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• Farmer plants 100,000 trees: still not enough carbon credits

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 544
  | Sourced From Theland.farmonline.com.au | AFTER planting 100,000 trees on their New England grazing property “Blaxland” since 1990 – and still planting – the Street family expected to be well in the black on greenhouse gas accounting. But “Blaxland” is not in the black. Despite carbon sequestration ...
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• Carbon storage research gets $601,158 federal grant

  
  River Country Journal — Authority: 149
  KALAMAZOO–Armed with more than $600,000 in new federal funds, a Western Michigan University-led effort to store greenhouse gas emissions deep below the ground is picking up steam, positioning Michigan in the forefront of states exploring carbon capture and geological sequestration and providing the geological ...
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• Oceans can’t keep up with human emissions

  
  EcoTone — Authority: 119
  A study out in Nature today puts some long-term figures on a trend that climate scientists and ecologists have seen coming for some time: Oceans are no longer absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere like they used to. Growing ocean acidity is slowing their ability to keep up as humans pump more and more ...
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• Confirmed: Oceans Absorbing Less CO2 - First Year-by-Year Study Goes Back to 1765

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 720
  photo: Shayne Kaye via flickr. The first year-by-year study of the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the worlds oceans since the industrial revolution confirms a disturbing trend: Oceans are struggling to keep up with all the carbon humans are spewing into the atmosphere, with the proportion of emissions ...
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• Confirmed: Oceans Absorbing Less CO2 - First Year-by-Year Study Goes Back to 1765

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 720
  photo: Shayne Kaye via flickr. The first year-by-year study of the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the worlds oceans since the industrial revolution confirms a disturbing trend: Oceans are struggling to keep up with all the carbon humans are spewing into the atmosphere, with the proportion of emissions ...
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• Offset Your Infidelity

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: blue marble — Authority: 137
  Do you have difficulty being faithful? Fear not: CheatNeutral allows you to offset your infidelity by paying another couple not to cheat. With just a few easy payments, you can assuage you guilt and continue your meandering ways. Sound crazy? Thats because the "service" is an elaborate satire of carbon offsets, ...
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• Oceans ability to sequester carbon diminishing

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  A new study—the first of its kind—has completed an annual accounting of the oceans intake of carbon over the past 250 years, and the news is troubling. According to the study, published in Nature , the oceans ability to sequester carbon is struggling to keep-up with mankinds ever-growing emissions. Since 2000 ...
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• Record year for CO2 emissions, even with economic slowdown

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  8.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide was emitted into the earths atmosphere in 2008, a growth of 2 percent despite the economic crisis. This averages out to each person contributing a record high of 1.3 tons of carbon, according to a report in the journal Nature Science . While the global recession slowed the growth of ...
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• Terrestrial sequestration: Notes from the Regional Carbon Sequestration Conference

  
  Behind the Plug — Authority: 127
  This is the first in a series of posts from ACCCE’s National Communications Director, Steve Gates, who is attending the Regional Carbon Sequestration Conference underway in Pittsburgh, Penn. Whether you’ve heard it here or elsewhere, carbon capture and sequestration, or...
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• Kleiner Perkins’ Ellen Pao on Opportunities in Greentech Investing

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 712
  people , cleantech , VC Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: I had an opportunity to sit down recently (along with several other journalists) for an informal chat with Ellen Pao, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a member of the famed Menlo Park, CA, venture firm’s GreenTech investment team. ...
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• Mangroves & Coastal Wetlands Store 50 Times More Carbon Than Tropical Forests by Area

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 720
  Mangrove photo: Ken Funakoshi via flickr. More and more research has been coming out recently on how much carbon is stored in different ecosystems . The latest is from an IUCN report (via Mongabay ) which shows that coastal habitats store up to 50 times more carbon in their soils by area than tropical forests, ...
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• Mangroves & Coastal Wetlands Store 50 Times More Carbon Than Tropical Forests by Area

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 720
  Mangrove photo: Ken Funakoshi via flickr. More and more research has been coming out recently on how much carbon is stored in different ecosystems . The latest is from an IUCN report (via Mongabay ) which shows that coastal habitats store up to 50 times more carbon in their soils by area than tropical forests, ...
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• Coastal habitats may sequester 50 times more carbon than tropical forests by area

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Highly endangered coastal habitats are incredibly effective in sequestering carbon and locking it away in soil, according to a new paper in a report by the IUCN. The paper attests that coastal habitats—such as mangroves, sea grasses, and salt marhses—sequester as much as 50 times the amount of carbon in their soil ...
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• Peeing On The Compost Pile - When I first saw this on DIGG I thought it was a grab for headlines Butt

  
  Energy Tough Love Blog — Authority: 126
  It’s Jam Band Friday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmuIkJtL42g It really is something that some people suggest you do. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/8357134.stm   Pee to help make your garden grow The “pee bale” is only in use out of visitor hours ...
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• Banker Seeks to Put a Price on Nature

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 743
  A new study suggests that in the battle against climate change, conserved natural resources should be given a price.
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• Cool Green Morning: Friday, November 13

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 535
  Feeling unlucky this Friday the 13th? Fortify yourself with the latest in green news — recycled diapers, undersea gliders, a historic comeback and a new way to shut up those global warming skeptics close to you (speaking of superstitious…) So you’re at a family gathering, arguing with Uncle Climate Denier ...
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• Canada’s boreal forest top-rated carbon warehouse

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 483
  The Carbon the World Forgot — the boreal forest- “The boreal forest stores more carbon than any land-based ecosystem on the planet, according to a new report that says the Amazon is no match for Canada’s boggy bush.” It turns out that a major reason is all peat under the trees. Too many carbon sequestration ...
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• New report: boreal forests contain more carbon than tropical forest per hectare

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  A new report states that boreal forests store nearly twice as much carbon as tropical forests per hectare: a fact which researchers say should make the conservation of boreal forests as important as tropical in climate change negotiations. The report from the Canadian Boreal Initiative and the Boreal Songbird ...
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• Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Meeting this week in Merida, Mexico, the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD9) has released a declaration that calls for increasing wilderness protections in an effort to mitigate climate change. The declaration, which is signed by a number of influential organizations, argues that wilderness areas—both terrestrial ...
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• New System Using Microbes to Convert CO2 to Biofuels in a Single-Step Process

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 138
  These microbes feed on solar power and synthesize both the alkane and olefin molecules. Although the hydrocarbon fuels have only been produced in lab quantities, the company plans a pilot demonstration for 2011.
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