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Southeast Asian fires emitted most carbon since 1997: scientists
2016-06-28 17:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Forest fires that blanketed Southeast Asia in thick haze last year released the greatest amount of climate-changing carbon since record blazes in 1997, producing emissions higher than in the whole of the European Union, scientists said on Tuesday. Singapore, Malaysia and northern Indonesia choked under a layer of toxic smog in September and October last year, caused by thousands of fires started in Indonesia to cheaply clear land for palm oil crops and for pulp and paper plantations. The fires...
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Which Power Plants Emitted the Most Mercury?
2015-06-30 15:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a blow to an Obama administration regulation cutting mercury and other toxic emissions from power plants. The court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency didnt do enough to consider the costs of complying. As a result, the EPA will have to reexamine and perhaps alter its rules. But since the regulation went into effect earlier this year, many power plants have already installed equipment reducing mercury, a neurotoxin linked to lower IQs and other...
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NASA-led analysis characterizes the impact of jet fuel composition on emitted aerosols
2015-04-03 17:55:32| Green Car Congress
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In 2004, US Livestock Emitted More Methane than Oil and Gas Industry
2014-07-12 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: In this day and age, good old carbon dioxide is the poster child for global warming and climate change. Consequently, there are many who keep badmouthing it and who would love nothing more than rid our planet of it. However, there is one other very potent greenhouse gas way more potent than carbon dioxide that we should be worrying about, but that, for some reason, does not make it on the news all that often. This gas is methane, scientists explain. Unlike carbon dioxide, it does not linger...
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Even more carbon emitted tropical forests
2014-05-26 23:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Earth Times: A journal has an interesting article to challenge current climate change theory and global warming solutions in - Global Change Biology. The underestimate of carbon loss arises from selective logging and set fires which can be grouped together as hidden emissions. The hidden nature of tropical deforestation methodology is part of the main problem too. Satellite assessments are unable to view such slow change, but these depredations cause 40% of Brazilian CO2 emissions from deforestation. The Amazon...
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