Seeing the carbon for the trees
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A scheme to offer nations an economic incentive to protect tropical forests is vital in the battle against climate change.
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If everyone on Earth generated the 20 tons of carbon dioxide emitted by each United States citizen yearly, the global tally now would be 134 billion tons a year, instead of 29 billion. That's a lot of billions.
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SPRING TORRENTS: In one of the most comprehensive studies of plants&#39; response to the global warming trend, Cornell scientists and their colleagues at the University of Wisconsin concluded
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It's a trend that counts Leonardo DiCaprio, London cabs and Al Gore among its followers: Making life "carbon neutral" through tree-planting and other environmentally friendly efforts to curb emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. The theme is a hot one as scientists in Paris this week prepare to issue a major report on global warming &#151; but critics say the movement is counterproductive, even a scam.
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A new tool based on satellite data shows trends in the way Europeans use our landscape.
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WALNUT CREEK, CA--The first genetic instruction manual of a diatom, from a family of microscopic ocean algae that are among the Earth&#39;s most prolific carbon dioxide assimilators, has yielded important insights on how the creature uses nitrogen, fats, and
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A new spectrometer lets scientists learn more about the planet's chemistry.
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"Offsetting" carbon emissions by planting trees is doing more harm than good, a committee of MPs is told.
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A sharp rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere raises fears global warming is speeding up, reports say.
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No one knows better how to see beyond the trees.
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A submersible robot can harvest timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green. By Michael Behar from Wired magazine.
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The growth in global carbon dioxide emissions accelerated sharply around the year 2000, a new analysis shows.
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CT scanners used for decades to peer inside humans are now being trained by scientists on hardwood trees to detect knots, cracks and other imperfections in a bid to help lumber mills make the best possible cuts of valuable logs.
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Researchers are harnessing solar energy to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, which can be used to make fuels.
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It is increasingly clear that there is a considerable cost to carbon dioxide emissions, especially to future generations.
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Steve Schmidt&#39;s social studies classroom No. 259 at Lowell High School has turned into a science lab of sorts. His science department colleagues have been measuring the carbon dioxide levels in his room and
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Fall foliage delights leaf-peeping tourists, but how does the change in color benefit trees? As scientists explain, there is a reason for the season.