Geoengineering the climate : science, governance and uncertainty

23 Sep, 2009 03:17 pm Earlier this month, the Royal Society of the UK issued a report entitled "Geoengineering the climate : science, governance and uncertainty"...

Climate Change | The Big Question

18 May, 2009 11:19 am Look back over the last decade, and what stands out. There has been 3 major trends of discussion:

Geoengineering the Climate: Bad for You and Our Energy Future

3 May, 2009 06:29 pm Proposals to reduce global warming through giant engineering projects or so-called geoengineering abound. Almost all are in the idea stage...

Permanent Wood Sequestration as a Means to Solve the Global CO2 Problem

28 May, 2008 11:57 am By Drs. Fritz Scholz and Ulrich Hasse: The increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere ranks first among the global environmental threads...

Power From Formic Acid

20 May, 2008 11:05 am One of the central challenges of our time is the supply of enough environmentally friendly and resource-efficient energy to our society.

Carbon Balance and Management

15 May, 2008 12:38 pm Current understanding of processes relevant for climate supports the view that the warming of the last decades is attributed basically to anthropogenic...

Technological Breakthrough in the Fight to Cut Greenhouse Gases

14 May, 2008 09:13 am Two of the major problems facing scientists at the start of the 21st century are undoubtedly: combating climate change and breaking the reliance of the...

MIT Tracks Carbon Footprints of Different Lifestyles

8 May, 2008 03:23 am In America, even the smallest footprints are large...

David vs. Goliath: The Emerging Climate Fault Line

15 Apr, 2008 07:15 pm A new fault line has emerged in the climate movement amidst a firestorm of debate over the past week. On one side is a group of old-guard and well-known...

The Geochemical Origin of Part of CO2 Emissions in Semiarid Climates

4 Apr, 2008 11:49 am The implementation of the Kyoto Protocol has raised, among other pressing matters, the need of getting to know the annual levels of carbon in different...

Stabilizing the Climate Requires Near-Zero Carbon Emissions

28 Feb, 2008 11:30 am What warming is produced by an individual release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere? This question was addressed by Damon Matthews (Concordia University...

Cars Warm Up, Ships Cool Down

21 Jan, 2008 12:09 pm Road traffic is by large the transport sector that contributes the most to global warming. Aviation has the second largest warming effect,...

Climate Change Linked to Human Mortality

14 Jan, 2008 12:10 pm Scitizen interviews Dr. Mark Jacobson, whose recent study demonstrates a cause-effect relationship between increased levels of carbon dioxide and increase...

A Red Sea Dam: Huge Power and Massive Destruction

18 Dec, 2007 11:30 am Today?s technological know-how makes it possible to construct a dam across the southern entrance of the Red Sea. Evaporation is high in the Red Sea,...

Do the World?s Oceans Take Up Less Carbon Dioxide?

19 Nov, 2007 11:33 am The answer is: Yes, for the North Atlantic over the last decade.

The "Other" Side of Climate Change: Rising CO2 and Marine Life

15 Nov, 2007 02:22 pm Professor Ulf Riebesell, of the Department of Biological Oceanography at Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel,...

Ancient British Bog Provides Clue to Global Warming

28 Sep, 2007 12:02 pm A group of interdisciplinary scientists have used the chemical signatures of microbial molecules preserved in ancient bog to learn how the Earth responded...

Increase CO2 Levels Could Alter Rangelands

31 Aug, 2007 03:41 pm Jack Morgan reports in this week issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that wide-open rangelands may become less common as shrubby...

Flooding Risk under Future Global Warming Scenarios May Be Greater

30 Aug, 2007 11:12 am A new study published today in Nature reports that current scenarios of global warming underestimate the contribution of plants to future changes in continental...