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CharIoT on course to deliver healthier homes and lower energy bills
Posted: December 2, 2016Successful trials of CharIoT, a unique new system that simultaneously records temperature, humidity and energy use in the home, have opened the way for low-income households to save money while…
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Climate Change Will Drive Stronger, Smaller Storms in U.S.
Posted: December 2, 2016The effects of climate change will likely cause smaller but stronger storms in the United States, according to a new framework for modeling storm behavior developed at the University of…
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Exploring the fate of the Earth’s storehouse of carbon
Posted: December 1, 2016A new study predicts that warming temperatures will contribute to the release into the atmosphere of carbon that has long been locked up securely in the coldest reaches of our…
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Increasing tornado outbreaks — Is climate change responsible?
Posted: December 1, 2016Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms kill people and damage property every year. Estimated U.S. insured losses due to severe thunderstorms in the first half of 2016 were $8.5 billion. The largest…
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Corals much older than previously thought
Posted: November 30, 2016Coral genotypes can survive for thousands of years, possibly making them the longest-lived animals in the world, according to researchers at Penn State, the National Marine Fisheries Service and Dial…
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Bioenergy grass can withstand freezing temperatures
Posted: November 30, 2016March 2012 was unusually warm. Biomass crops around the Midwest were well established and thriving. But when a late frost came in mid-April, all of that changed.“When I went out…
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Climate models may be overestimating the cooling effect of wildfire aerosols
Posted: November 29, 2016Whether intentionally set to consume agricultural waste or naturally ignited in forests or peatlands, open-burning fires impact the global climate system in two ways which, to some extent, cancel each…
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With Climate Change, Not All Wildlife Population Shifts Are Predictable
Posted: November 29, 2016Wildlife ecologists who study the effects of climate change assume, with support from several studies, that warming temperatures caused by climate change are forcing animals to move either northward or…
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Groundwater helium level could signal potential risk of earthquake
Posted: November 29, 2016Researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators have revealed a relationship between helium levels in groundwater and the amount of stress exerted on inner rock layers of the…
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Can Road Salt Change Sex Ratios in Frog Populations?
Posted: November 29, 2016Naturally occurring chemicals found in road salts commonly used to de-ice paved surfaces can alter the sex ratios in nearby frog populations, a phenomenon that could reduce the size and…
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