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Mountains May Suck Up Carbon Better Than Thought
2014-01-16 20:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The rocks atop steep mountains can break down into soil far quicker than previously thought, new research shows. Given that soil is involved in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the results suggest that mountains may have the potential to influence global climate, researchers say. Previous research had suggested there's a "speed limit" to the rate of new soil production and weathering on rapidly eroding mountain ranges. To test if this speed limit can be broken, researchers analyzed soil...
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DOE to provide ~$1B in cost-shared funding to FutureGen; oxy-combustion of coal with carbon capture and storage
2014-01-16 12:30:15| Green Car Congress
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Suburban living linked to bigger carbon footprint
2014-01-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: A city with a minimal carbon footprint looks a lot like San Francisco, where residents tend to commute by bus or train, live in apartments and walk to nearby shops and restaurants. Nationwide, those kinds of cities are keeping greenhouse gas emissions low - but their outlying suburbs essentially negate those climate benefits. In fact, suburbs account for 50 percent of the nation's household carbon footprint, even though they are home to less than half of the U.S. population, according to a...
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U.S. carbon emissions from fossil fuels rose in 2013 as coal use ticked up
2014-01-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: When all the data is in, it looks like carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will have gone up 2 percent in 2013 from the previous year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said on Monday. The main reason, it said, is an uptick in the use of coal for electric power. But it's also a sign of growing economic activity in general. Ever since the deep recession began in 2008, U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide had been going down. CO2 is the principal greenhouse gas that's causing...
US carbon emissions rose 2 percent in 2013 after years of decline
2014-01-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's energy sector rose about 2% in 2013 after declining for several years, federal energy officials reported Monday. The reversal came because power plants last year burned more coal to generate electricity, after years in which natural gas accounted for an increasing share of the nation's electricity, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the analytical branch of the Department of Energy. Though the 2013 figures are not final, once...
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