 Amazon under threat from cleaner air May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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The Amazon rainforest, so crucial to the Earth’s climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air say prominent UK and Brazilian climate scientists in the leading scientific journal Nature. | |
Ponds found to take up carbon like world's oceans May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Research led by Iowa State University limnologist, or lake scientist, John Downing finds that ponds around the globe could absorb as much carbon as the world's oceans. | |
 Fighting global warming — at the dinner table May 05, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Substituting chicken, fish, or vegetables for red meat just once a week can help combat climate change — even more dramatically than buying locally sourced food, according to scientists in Pennsylvania who ... | |
 Chilean volcano town nearly deserted May 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The Chaiten volcano spewed light ash on a nearly deserted village Saturday, two days after its first eruption in thousands of years. | |
 Palm oil wiping out key orangutan habitat: activists May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
One of the biggest populations of wild orangutans on Borneo will be extinct in three years without drastic measures to stop the expansion of palm oil plantations, conservationists said Wednesday. | |
Finding the real potential of no-till farming for sequestering carbon May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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The potential of no-tillage (NT) soils for increasing the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool must be critically and objectively assessed. Most of the previous studies about SOC accrual in NT soils have primarily focused on the ... | |
 Vog - volcanic smog - kills plants, casts a haze over Hawaii May 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(AP) -- For eight years, Tony and Sam Bayaoa have grown thousands of bright red, yellow and pink protea flowers on their farm. Then last month, Kilauea volcano opened a new vent and began spewing double the ... | |
Ecological Impact of Bridge Design Is Not Trivial, UB Professors Say May 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The latest delay in the construction of a new Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Ft. Erie, Ontario, may be trying the patience of Western New Yorkers, but the region has more to lose than time if it erects a bridge that destroys ... | |
 Baltic sea ice cover hits an all-time low: meteorologists May 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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The extent of ice covering the Baltic sea this winter reached an all-time low, since measurements began more than a century ago, Swedish meteorologists said. | |
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