmosphere or would sink into deep waters as the phytoplankto... billions of tons of carbon to be removed from the atmosphere each year. Removal of this much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere could have helped cool the Earth ...Phytoplankton may stimulate uptake of CO2
.... "The difference between the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere today and during pre-industrial times is about the...ely a correlation between the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and global warming, but the relationship is hard to define." Hales' role in the study involved devel...Conservation International & SC Johnson invest in Ecuador's rainforest to offset climate impacts
...ealthy, intact forests store carbon taken from the atmosphere and thus play a unique role in mitigating the harmful effects of climate change. Global deforestation accounts for 20 percent of the annual emission of greenhouse gases. Wide-scale deforestation is fueling climate change and biodiversity loss, and ...UF study: Barren Siberia, of all places, may be original home to animal life
... them and probably warmed the climate, creating an atmosphere more conducive to life, Meert added....For the sake of land and climate, coaxing soil to soak up carbon
..., soil tillage released more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than burning of fossil fuels. Some agricultural soils have lost a third of their carbon from tillage. "These carbon-depleted soils are a tremendous potential reservoir for carbon that can help slow the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide," Amonett...