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Stanford Study Reveals Soil has Potential to Slow Global Warming

According to Stanford researchers if the soil under our feet is managed well, it has the ability to trap carbon dioxide to a greater extent than previously estimated, and control global warming.

6 Oct 2017

A Combination of Sunlight and Microbes Convert Arctic Carbon into Carbon Dioxide

Almost half of the organic carbon stored in soil globally is contained in Arctic permafrost, which has undergone rapid melting, and that organic material could be changed to greenhouse gases that would worsen global warming.

5 Oct 2017

Beijing’s Harmful Haze Not Caused by Ammonia Emissions

As China grapples to discover ways to remedy the harmful haze that hangs over Beijing and other cities in the winter, researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology have raised a serious doubt on one projected cause: high quantities of ammonia in the air.

4 Oct 2017

Warming Climate Results in Increased Impact on Urban Heat Islands

The warming climate has resulted in an increased impact on urban heat islands – built-up areas where buildings, roofs and paved surfaces temperatures can be hotter than the air itself.

27 Sep 2017

MIT Professor Explains How Climate Change Could Lead to Increase in Storm Strength

In a detailed talk about the history and the underlying physics of hurricanes and tropical cyclones, MIT Professor Kerry Emanuel yesterday explained why climate change will cause such storms to become much stronger and reach peak intensity further north, heightening their potential impacts on human lives in coming years.

22 Sep 2017

Safe Carbon Dioxide Storage Test Beneficial for Leading Research Project

A new technique that cost-effectively monitors the safe storage of industrial greenhouse gas emissions is to be adopted by a leading research project.

21 Sep 2017

Stanford Researchers Aim to Promote Cleaner Technologies in Brick Kiln Industry

A revelation occurred to Stephen Luby, a Stanford epidemiologist while he was 30,000 ft up in the air. Luby was flying over India when he recognized the view from his window seat was actually brick kilns on the ground below.

15 Sep 2017

New Study Aims to Understand Chemistry Associated with Organic Particulate Matter in Forested Environment

For a few weeks over the summer in 2011, teams of scientists from around the world converged on a small patch of ponderosa pine forest in Colorado to carry out one of the most detailed, extended survey of atmospheric chemistry ever attempted in one place, in many cases using new measurement devices created especially for this project.

6 Sep 2017

Colorado Forest Study Offers Clearest Idea on Atmosphere's Organic Chemistry

An international group of Researchers came together on a small patch of ponderosa pine forest in Colorado for a few weeks during the summer of 2011 to perform one of the most comprehensive, lengthy surveys of atmospheric chemistry ever tried out in one place.

5 Sep 2017