Studies Say Clearing Land for Biofuels Will Aid Warming
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Clearing land to produce biofuels such as ethanol will do more to exacerbate global warming than using gasoline or other fossil fuels, two scientific studies show.
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University of Minnesota scientists recently reported research results  indicating that biofuels derived from grassland plants yield up to twice  as much energy, per unit of land, as corn-based ethanol does.
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A top level report on artic climate change spurred by global warming has outlined possible oil industry benefits, but also many potential pitfalls.
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BERLIN, May 21 (IPS) - New scientific evidence confirms that human action,  such as carbon emissions causing global  warming, and  industrial-scale search for food, is decimating biodiversity -  and, in some  cases, is driving threatened species to evolve and  adapt at unexpected speed to new living  conditions.
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Clearing tropical forests to grow crops leads to a downward spiral in nutrients within the soil, a study suggests.
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Today's tools could cap emissions that contribute to global warming, study finds.
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A comprehensive four-year study of warming in the Arctic shows that heat-trapping gases from tailpipes and smokestacks around the world are contributing to profound environmental changes
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California has become the first state to reward landowners for leaving forests standing to help control global warming, under a program adopted this week by the California Climate Action Registry.
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SACRAMENTO -- This city believes an answer for global warming is growing on trees.
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Science & environment: Scientists hope evidence will save other areas of land given over to timber and oil-palm plantations.
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The widespread use of ethanol from corn could result in nearly twice the greenhouse gas emissions as the gasoline it would replace because of expected land-use changes, researchers concluded Thursday. The study challenges the rush to biofuels as a response to global warming.
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Anticipated global warming by mid-century may be less severe in the central U.S. than elsewhere in the country, researchers said Tuesday.
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A U.S. geographer says he believes an urban landscape of circular parks, lawns and even buildings can help reduce the urban heat island effect.
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The rapid growth of the world's biofuel industry is likely to keep farm commodity prices at high levels in the next decade as it will boost demand for grains, oilseeds and sugar, a major study said on Wednesday.
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By Ian Johnston Environment Correspondent  WILD flowers grown on some of the world's least fertile land could provide huge amounts of environmentally friendly biofuel, according to US scientists.
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Arctic plant seeds are able to migrate the distances needed to survive climate changes, scientists suggest.
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An international team of scientists says the Arctic is warming much more rapidly than previously known because of the burning of fossil fuels around the world.