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Secondhand smoke: Nations producing less greenhouse gas most vulnerable to climate change
2016-02-05 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: The study shows that the highest emitting countries are ironically the least vulnerable to climate change effects such as increased frequency of natural disasters, changing habitats, human health impacts, and industry stress. Those countries emitting the least amount of greenhouse gases are most vulnerable. The majority of the most vulnerable countries are African and Small Island States. These countries are exposed to serious environmental change such as oceanic inundation or desertification....
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Bill would help state meet greenhouse gas emissions goals
2016-01-30 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A bill approved by the Massachusetts Senate would set new targets to help the state meet its greenhouse gas emissions goals. The new targets would help the state meet its existing 2050 statewide greenhouse gas emissions goals set by the Global Warming Solutions Act. The bill sets an emissions limit of between 35 and 45 percent below the 1990 emissions level by 2030. The bill then sets another emissions limit of between 55 and 65 percent below the 1990 emissions level by 2040. The bill would also...
Indonesias fires blamed potent greenhouse gases
2016-01-23 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Indonesian fires that are expected to flare up again in the coming months may affect temperatures far away from the nation's watery borders. Carbon dioxide and methane from the fires is already known to be accelerating global warming, and new research is linking high levels of another potent greenhouse gas with forest and peat fires in Indonesia and elsewhere. Analysis of tropospheric data gathered using specially-modified jets during Guam-based missions has linked elevated levels of ozone...
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Soil frost affects greenhouse gas emissions in the Arctic
2016-01-17 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Soil frost is a nearly universal process in the Arctic. In a recent dissertation by doctoral student Marina Becher at Ume University, it is shown that the frequency and extent of soil frost is important for the release of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from arctic soil. Soil in the Arctic has for thousands of years gathered large quantities of decomposed organic matter due to the decomposition being slow at the low temperatures in the region. As temperatures in the Arctic are increasing, there...
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Ice sheets may be hiding vast reservoirs of powerful greenhouse gas
2016-01-13 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] The study indicates that under the frigid weight of Barents Sea Ice sheet, which covered northern Eurasia some 22 000 years ago, significant amounts of methane may have been stored as hydrates in the ground. As the ice sheet retreated, the methane rich hydrates melted, releasing the climate gas into the ocean and atmosphere for millennia. This finding was published last week in Nature Communications in the paper “Ice-sheet-driven methane storage and rele…
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