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Diminishing Snow Cover Risks Plants and Animals Taking Refuge in the Subnivium

For plants and animals forced to tough out harsh winter weather, the coverlet of snow that blankets the north country is a refuge, a stable beneath-the-snow habitat that gives essential respite from biting winds and subzero temperatures.

8 May 2013

Natural Emissions and Manmade Pollutants Make Clouds Brighter Leading to Unexpected Cooling Effect

University of Manchester scientists, writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, have shown that natural emissions and manmade pollutants can both have an unexpected cooling effect on the world’s climate by making clouds brighter.

7 May 2013

Mainstream Renewable Power Sponsors Canadian Arctic Northwest Passage Rowing Expedition

Global wind and solar company, Mainstream Renewable Power today announced its sponsorship of a rowing expedition attempting a world first through the infamous Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic this summer.

6 May 2013

EIA Urges Japan not to use Bogus Carbon Offsets from Destruction of HFC-23

Environmental Investigation Agency, On April 19, 2013, the Japanese Cabinet approved the revision of its fluorocarbon regulations that will fundamentally change the way high global warming fluorocarbons are produced, used and disposed in Japan.

6 May 2013

Gov. Deval Patrick Describes Successes in Achieving Clean-Energy Goals at MIT

In an Earth Day address at MIT in 2008, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick outlined an ambitious set of goals that he said could achieve significant reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions and create businesses and jobs based on clean-energy solutions. In a follow-up talk this week, he described a series of successes in achieving these goals.

29 Apr 2013

Thousand-Year Climate Reconstruction Provides New Insights into Environmental Change in Antarctica

A new 1000-year Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction shows that summer ice melting has intensified almost ten-fold, and mostly since the mid 20th Century. Summer ice melt affects the stability of Antarctic ice shelves and glaciers.

15 Apr 2013

Factors Other than Global Warming Influence Shifting of Mountain Tree Lines

For years, many scientists believed that forest tree lines on mountains everywhere would shift to higher elevations as the planet's temperature increased due to global warming.

12 Apr 2013

Concentrating Solar Power System Helps Reduce Greenhouse Emissions in Natural Gas Power Plants

Natural gas power plants can use about 20 percent less fuel when the sun is shining by injecting solar energy into natural gas with a new system being developed by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The system converts natural gas and sunlight into a more energy-rich fuel called syngas, which power plants can burn to make electricity.

12 Apr 2013

New Model Estimates Energy Consumption and Emissions for Residential Buildings

In Finland, everyday residential life accounts for more than 30 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions from private consumption. Within the Academy of Finland’s Research Programme on Climate Change (FICCA), a model has been developed that facilitates the computational estimation of the energy consumption and emissions for all residential buildings in any given area.

11 Apr 2013

ACS Awards Grants in a New Initiative to Understand Science Underpinning Global Climate Change

The American Chemical Society (ACS) today announced awarding the first grants in a new initiative intended to increase understanding of the science underpinning global climate change among thousands of people around the country.

8 Apr 2013