Global Warming News

RSS

Kyocera Earns Environmental Excellence Award for Preventing 4,000 t of CO2 Emissions

By fundamentally altering its freight-shipping practices, Kyocera Communications Inc., a San Diego-based provider of wireless phones in the Americas and a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyocera International Inc., was able to prevent more than 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2011.

24 Oct 2012

Study Reveals Seafloor Landscape Controls Ice-Sheet Retreat

Ice-sheet retreat can halt temporarily during long phases of climate warming, according to scientists.

17 Oct 2012

SunSi Estimates Renewable Electrical Energy Capacity of 1.3 MW at Zibo Qilin Fushan

SunSi Energies, an international manufacturer, seller and distributor of energy products and solutions, today announced that it has expanded the project size of its previously announced letter of intent to install one of its proprietary, modular Organic Rankine Cycle systems ("ORC unit") at Zibo Qilin Fushan Iron & Steel Company ("Qilin"), a steel producing company located in the Shandong province of China.

10 Oct 2012

Scientists Hope to Map CO2 Emissions in Major US Cities

Arizona State University researchers have developed a new software system capable of estimating greenhouse gas emissions across entire urban landscapes, all the way down to roads and individual buildings. Until now, scientists quantified carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at a much broader level.

10 Oct 2012

Human Activities in the Middle Ages May Have Contributed to Climate Change

New data extracted from Greenland’s glaciers show that methane in the atmosphere follows the waxing and waning of civilizations.

9 Oct 2012

Warmer Temperatures Unlikely to Boost Global Biodiversity

A new study carried out by researchers from the Universities of York, Leeds and Glasgow revealed that as the planet warms, biodiversity on Earth increases. The study involved analysis of geological and fossil records dating back to 540 million years.

4 Sep 2012

More Yedoma Carbon is Being Rapidly Converted to CO2 than Estimated

A team of researchers have found that carbon is being thaw released from Yedoma along the northernmost Siberian Arctic coast which stretches to around 7000 km. Increased warming of the Arctic climate may accelerate the collapse of the Yedoma leading to more CO2 being released. The Arctic region is experiencing double the climate warming which is considered as the global average.

31 Aug 2012

Specialized Aircraft the Best Option for Delivering Solar Geoengineering Materials

Reducing the amount of sunlight that hits the Earth may help reduce the detrimental effects of climate change. Scientists have performed a study on the affordability and feasibility of delivering solar geoengineering materials into the stratosphere in order to reduce this effect.

31 Aug 2012