Fire experiments on peatlands in Southeast Asia have identified previously unknown emissions patterns and could point to ways to detect these smoldering fires before they become too big to fight.
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Amazon Fires Contribute to Andean Glacier Melting
New research finds that black carbon emissions produced by fires in the Amazon cause glaciers in the Andes to absorb more sunlight and melt more.
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2020 Hindsight: A Website for All Paleo-CO2 Data
A new website will soon compile and display all ancient atmospheric CO2 data.
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Fugitive Gas Abetted by Barometric Pressure
Barometric pressure, in addition to factors such as lithology and the depth of the water table, can influence patterns of natural gas that escapes to subsurface soils.
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Climate Change Will Make Us Sicker and Lose Work Hours
Experts have given the United States a warning: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or suffer the consequences of lower productivity and a sicker population for generations to come.
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Ocean-Based Actions Provide Big Opportunities to Curb Emissions
A new report outlines key areas to help mitigate emissions, including increased renewable energy, more efficient ocean-based transport, and advances in managing fisheries and aquaculture.
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Human Activity Outpaces Volcanoes, Asteroids in Releasing Deep Carbon
Humanity’s carbon emissions are, by far, the largest disturbance to Earth’s steady state carbon cycle.
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The Coming Surge of Rocket Emissions
With the space industry’s rapid growth, rocket exhaust will increasingly accumulate in the atmosphere. How this accumulation might affect the planet is unknown—because we’re not taking it seriously.
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Emissions Rollbacks
The suit argues that the administration is failing to curb carbon dioxide emissions as required under the Clean Air Act.
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House Committee Calls for Zero Greenhouse Gas Pollution by 2050
Democrats on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce plan to introduce comprehensive legislation later this year to deal with climate change.