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Monitoring greenhouse gases
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Highs and lows
You might think that measuring the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would be a priority. If you did think that, though, you would be wrong.
IN NEGOTIATIONS on nuclear weapons the preferred stance is “Trust but verify”. In negotiations on climate change there seems little opportunity [...]
Defusing the Methane Greenhouse Time Bomb
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Could methane-digesting bacteria and an Arctic cap of fresh water prevent a climate catastrophe?
Methane trapped in Arctic ice (and elsewhere) could be rapidly released into the atmosphere as a result of global warming in a possible doomsday scenario for climate change, some scientists worry. After all, methane is 72 [...]
The Year in Energy
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Liquid batteries, giant lasers, and vast new reserves of natural gas highlight the fundamental energy advances of the past 12 months.
With many renewable energy companies facing hard financial times (“Weeding Out Solar Companies“), a lot of the big energy news this year was coming out of Washington, DC, with massive federal stimulus funding [...]
How Can Humanity Avoid or Reverse the Dangers Posed by a Warming Climate?
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With greenhouse gas emissions continuing to rise, strong efforts will be required to reverse global warming
Wetlands from Bangladesh to Florida submerged. Drought and devastating heat in important granaries such as the Yangtze floodplain in China or Ukraine. Rains that come too often or too hard in India or the U.S. Northeast. The list [...]
Burying Climate Change: Efforts Begin to Sequester Carbon Dioxide from Power Plant
West Virginia hosts the world’s first power plant to inject some of its CO2 emissions underground for permanent storage










































