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New Insights on How Climate Change Affects Species Interactions

UCLA life scientists provide important new details on how climate change will affect interactions between species in research published online May 21 in the Journal of Animal Ecology. This knowledge, they say, is critical to making accurate predictions and informing policymakers of how species are likely to be impacted by rising temperatures.

22 May 2013

UBThisSummer Lecture Series to Showcase UB’s Research Pertaining to the Environment

“The Environment” is the theme of the eighth edition of the UBThisSummer Lecture Series, the annual summer series of talks by prominent UB faculty members.

17 May 2013

Temperature Increase in Central China Greater than Previously Thought

Temperatures in central China are 10 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit hotter today than they were 20,000 years ago, during the last ice age, UCLA researchers report — an increase two to four times greater than many scientists previously thought.

15 May 2013

Novel Device Cuts Emissions from Lawnmowers

Inspired by two of their fathers, who work cutting lawns and driving a truck, a team of University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering students have created a device that attaches to a lawnmower and significantly cuts its harmful emissions.

14 May 2013

Online Game to Better Understand Sources of Global Warming Gases

Climate science researchers from Arizona State University are launching a first-of-its kind online "game" to better understand the sources of global warming gases. By engaging "citizen scientists," the researchers hope to locate all the power plants around the world and quantify their carbon dioxide emissions (CO2).

14 May 2013

Construction and Demolition Waste Being Tested as Fuel for Cement Plants

Researchers at Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy are working with Lafarge Canada to test using low carbon fuels including construction and demolition waste, asphalt shingles, utility poles and railway ties, to help power cement plants.

14 May 2013

Air Products Announces Successful Demonstration of DOE’s Carbon Capture Project

Air Products today celebrated the successful operation of a United States Department of Energy (DOE) Demonstration Project that will capture approximately one million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) in an enhanced oil recovery project in which DOE anticipates an additional estimated 1.6-3.1 million barrels of oil to be produced annually from the CO2 injection.

13 May 2013

Natural Seepage of Shale Gas may Contribute to Increase in Greenhouse Gas Concentrations

"Eternal flames" fueled by hydrocarbon gas could shine a light on the presence of natural gas in underground rock layers and conditions that let it seep to the surface, according to research by geologists at the Department of Geological Sciences and the Indiana Geological Survey at Indiana University Bloomington.

10 May 2013

Carbon Credits from California may be Utilized in the Quebec Market

KCET, the USA's largest independent public television station reports that a deal that has been reached wherein "greenhouse gas emission allowances acquired as part of California's cap and trade auction program can soon be traded along with those issued under a similar program in the Canadian province of Quebec."

8 May 2013

Comprehensive Natural Gas Fueling Solution from Clean Energy and Mansfield

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and Mansfield Energy Corp. today announced a strategic partnership to offer customers the most comprehensive solution in the compressed natural gas (CNG) fuel industry.

From Clean Energy Fuels 8 May 2013