New study warns limited carbon market puts 20 percent of tropical forest at risk
... ... The stu...Experiment suggests limitations to carbon dioxide 'tree banking'
... These results from the decade-long Free Air Carbon Enrichment (FACE) experiment in a Duke University forest suggest that proposals to bank extra CO2 from human activities in such trees may depend on the vagar...Decoding mushroom's secrets could combat carbon, find better biofuels and safer soils
... The Agaricus mushroom family are highly efficient secondary decomposers of plant material such as leaves and litter breaking down the material that is too tough for other fungi and bacteria to handle. How exactly it does this, particularly how it d...Tough tubes -- Carbon nanotubes endure heavy wear and tear
... ... The report, Fatigue resistance of aligned carbon nanotube arrays unde...Scientists close in on missing carbon sink
... The Science article, "Weak northern and strong tropical land carbon uptake from...Burning fat and carbohydrate during exercise
... During exercise and physical activity, the primary fuels used by muscles are carbohydrate and fat. When mild exercise is performed there is a tendency to burn relatively more fat and less glucose, but as exercise becomes more intense, a...Human activities increasing carbon sequestration in forests
... ... The end result is a highly variable forest carbon c...Carbon monoxide protects mice from multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that causes degeneration of the nerves in the brain and spinal cord, leading to various symptoms including muscle weakness and pain. Most individuals with MS go through cycles of disease and remission, leading to the suggestion that there are regulatory mechanisms that counter the disease-causing inflammation. Using a mouse model of MS (...Carbon nanoparticles stimulate blood clotting, researchers report
HOUSTON (Oct. 21, 2005) --Carbon nanoparticles both those unleashed in the air by engine exhaust and the engineered structures thought to have great potential in medical applications promote blood-clotting, scientists report in an upcoming edition of the British Journal of Pharmacology.... ...Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Ohio University examined...Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming
... ... ''The notion is that the sooner we wean...Cisplatin is more effective than carboplatin for treating nonsmall cell lung cancer
... Recent randomized studies have shown that the addition of platinum-based drugs to standard chemotherapy improves patient outcomes. Based on this data, new guidelines for treating advanced NSCLC recommen...Soils offer new hope as carbon sink
The huge potential of agricultural soils to reduce greenhouse gases and increase production at the same time has been reinforced by new research findings at NSW Department of Primary Industries' (DPI) Wollongbar Agricultural Institute. ... Trials of agrichar - a product hailed as a saviour of Australia's carbon-depleted soils and the environment - have doubled and, in one case, tripled crop grow...Before selling carbon credits, read this
... Researchers at Montana and Colorado State Universities now have evidence that a soil model can be used to accur...Understanding the global carbon budget -- Woods Hole Research Center expert provides insights
As climate change becomes more and more a central issue in local, national, and international discussions, understanding the global carbon budget, and how it influences trends in global warming, will become increasingly crucial. The carbon cycle is related to climate and climatic change because it controls carbon dioxide, the most important of the greenhouse gases. One of the worlds preeminent e...Seeing the trees for the forest: WHRC scientists creating national biomass and carbon dataset
After completing a two-year pilot phase, scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center are expanding the scope of the "National Biomass and Carbon Dataset" for the year 2000 (NBCD2000), the first ever inventory of its kind, by moving into the production phase. Through a combination of NASA satellite datasets, topographic survey data, land use/land cover data, and extensive forest inventory data c...Satellites play vital role in understanding the carbon cycle
... The total number of carbon atoms on Earth is fixed they are exchanged between the ocean, atmosphere, land and biosphere. The fact that human activities are pumping extra carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, by fossil fuel burning and deforestation, is well kn...UC researchers shatter world records with length of latest carbon nanotube arrays
... ... Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are of great interest because of their outstanding mechanical, electrical and optical properties. Intense research has been undertaken to synthesize long aligned CNTs because of their potential applications in nanomedicine, aerospace, electronics and many other a...The global carbon budget -- proper accounting means paying attention to inland waters
... On Earth, carbon is continually cycling through terrestrial systems, inland waters, the ocean, and the atmosphere. Until little over a decade ago, when calculating the terrestrial compon...Harvard and U. Pittsburgh researchers explain carbon monoxide's anti-inflammatory effects
... According to t...Smithsonian scientists report new carbon dioxide study
Researchers at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center report the...results of a six-year experiment in which doubling the atmospheric...greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) in a scrub oak ecosystem caused a...reduction in carbon storage in the soil. ...... The scientists said these findings add a new perspective on the capacity...of Earth's soils to store carbon, and a measure of caution s...Leicester researcher to lead global team tackling carbon 'time-bomb'
... ... ... Dr Page said: "These peatlands are carbon-dense ecosystems that are ext...VIRGINIA KEY, FLA. (February 28, 2007) -- The buildup of greenhouse gases in Earths atmosphere and oceans continues to provoke changes in the natural environment that scientists have been working to measure for decades. Global increases in temperature are just one facet of a much larger issue that scientists at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science are dedicated to uncovering....Computer-designed molecule to clean up fluorocarbons?
... At sea level, the strong C-F bond makes fluo...Research to spotlight carbon monoxide benefits
... ... Carbon monoxide is an anti-inflammatory, and they want to explore its potential in treating high blood pressure, heart disease and possibly cancer. The project builds on a study cond...Carbon monoxide protects lung cells against oxygen-induced damage
... ARDS is a life-threatening medical condition in which patients experience severe shortness of breath and oxygen starvation. Although ARDS often o...Soil nutrition affects carbon sequestration in forests
... Building on preliminary studies reported in Nature, the researchers found that trees can only increase wood growth from elevated CO2 if there is en...Identification of carbon dioxide receptors in insects may help fight infectious disease
... "Insec...Global warming of the future is projected by ancient carbon emissions
... For some years, scientists have known that a massive release of carbon into the atmosphere caused the ancient global warming event known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) that began about 55 million years ago. The geolog...Global warming is reducing ocean life, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, say scientists
... ... We show on a global scale that the growth of these plants, called phytoplankton, is strongly tied to changes in th...A chilling solution: Measuring below-ground carbon without destroying trees
... The photosynthetic process of plants has been estimated to account for almost half of the carbon circulating in the Ear...Increase in carbon dioxide emissions accelerating
... ... ... He says this indicates that rec...Resilient form of plant carbon gives new meaning to term 'older than dirt'
A particularly resilient type of carbon from the first plants to regrow after the last ice age and that same type of carbon from all the plants since appears to have been accumulating for 11,000 years in the forests of British Columbia, Canada.... It's as if the carbon, which comes from the waxy material plants generate to protect their foliage from sun and weather, has been going into a bank...On the cutting edge: Carbon nanotube cutlery
... For years, biologists have wrestled with conventional diamond or glass...Using an activated-carbon filtering pitcher significantly reduces chemicals in tap water
... Researchers Steven Lvesque, Christine Beaulieu, Jean Srodes, Franois Proulx, and Manuel Rodriguez, from Universit Laval's Center for Research in Regional Planning and Development, measured con...The glutamate decarboxylase 1 gene may play a pivotal role in developing alcoholism
...... Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain. ...... An enzyme called glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) is involved in the synthesis of GABA....... Results indicate that the GAD1 gene may play a role in the development of alcoholism as well as the outcome of alcohol withdrawal. ...... ...... Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the major inhibitory neurotr...UGA researchers discover cell-wall carbohydrate that is crucial to anthrax bacterium
... Since that time, governmental authorities have been engaged in a race to find ways to keep citizens safe if terrorists attack again with Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax. Now, researchers at the University of Georgia, collaborating with scientists at the federal Centers for Disease Control...Carbon capture, water filtration, other boreal forest ecoservices worth estimated $250 billion/year
... The forests' huge value as sinks and reservoirs of atmospheric carbon, for example, is unaccounted for today but needs to be recognized in future, according to Mark Anielski of Edmonton, who will make a presentation to Canadian and international forest officials, and experts from native peoples communities, the energy, farming and to...Professor earns carbon sequestration research grant
Dr. Mark Bush, Florida Tech professor of biological sciences and chair of the department's ecology program, has earned a $177,000 grant over three years through the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Gordon Moore is a founder of Intel.... The Moore Foundation grant is part of an $860,000 award shared with Wake Forest University, the universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, and the University of Ca...Carbon monoxide may help prevent debilitating pregnancy condition
... ... A debilitating condition that affects five to seven per cent of pregnancies, pre-eclampsia is characterized by high blood pressure in pregnant women and is one of the lead...Disabling a carbohydrate trigger reduces obesity and appetite
... ... In a study that appears in this month's...