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Indonesian fires are pouring huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere
2015-10-21 15:10:46| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Last week, I noted a staggering statistic: Raging fires in Indonesia -- the result of both this years El Nino event and the clearing of forests and draining of peatlands -- have apparently given off as much carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as Germany does in a year by burning fossil fuels. The key reason is that about half of the fires are burning on carbon packed peatlands. Taken together, the impact of peat fires on global warming may be more than 200 times greater than fires on other lands,...
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Rice University study of lung cells suggests anthropogenic carbon nanotubes are common pollutants
2015-10-21 12:55:31| Green Car Congress
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Carbon pollution: the good, the bad, the ugly, and the denial
2015-10-21 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The anti-climate policy fact blurring advocacy group Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) recently published a report on the good news about rising carbon dioxide, written by Indur Goklany. Goklany has a background in electrical engineering and has been a US delegate to the IPCC. He has also in the past received $1,000 per month from the Heartland Institute and had two books published by the Cato Institute, among other affiliations with fossil fuel-funded think tanks. Goklanys affiliation...
Carbon nanotubes found in childrens lungs for the first time
2015-10-21 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Carbon nanotubes have turned up in the lungs of children living in Paris - the first time they have been detected in humans. Incredibly strong, light and conductive, nanotubes have shown great potential in areas such as computing, clothing and healthcare technology. Nevertheless, there has been some concern over their use after mouse studies showed that injected nanotubes can cause immune reactions similar to those produced by asbestos. To investigate, Fathi Moussa and colleagues at the University...
Seagrass gardens are needed to cap the carbon bomb in the oceans
2015-10-21 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Stopping the underwater carbon emissions time bomb could require widespread seagrass transplantation. Seagrass is up to 35 times more efficient at sequestering carbon than rainforests, and stores it for millennia in the sediment below. But over the past century 29 per cent of global seagrass has been destroyed and as a result it has been estimated that it is releasing carbon at a rate similar to the emissions of Australia and the UK combined. Now an analysis of a seagrass disturbance shows that...
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