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Researchers Say Rising Sea Levels Caused by Increasing CO2 Concentrations

Leigh Hutchens — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:18:19 +0000

Researchers at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton have compared reconstructions of atmospheric CO2 sea level concentrations over the past 40 million years, and they have determined that greenhouse gases equaling 400 parts per million, a concentration similar to today’s rates, were associated with a rise in sea level by 9 meters. The data used by […]

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University of Southampton to Develop Crops that Use Less Water

Benji Jerew — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:21:57 +0000

As humanity pushes further into the future, and considering the implications of an already-warming climate, considerations are being taken into the kind of crops that we’ll need. Genetic engineering has led to crops that are bug- and disease-resistant, which has increased food production in some areas. Southampton University, in the UK, has just been funded […]

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