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A Hidden Carbon Sink Underneath the World’s Deserts?

Thomas Schueneman July 31, 2015

About 40 percent of the carbon dioxide released from deforestation and burning fossil fuel stays in the atmosphere. Another 30 percent is taken up in the oceans. It was thought that the remaining 30 percent of anthropogenic carbon was absorbed by plants on land, but subsequent measurements didn’t bear that out, leading to the question of […]Read More

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All I Want for Christmas is a Price on Carbon

Richard Matthews December 19, 2013

As 2013 winds down, there are promising signs that we may actually see a price on carbon in the U.S. In 2010, the cap-and-trade bill was killed in the Senate by the fossil fuel industry’s ubiquitous misinformation campaigns. However, a confluence of events have renewed hopes that we may yet see carbon pricing legislation that […]Read More

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Carbon War Room Looks to Crowdfund $1MM to Move Caribbean

Andrew Burger August 20, 2013

Ten Island Renewable Challenge Small island states’ economies, societies and ecosystems have been burdened by the need to import oil, natural gas and coal since around the time the fossil fuel era began. Now threatened by the effects of climate change – rising sea levels and ocean acidification prominent among them – island states find […]Read More

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Forest Carbon Release from Pine Beetle Infestation Not as Severe

Thomas Schueneman March 26, 2013

As large swaths of western forests in North America succumb to pine beetle infestation, due in part to warming winters, preliminary studies show that the dead, decaying trees are not releasing the huge flux of CO2 previously feared by scientists. According to a study just released in the journal Ecology Letters, despite the billions of trees killed […]Read More

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New Study Shows Plants Absorb Carbon From Atmosphere Faster Than

Thomas Schueneman September 29, 2011

New research just published in the journal Nature say that plants, trees, and soil are absorbing carbon about 25 percent faster than scientists previously thought. A team of scientists headed-up by Lisa Welp-Smith of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have developed a new, more accurate, method of determining how much plants absorb and release carbon. […]Read More

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State of the Oceans Report: Sending Out An SOS

Thomas Schueneman June 21, 2011

A preliminary report released today by an international panel of interdisciplinary marine scientists on behalf of the International Programme on the State of the Oceans gives a stark warning that unless the combined threats facing the world’s ocean are not curbed soon, a marine mass extinction could occur on a scale unprecedented in human history. […]Read More

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Carbon Emissions Spike to Historic High

Thomas Schueneman May 31, 2011

The International Energy Agency (IEA) released estimates on Monday showing that CO2 emissions have soared to record highs after a lull in 2009 due to the global recession. 30.6 gigatons of carbon dioxide where emitted into the atmosphere in 2010, mostly from burning fossil fuels, a rise of 1.6 gigatons over 2009 according to estimates […]Read More

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