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New research in Thailand finds birds and bats key to reforestation efforts
Posted: September 30, 2014Tropical forest restoration projects are exciting research sites for scientists studying factors that affect ecosystem recovery. Here, scientists are trying to understand plant community succession, i.e. the process of recovery…
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New MIT report predicts serious future warming
Posted: September 30, 2014Global temperature is likely to rise 3.3-5.6 degrees Celsius by the end of this century, unless international climate negotiations in Paris next year are more effective than expected, according to…
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It’s important to ventilate if you are cooking with gas!
Posted: September 29, 2014Cooking with gas is preferred by many cooks to alternatives. The popularity of “professional” stoves and cooktops with high-output burners makes cooking more fun perhaps, but those high-output burners also…
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Causes of California drought linked to climate change, Stanford scientists say
Posted: September 29, 2014The atmospheric conditions associated with the unprecedented drought currently afflicting California are “very likely” linked to human-caused climate change, Stanford scientists write in a new research paper. In a new…
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Connecting Productivity of Office Workers and Climate Change
Posted: September 29, 2014Energy efficiency in office buildings struggles to gain the attention of top management, writes John Alker – because energy is too cheap to really matter. But with 90% of operating…
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Climate change more of a risk to the Greenland Ice Sheet than thought
Posted: September 29, 2014A new model developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge has shown that despite its apparent stability, the massive ice sheet covering most of Greenland is more sensitive to…
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Some good news for the oceans!
Posted: September 28, 2014Good news for aquatic life: the oceans just got a little bit safer. Okay, so most of the ocean remains vulnerable to human devastation, but on Thursday, President Barack Obama…
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Reducing global trade would cut carbon emissions
Posted: September 27, 2014If the world’s leaders really cared about climate change, there’s one easy way to reduce emissions, writes John Weeks – drop the obsession with increasing trade, and all the pollution…
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Cornell finds molecule in space that connotes life origins
Posted: September 26, 2014Hunting from a distance of 27,000 light years, astronomers have discovered an unusual carbon-based molecule – one with a branched structure – contained within a giant gas cloud in interstellar…
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Study calculates that water on Earth is actually older than our Sun!
Posted: September 26, 2014Water was crucial to the rise of life on Earth and is also important to evaluating the possibility of life on other planets. Identifying the original source of Earth’s water…
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