Study Shows How Reduced Arctic Summer Snowfall Makes Ice Thinner
With the Arctic region warming quicker than any place on Earth, a new research presented today by Dr. James Screen from the University of Melbourne has evidenced that the rising temperatures and increased rainfall make the sea ice melt more and more.
People Living In The Countryside Pollute Just as Much as City Inhabitants, Study Says
A recent study performed by two Finnish researchers from Aalto University reveals that people living in the countryside pollute just as much as city dwellers. They used a different approach to fund their study's conclusion, placing the source of CO2 at the consumer site rather than at the production site, like it's been done before.
Biodegradable Trash Not Good For The Environment, Scientists Say
Everyone knows that biodegradable products are the best for the environment, and just because they disintegrate quickly they aren't a threat to anything... it seems not. Not that non-biodegradable materials are any better, but a recent study from North Carolina State University says biodegradable products are responsible for high methane emissions, a gas whose greenhouse effects are much more potent than those of CO2.
Gases Much More Potent Than CO2 Monitored By QUT Master Student’s Project
When you think about air pollution, the first thing popping into your head is probably carbon dioxide, and that is because i's the most...
The Importance of Icebergs in Nature-Driven Carbon Sequestration Proven by Scientists
Maybe one of the most important studies showing how the melting of icebergs affects global warming and how these icebergs help the algae sequester carbon dioxide has been published by marine biologist Ken Smith. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the electronic issue of Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography.
Capturing Carbon Dioxide From Air Would Be Inefficient, Princeton Study Says
The carbon dioxide that we emit can be reduced in several ways, out of which some are more or less effective. A study performed by Princeton engineer Robert Socolow reveals that as much as we'd want to, we simply can't remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by means of "Direct Air Capture" technologies.
Electronic Medical Records Could Save U.S. Government $81 Bln/Year and Millions of Tons of...
It's a no-brainer that by eliminating paper usage, humanity would considerably reduce carbon dioxide emissions and will slow down deforestation. The health industry is one of the largest CO2 emitters in the U.S. just by the fact that it uses paper to keep medical records. A recent study has revealed that as much as 8 percent of the total U.S. greenhouse emissions could be avoided by transitioning to electronically-stored records.
Sugarcane Crops Showed to Cool Climate
Sugarcane has been touted as a sort of an inefficient biofuel crop, since it consumes a lot of water and fertilizer, and hence its carbon footprint is not the best for such a purpose, compared to algae, for example. Sugarcane, on the other hand, can help cool the climate in a certain way.
Droughts Increase With Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, New Study Says
High concentrations of carbon dioxide could also affect atmospheric moisture, a recent study reveals. Long Cao and Ken Caldeira, from Carnegie Global Ecology found out an explanation for why the moisture increases with the decrease of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This finding could help us prevent droughts, economic instability and hunger.
Kenyan Forests Endangered by European Biofuel Crops, Local Protesters Say
Cutting down forests for the sake of planting zero-carbon biofuel crops is like fighting for peace - war will generate even more war. Kenya's Dakatcha Woodlands seems to face such an issue, since European companies seeking to harvest biofuel crops want to destroy the forest.
