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Methane Leaks Across Los Angeles Basin Mapped

2016-02-26 14:48:00| Waste Age

Science Daily Hundreds of methane-emitting hot spots have been identified across the Los Angeles Basin, including a 'clean ports' truck refueling facility near the Port of Long Beach, power plants, water treatment facilities, and cattle in Chino, according to new findings. read more

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Sea Level Mapped From Space With GPS Reflections

2016-02-23 02:11:54| rfglobalnet Home Page

The GPS signal used for ‘sat-navs’ could help improve understanding of ocean currents, according to newresearch published inGeophysical Research Letters by National Oceanography Centre (NOC) scientists, alongside colleagues from the University of Michigan and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Climate: Vegetation Sensitivity to Climate Variability Mapped Worldwide

2016-02-18 21:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: Parts of the world's boreal forests, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforest, and alpine areas, along with the rest of our earthly kit-and-caboodle, have now been incorporated into a global map of areas that are most sensitive to climate variability, say researchers with a study recently published in the journal Nature. "Based on the satellite data gathered, we can identify areas that, over the past 14 years, have shown high sensitivity to climate variability," researcher Alistair Seddon at Norway's...

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Global nitrogen footprint mapped for first time

2016-01-25 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] The first-ever global nitrogen footprint, encompassing 188 countries, has found the United States, China, India and Brazil are responsible for 46 percent of the world's nitrogen emissions. The international collaboration, led by the University of Sydney's Integrated Sustainability Analysis team in the Faculty of Science, found developing countries tend to embody large amounts of nitrogen emissions from their exports of food, textiles and clothing. Australia i…

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