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Carbon Capture and Storage Still Important for Fighting Climate Change and Ensuring UK Energy Security

Matthew Billson discusses the importance of carbon capture and storage for fighting climate change and ensuring UK energy security, and asks: 'What next for carbon capture in the UK?' in light of the government withdrawing its £1 billion funding.

14 Dec 2015

Scientists Call for Aggressive, Immediate Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

At the beginning of week two of the Paris climate talks, an international group of scientists is calling on the world's industrial powers to aggressively and immediately reduce greenhouse gas emissions, stressing that overreliance on so-called negative emissions technologies may prove too costly and disruptive to keep Earth from overheating.

10 Dec 2015

Climate-Related Liability Could be a Big Problem for Energy Companies

In the final week of the Paris Climate Talks, check out what can be done to help energy companies mitigate instead of litigate. Climate-related liability could be a big problem for energy companies, according to a new study by Michigan Tech researcher Joshua Pearce, a materials science and electrical engineer.

10 Dec 2015

Delta Group Actively Participates in UN Climate Change Conference

Delta Group, a global leader in power and thermal management solutions that is deeply committed to corporate social responsibility, is actively participating in this year's UN Climate Change Conference (COP21).

9 Dec 2015

Estimates of Plants' Ability to Offset Greenhouse Gas Emissions may be Unrealistically Optimistic

Because plants need carbon dioxide to grow, scientists have expected rising atmospheric CO2 to substantially enhance plant growth, offsetting a portion of human CO2 emissions and, in turn, slowing climate change. However, new research from the Institute on the Environment published today in Nature Climate Change adds to a growing body of research challenging this expectation.

8 Dec 2015

Warming Effects of Climate Change Could Lead to More Carbon Flooding the Atmosphere

The warming effects of climate change usually conjure up ideas of parched and barren landscapes broiling in a blazing sun, its heat amplified by greenhouse gases. But a study led by Princeton University researchers suggests that hotter nights may actually wield much greater influence over the planet's atmosphere as global temperatures rise -- and could eventually lead to more carbon flooding the atmosphere.

8 Dec 2015

New Study Demonstrates Acute Temperature Sensitivity of Greenland Glaciers

Greenland's glaciers are retreating quickly, and a new study shows in historical terms just how quickly: over the past century, at least twice as fast as any other time in the past 9,500 years. The study also provides new evidence for just how sensitive glaciers are to temperature, showing that they responded to past abrupt cooling and warming periods, some of which might have lasted only decades.

8 Dec 2015

New Accounting Approach May Provide More Accurate Picture of Carbon Sequestration in US Forests

Scientists with the USDA Forest Service have developed a new approach to forest carbon accounting that will result in a more accurate picture of how much carbon is sequestered in forests - the planet's greatest terrestrial carbon sink - and the ramifications of changes in land use, wildfire and invasive insects on carbon sequestration.

1 Dec 2015

Black Carbon Input in Arctic Ocean is Likely to Increase with Global Warming

University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography scientist Aron Stubbins led a team of researchers to determine the levels of black carbon in Arctic rivers and found that the input of black carbon to the Arctic Ocean is likely to increase with global warming. The results of their study were recently published in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science.

1 Dec 2015

New Report Offers Important Insights for Decision Makers Contemplating Low-Carbon Future

If it's green, it's mostly clean, according to a new, comprehensive review of renewable energy sources released today by the International Resource Panel, hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

1 Dec 2015