MIT: A quicker, easier way to make coal cleaner Construction of new coal-fired power plants in the United States is in danger of coming to a standstill, partly due to the high cost of the requirement -- whether existing or anticipated -- to capture all emissions of carbon dioxide, an important greenhou
2008-11-17 00:00:00
Water vapor confirmed as major player in climate change Water vapor is known to be Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas, but the extent of its contribution to global warming has been debated. Using recent NASA satellite data, researchers have estimated more precisely than ever the heat-trapping effect of water
2008-11-17 00:00:00
MIT: Safe storage of greenhouse-gas carbon dioxide To prevent global warming, researchers and policymakers are exploring a variety of options to significantly cut the amount of carbon dioxide that reaches the atmosphere. One possible approach involves capturing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide at t
2008-11-17 00:00:00
New catalysts promise faster, cleaner and more efficient research platform A new class of catalysts devised by a team of researchers from Boston College and MIT provides a highly selective, efficient and environmentally friendly new platform for research in medicine, biology and materials science.
2008-11-16 00:00:00
Climate change 'to halt ice age' The Earth's next ice age may be postponed or stopped entirely by the effects of human-induced climate change, scientists suggest.
2008-11-14 12:48:23
UI researchers help to improve carbon measurements in global climate studies University of Iowa researchers and their colleagues have found a way to improve existing estimates of the amount of carbon absorbed by plants from the air, thereby improving the accuracy of global warming and land cover change estimates, according to a pa
2008-11-14 00:00:00
Willott welcomes government Post Office Card Account u-turn <div class="image_caption"><img src="http://www.libdems.org.uk//assets/0000/5792/Jenny_Willott_main.jpg" class="page_main_image" alt="Image"><br/>Jenny Willott</div><p>The Liberal Democrats have welcomed the Government’s de
2008-11-13 16:55:00
Acrylic glass made of sugar In the future, polymethyl methacrylate, better known as acrylic glass, could be made from natural raw materials such as sugars, alcohols or fatty acids. In a bacterial strain, scientists at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Helmholtz Centre for Env
2008-11-13 00:00:00
Measuring water from space Observations from satellites now allow scientists to monitor changes to water levels in the sea, in rivers and lakes, in ice sheets and even under the ground. As the climate changes, this information will be crucial for monitoring its effects and predicti
2008-11-13 00:00:00
MIT analysis shows how cap-and-trade plans can cut greenhouse emissions Researchers at MIT's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research have produced a report concerning key design issues of proposed "cap-and-trade" programs that are under consideration in the United States as a way of curbing greenhouse ga
2008-11-13 00:00:00
Global warming link to amphibian declines in doubt Evidence that global warming is causing the worldwide declines of amphibians may not be as conclusive as previously thought, according to biologists. The findings, which contradict two widely held views, could help reveal what is killing the frogs and toa
2008-11-12 00:00:00
Lib Dem MPs challenge Government’s support for Heathrow expansion <div class="image_caption"><img src="http://www.libdems.org.uk//assets/0000/5780/Norman_Baker_main.jpg" class="page_main_image" alt="Image"><br/>Norman Baker</div><p>Liberal Democrat MPs challenged the Government’s support
2008-11-11 17:06:00
'Airport malaria' -- cause for concern in the US "Airport malaria" is a term coined by researchers to explain the more recent spread of malaria to areas such as the United States and Europe, which some scientists credit to warmer climate changes.
2008-11-11 00:00:00
Yale report cites emerging carbon finance market Climate change is an unprecedented global problem and an emerging carbon finance market will play a critical role in addressing it, asserts a newly published Yale report.
2008-11-07 00:00:00
World needs climate emergency backup plan, says expert In submitted testimony to the British Parliament, climate scientist Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution said that while steep cuts in carbon emissions are essential to stabilizing global climate, there also needs to be a backup plan. Geoengineering s
2008-11-07 00:00:00
Planning Bill must include climate duty The Government must make climate change a central consideration of the Planning Bill, Friends of the Earth said today (Thursday 6 November 2008) as the Report stage of the Bill begins in the House of Lords.
2008-11-06 01:01:01
Global warming predicted to hasten carbon release from peat bogs Billions of tons of carbon sequestered in the world's peat bogs could be released into the atmosphere in the coming decades as a result of global warming, according to a new analysis of the interplay between peat bogs, water tables, and climate change.
2008-11-06 00:00:00
Evidence found for climate-driven ecological shifts in North Atlantic, says Cornell study While Earth has experienced numerous changes in climate over the past 65 million years, recent decades have experienced the most significant climate change since the beginning of human civilized societies about 5,000 years ago, says a new Cornell Universi
2008-11-06 00:00:00
Ecologists use oceanographic data to predict future climate change Earth scientists are attempting to predict the future impacts of climate change by reconstructing the past behavior of Arctic climate and ocean circulation. In a November special issue of the journal Ecology, a group of scientists report that if current p
2008-11-06 00:00:00
