Environmental decontamination, greenhouse gases, and the genome of a methane-loving bacterium
Mention greenhouse gases to most people and they're apt to think of carbon dioxide, fossil fuels, and big cars. Though carbon dioxide emissions are the major source of greenhouse gases, methane is far more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere. Like increasing carbon ...Berkeley Lab soil scientist Margaret Torn receives Presidential Early Career Award
...d ecosystems -- as sources and sinks of greenhouse gases and how the surface of the land affects things like albedo," the degree to which solar radiation is reflected. "These are key factors in radiative forcing, the basis of global warming." Torn heads the Carbon Project for DOE's Atmospheric Radiation M...Cell's gatekeeper for ammonia revealed in unprecedented detail
...help explain how ammonia, carbon dioxide and other gases are taken in, transported between cells and excret...ey, and transport carbon dioxide to the lungs. The gases are excreted from these organs. "Knowing the mode of action of Rh factors, we now know the basis of ...Do genes respond to global warming?
...l Panel on Climate Change predicts that greenhouse gases will increase global temperatures by 3.6 degrees F by 2100--a rise unprecedented over the past 10,000 years. While the effects of climate change on species' geographic range and population dynamics are increasingly understood, scientists know little ...Environmental costs of home construction lower with wise choice, reuse of building materials
...es, as well as the length of time these greenhouse gases linger in the atmosphere, to determine the global warming potential of different construction materials. They estimate the global-warming potential of the steel-frame home to be 26 percent higher than the wood-frame, and the concrete-frame home was 3...What actually influences air pollution over the Indian Ocean?
...h produce the torrential rains also lift insoluble gases like carbon monoxide into the upper troposphere, w...ng the day-to-day changes in the concentrations of gases like ozone and carbon monoxide. These forecasts indicated on which days the "plume" of pollution wou...Unicellular organisms contribute more nitrogen to ocean that reported earlier
... Carbon dioxide is one of the naturally occurring gases that traps energy from the sun and helps maintain ...ouse effect." But studies indicate that greenhouse gases that form from vehicle and industrial emissions are enhancing the greenhouse effect and contributing...Technology already exists to stabilize global warming
...howing that the benefits of controlling greenhouse gases outweigh the risks of not doing so," said Pacala. "But the rigorous analysis is not going to be possible until the warming is upon us or not, as the case may be," Pacala continued. "The alternative to acting now is to watch the experiment happen and...Dispute over life in Antarctic lake
... million years ago it started to freeze over, then gases accumulated in the lake and finally it sterilised itself," he says. This hypothesis has provoked scorn from John Priscu of Montana State University in Bozeman, author of one of the original papers on microbes in the Vostok accretion ice ( Science , v...Researchers review evolutionary history of modern algae
...ts of increased carbon dioxide, or the green house gases on life in the ocean at present and in the future. "One way to do that is to understand what was happening in the past," Quigg says. "If we have a theory or an idea, we could look in the past and check if that idea works." She says since some a...New space-borne instrument to track greenhouse gases, ozone destroyers, and other pollutants
...t are the concentrations of the primary greenhouse gases and their height in the atmosphere? The answer sho...tropopause exist and what is its role in conveying gases from the troposphere into the stratosphere, especially in the tropics? Convection was once thought ...Next best thing: wood chip bedding for cattle
...ity, show that overall the emissions of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide) were q...ad not been previously studied. Greenhouse gases are emitted during the composting process. While carbon dioxide makes up the majority of total emiss......se in the greenhouse effect." Moreover, greenhouse gases are warming the Earth faster than aerosols like du...dels. But eventually, warming caused by greenhouse gases will overwhelm any aerosol-related cooling." Many scientific questions about climate change remain, ...First ever standards linking climate change, biodiversity and poverty seek global peer review
...whelming scientific evidence implicates greenhouse gases generated by human activity in changing the global climate. Simultaneously, record numbers of people subsist in poverty and massive biodiversity losses continue largely unabated. Making matters worse, these challenges reinforce one another. Climate c...Continents played key role in collapse and regeneration of Earth's early greenhouse, geologists say
...have evolved. But life did evolve, so greenhouse gases must have been around to warm the Earth. Evidence from the geologic record indicates an abundance of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Methane probably was present as well, but that greenhouse gas doesn't leave enough of a geologic footprint to dete...Unexpected changes in Earth's climate observed on the dark side of the moon
...dition to albedo, such as the amount of greenhouse gases (water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane) present in the atmosphere. But this new data emphasizes that clouds must be properly accounted for and illustrates that we still lack the understanding of our climate system necessary to model future changes wi......cuss surprising developments in fast rotating Bose gases (G2 2). Deborah Jin of NIST/JILA will describe her group's recent experiments with degenerate gases of cold potassium atoms in the "crossover region," in which the interactions between atoms can be tu...Plankton may influence climate change says UCSB scientist
... As the Earth's ozone shield thins and greenhouse gases increase, higher ultraviolet radiation will reach the surface layer of the oceans. The findings indicate that phytoplankton will then produce more DMS in response to this increased ultraviolet radiation, causing increasing cloudiness and mitigating t...Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research helps implement global climate change initiative
...mising means of reducing the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and can be achieved through either terrestrial or geologic sinks. DOE defines terrestrial carbon sequestration as, "either the net removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere or the prevention of CO2 net emissions from the t...K-State soil carbon sequestration research playing role in climate change efforts
... estimate soil carbon sequestration and greenhouse gases in U.S. and Canadian agroecosystems. Research at K...trategies can lower the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and help improve valuable cropland. K-State also is the lead institution in the Co...