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• Saturn’s eccentric orbit may explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, November 30 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have suggested that the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may be caused by the eccentricity of the planet’s orbit around the sun.As revealed by ...
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• Scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  Researchers suggest that the eccentricity of Saturns orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planets largest moon, Titan. On Earth, similar "astronomical forcing" of climate drives ice-age cycles.
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• Australians try to stop sheep burping to reduce methane emissions

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, November 30 (ANI): Reports indicate that Australian scientists are trying to breed a sheep that belches less, as they look for ways to reduce harmful methane emissions from the country’s flocks. According to a report in the Telegraph, John Goop, the study leader, measured the sheep’s emissions by herding ...
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• Americans throw away enough food every year to feed 200 million adults

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  The amount of food Americans throw away has risen by approximately 50 percent since 1974 according to a new study in PLoS ONE . American now waste on average 1400 calories per person everyday, equaling 150 trillion calories a year nationwide. Considering that the average person requires approximately 2,000 calories ...
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• Energy-Saving Powder May Allow Exploitation of Unused Reserves of Natural Gas

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 436
  Image via Wikipedia It is currently estimated that natural gas resources will be exhausted in 130 years; however, those reserves where extraction is cost-effective will only flow for another 60 years or so. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and ...
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• Australians try to stop sheep burping

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Australian scientists are trying to breed a sheep that belches less, as they look for ways to reduce harmful methane emissions from the countrys flocks.
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• We need to breed green sheep that burp less

  
  Eideard — Authority: 445
  Breeding sheep that burp less.
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• Australias answer to global warming – breed a burp free sheep

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  November 29, 2009 Australias answer to global warming - breed a burp free sheep Anne Barrowclough in Sydney The Australian Governments plans to enact a law for an emissions trading scheme are in chaos and the opposition Liberal party is in meltdown over the climate change legislation. But Australian scientists have ...
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• A. Shiklomanov: A general increase of river discharge to the Arctic Ocean from Eurasia; 30% higher than average in 2007

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 440
  Dear Readers, For those who might not realize the implications of increased flow from rivers that empty into the Arctic Sea, permit me to provide some background in my usual non-scientific language. OK, in areas where there is no permafrost, we have "groundwater" under the ground, right?  This can be quite close to ...
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• Caltech scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  (California Institute of Technology) Researchers at Caltech suggest that the eccentricity of Saturns orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planets largest moon, Titan. On Earth, similar "astronomical ...
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• Coal-burning China invests in methane capture

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 181
  China, a massive consumer of fossil fuels and coal in particular, is trying to modernise its mines by containing emissions of methane and turning the toxic gas into a source of much-needed energy. Authorities in Beijing have made methane capture a
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• Biogas. Coulombic efficiency. “… anode-respiring bacteria oxidizing H2 and producing current which recycled H2 between the cathode and the anodes, increasing CE to over 100% …”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 128
  “… designed an upflow single-chamber microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) by placing the cathode on the top of the MEC and carried out a program to track the fate of H2 and electron equivalents in batch experiments.” 1Researchers from the Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State ...
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• Pig Farts Spark Gas Scare

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 782
  Residents of Axedale, Australia called authorities when they smelled what they believed to be a gas leak. Firefighters responded to the home and found a 120 kilogram pet pig, which they believe to be the source of the gas. “She got very excited when two trucks and 15 firies turned up and she squealed and farted ...
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• Bellying Up To Environmentalism

  
  World Change Cafe — Authority: 120
  By James E. McWilliams I gave a talk in South Texas recently on the environmental virtues of a vegetarian diet. As you might imagine, the reception was chilly. In fact, the only applause came during the Q&A period when a member of the audience said that my lecture made him want to go out and eat even more meat. ...
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• Climate Changes

  
  NEXT100 — Authority: 126
  By: Kory Raftery Several stories on the science and politics of global warming caught our attention this week: After weeks of speculation, White House representatives announced that President Obama will head to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on December 9. Its expected that while in ...
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• China invests in methane capture

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  China, a massive consumer of fossil fuels and coal in particular, is trying to modernise its mines by containing emissions of methane and turning the toxic gas into a source of much-needed energy.
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• Climate Change a Threat to Russian Oil Wealth

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  Two million square miles of permafrost—an area two-thirds the size of the United States has now thawed since the beginning of the 20th century. And all that thawing permafrost is costing the Russian oil and gas industry billions of dollars to repair damaged pipelines and infrastructure as global warming changes ...
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• Marvellous distempered: the Copenhagen diagnosis

  
  Hot Topic — Authority: 557
  The Copenhagen climate conference (COP15) opens its doors in a little under two weeks. To update participants on the science of climate a new assessment report, The Copenhagen Diagnosis, was released yesterday, and it makes grim reading. Designed to inform “a target readership of policy-makers, stakeholders, the ...
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• Study finds coal-bed methane production could foul water in Moffat County

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 652
  A study being conducted by the Colorado Geological Survey (CGS) shows the very real potential for groundwater contamination by coal-bed methane production in the Sand Wash Basin area of Moffat County, according to the Craig Daily Press . An unadorned coal bed Coal-bed methane production involves ...
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• Artic Expedition Investigates Climate Change, Alternative Fuel

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 615
  An Arctic expedition may yield clues about climate change, while also providing the impetus to exploit an alternative fuel that may be mined from under the Beaufort Sea.International scientists took part in surveys that sampled three regions of the Alaskan shelf to determine methane cycling into the atmosphere.The ...
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