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Fewer Trees = More Warming = Fewer Trees A 30-year study (!) involving 68 scientists from 13 countries just published in the prestigious journal Science reports bad news: the world's largest tropical rain forest is more sensitive to drought than previously thought, and the resulting loss of vegetation will have a greater-than-expected effect on carbon sequestration, and thus global ...
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Photo via lowjumpingfrog If you dreamed of being a scientist but took a different career path, here's your opportunity to do some side work to save the planet as a citizen scientist. ...
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Now that I've got your attention with scientists lighting methane bubbling up from a frozen lake (and very nearly themselves) on fire it's time to turn attention to the threat of, as Climate Feedback puts it, the sleeping giant of climate change. In case you're not aware...
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Saul Griffith led off Greener Gadgets 2009 with one of the best 40 minute explanation of why (to use his words) we're all a bunch of "planet fuckers" and what we can do to change that in terms of our energy u...
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In this short clip watch Joe Lucas, spokesperson for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity , either reveal his entire ignorance of even the most basic parts of how global warming is happening, or entirely dodge the question of whether the industry he represents has any responsibility to reduce emissi...
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"The Greenhouse and the Shed" (2002) by Gilles Bruni and Marc Babarit (Photo via artists' website ) When the going gets tough, the tough... make art. For the last few decades, environmental artists have been provoking much-needed dialogue about a new way of thinking about the environment and our relationship to nature. More often than not, environmental art is ...
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images: Bellona Undoubtedly you've heard all the talk about clean coal technologies. Leaving aside the absurdity of calling coal clean under any circumstance, the prime technology being referred to in that statement is capturing and storing the carbon emissions from that coal. But CCS could also be deployed at a natural gas or oil-fired power plant to capture emissions. ...
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