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CE2 Carbon Capital, a company dedicated to building a portfolio of carbon offsets and other assets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in North America announced today that it has completed a transaction with Alabama-based Black Warrior Solid Waste Disposal Authority to purchase Carbon Reduction Tonnes generated by a landfill gas facility located in Northport, Alabama
Washington, July 9 : A new study has discounted a theory which suggested that when a giant volcano on Sumatra blew its top 74,000 years ago, the Earth went into deep freeze, cooling the climate by at least 10 degrees Celsius.
Maybe Humboldt isn't the best location for clear skies. After all, our airport was originally built so World War II pilots could practice landing in fog. Even here, though, we should occasionally be able to spot our closest planetary neighbors this month.
L'AQUILA, Italy - Targeting global warming, President Barack Obama and other leaders of the world's richest industrial countries pledged Wednesday to seek dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to slow dangerous climate change. Setting a marker for success, they agreed for the first time that worldwide temperatures must not rise more than a few degrees.
"It floats like a breath," said the tall and elegant woman with the beautifully bred terrier, spring-loaded and taut on a lead. But, then, after 18 years as director of London's Serpentine Gallery, Julia Peyton-Jones is genetically predisposed to the gracious dispensation of almost irresistible one-liners.
A new study puts to rest questions about whether an ancient volcanic eruption plunged Earth into a 1000-year deep freeze and whether an equivalent event today could jump-start a new, millennium-long ice age.
About a week ago, a friend called me in a panic. She realized that her sump pump failed and there was water all over her basement. After calling in the plumbers and the clean up team, she called me to ask if there was any way that she can save her beloved childhood scrapbooks. She told me, "While you had always told me not to store my scrapbooks in the basement, I had them up on shelves so I ...
Using radiation measurements obtained by the MetOp satellite, scientists have produced the first complete map of global ammonia emissions – a pollutant of key environmental concern.
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