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Vacuuming carbon from the atmosphere may be most realistic solution to climate changeBerlin (UPI) Apr 14, 2013 In order to stave off the worst of global warming's consequences, the world's nations must find a way to reduce carbon emissions by 40 to 70 percent by 2050. That's one of many claims made in the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The new report also suggests vacuuming up vast amounts of CO2 from the skies and storing it underground may be the most viable solution for mitigating the greenhouse gas effect in the short term. It's the third report on cl ... read more |
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 Brain size matters when it comes to animal self-control What gave us the advantage over extinct types of humans Cyber buddy is better than 'no buddy' Wildlife response to climate change is likely underestimated How Australia got the hump with 1 million feral camels Too many chefs: Smaller groups exhibit more accurate decision-making | .. |
 UN climate goal feasible but energy reform vital: panel The world has a likely chance of meeting the UN's warming limit of two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) if it cuts annual greenhouse gas emissions 40-70 percent by 2050, especially from energy, a top expert panel said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Global warming not taken seriously: World Bank's Kim Global warming is not being taken seriously and time is running out to avoid consequences like flooded cities and dried out farmland, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 UC Geographers Develop a System to Track the Dynamics of Drought University of Cincinnati researchers are at work tracking drought patterns across the United States. Qiusheng Wu, a doctoral student and research assistant for the UC Department of Geography, and Ho ... more | .. |
 Researchers find arid areas absorb unexpected amounts of atmospheric carbon Researchers led by a Washington State University biologist have found that arid areas, among the biggest ecosystems on the planet, take up an unexpectedly large amount of carbon as levels of carbon ... more |
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 A Few Winners, But Many More Losers In Climate Change Dramatic distribution losses and a few major distribution gains are forecasted for southwestern bird and reptile species as the climate changes, according to just-published research by scientists wi ... more | .. |
 Climate Models Underestimate Costs to Future Generations Future generations will have to pay more for today's carbon emissions than what governments across the world currently understand. The climate models used by policymakers around the world to estimat ... more | .. |
 Slowdown of global warming fleeting The recent slowdown in the warming rate of the Northern Hemisphere may be a result of internal variability of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation - a natural phenomenon related to sea surface tem ... more | .. |
 UN warns of drought crisis in Syria The UN's food aid agency warned on Tuesday that Syria was facing a drought that could put millions of people's lives at risk, compounding the impact of years of war. ... more |
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 Fox News leads all TV news in misleading climate change coverage No one gets it right all the time. But when it comes to reporting on climate science, Fox News gets it wrong more often than not - that according to a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists. ... more | .. |
 Climate change forces flower festival forward a month since 1960s Organisers of flower festivals are being forced to adapt to increasingly early first blooming dates in spring, according to a study by a Coventry University academic which is shortly due to be publi ... more | .. |
 Climate: UN experts see options to brake juggernaut A week after publishing the starkest warning yet on the risks of climate change, UN experts meet in Berlin from Monday to assess options for limiting the threat. ... more | .. |
 Carbon cuts possible for manageable warming: experts The world, acting urgently, can curb carbon emissions enough to avert worst-case scenarios for climate change, UN experts said Monday as envoys met in Berlin to weigh the options for action. ... more |
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 Sri Lanka seeks divine help to avoid power cuts Sri Lanka's energy minister offered flowers and lit thousands of oil lamps as she prayed for rains to replenish drought-hit reservoirs which are used for hydro-power plants, an official said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
Calls for action as world faces fork in climate road A stark warning by UN scientists of menacing climate change prompted demands Monday for urgent action to curb greenhouse-gas emissions even as a global pact remained elusive. ... more | .. |
 Research suggests autumn is ending later in the northern hemisphere A study by the University of Southampton suggests that on average the end of Autumn is taking place later in the year and Spring is starting slightly earlier. A team of researchers examined sa ... more | .. |
 Climate change boosts conflict risk, floods, hunger: UN Soaring carbon emissions will amplify the risk of conflict, hunger, floods and mass migration this century, the UN's expert panel said Monday in a landmark report on the impact of climate change. ... more |
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 Russia to Boost Manpower on New Space Center Construction Site Taylor Small Satellite Launched Liquid spacetime Physicists consider implications of recent revelations about the universe's first light No Official Confirmation of NASA Severing Ties with Russian Space Agency NASA Selects Commercial Crew Program Manager | .. |
 US to tackle methane in climate change push The White House pledged Friday to clamp down on US emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas produced by cattle and natural gas production that contributes to climate change. ... more | .. |
 IPCC chief: Worst can be avoided with action now The United Nation's head of climate change issues stressed Wednesday that the earth's warming trend, almost certainly caused by people, can still be eased. ... more | .. |
 White House launches website to visualize climate change The White House unveiled a new climate change visualization website Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Plankton make scents for seabirds and a cooler planet The top predators of the Southern Ocean, far-ranging seabirds, are tied both to the health of the ocean ecosystem and to global climate regulation through a mutual relationship with phytoplankton, a ... more |
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 Southeast England most at risk of rising deaths due to climate change Warmer summers brought on by climate change will cause more deaths in London and southeast England than the rest of the country, scientists predict. Researchers at Imperial College London looked at ... more | .. |
 How global wide warming changed Earth 56 million years The growing and justified concern about the current global warming process has kindled the interest of the scientific community in geological records as an archive of crucial information to understa ... more | .. |
 Linking storms to climate change a 'distraction' Connecting extreme weather to climate change distracts from the need to protect society from high-impact weather events which will continue to happen irrespective of human-induced climate change, sa ... more | .. |
 Scientists meet in Japan to deliver grim climate warning International scientists on Tuesday kicked off a week-long meeting in Japan that is set to deliver dark predictions on the impact of climate change, warning of severe floods and droughts that could spark conflict and wreck economies. ... more |
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