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• Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Trends — 1990, 2000, 2008

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  Overall, global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels increased 29% between 2000 and 2008 and 41% from 1990-2008, and the current concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is now at its highest in at least 2 million years, according to a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience . The new report published this week by an ...
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• Sustainable Farming May Help Maintain Healthy Climate (Science Daily / DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at : Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091119193816.htmSustainable Farming May Help Maintain Healthy ClimateScienceDaily (Nov. 20, 2009) — Sustainable farming, initially adopted to preserve soil quality for future generations, may also play a role in maintaining a healthy climate, ...
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• Oceans May Trap more Carbon than Forests

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 630
  Marine ecosystems including seagrass meadows, mangroves and salt marshes have a much greater capacity to trap carbon than land carbon sinks such as forests, according to a report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The organization believes ocean ecosystems are essential to combating global ...
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• Green Heating and Cooling Technology Turns Carbon from Eco-Villain to Hero (Science Daily / Univ. Warwick)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at : Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091111111257.htmGreen Heating and Cooling Technology Turns Carbon from Eco-Villain to HeroScienceDaily (Nov. 14, 2009) — Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a ...
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• Controversial New Climate Change Data: Is Earths Capacity To Absorb CO2 Much Greater Than Expected?

  
  SciNewsBlog — Authority: 136
  Controversial New Climate Change Data: Is Earths Capacity To Absorb CO2 Much Greater Than Expected? ScienceDaily (Nov. 11, 2009) — New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide ...
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• Cyanobacteria and carbon sequestration (Green living tips)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at : Green living tipshttp://www.greenlivingtips.com/blogs/448/Cyanobacteria-and-carbon-sequestration.htmlCyanobacteria and carbon sequestrationBy Green Living Tips | Published  11/9/2009Cyanobacteria are more commonly known as blue-green algae. Usually when we hear blue-green algae being mentioned, it ...
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• WAR AGAINST HUNGER, GLOBAL WARMING CAN BE WON ON FARMLANDS (UNNews)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at : UNNewsWAR AGAINST HUNGER, GLOBAL WARMING CAN BE WON ON FARMLANDS; UN REPORTNew York, Nov  5 2009 11:05AMThe world’s farmlands can be the frontline for the fight against the impact of climate change and the battle to feed the mounting global population, according to a new ...
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• Science Video : Use Algae To Capture Carbon Dioxide (Science Daily)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at : Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0407-possible_fix_for_global_warming.htmPossible Fix For Global Warming?Environmental Engineers Use Algae To Capture Carbon DioxideApril 1, 2007 — Engineers have designed a simple, sustainable and natural carbon sequestration solution using algae. A team ...
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• Ornstein Sahara Afforestation: This Green says YES

  
  Mabinogogiblog — Authority: 137
  Leonard Ornstein is all over the news today, with his plan to reforest the Sahara using desalination. There are predictable knee-jerk rejections of the plan, but it is certainly worth piloting, as an experiment. I have been advocating this for a couple of years now. Ornsteins proposal to use Eucalyptus is ...
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• Will Brazils Greening Efforts Displace Indigenous Populations?

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: blue marble — Authority: 137
  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva earlier this month announced that Brazil will cut its deforestation rate by 80 percent by 2020, a move he said would reduce the countrys carbon dioxide emissions by 4.8 billion tonnes. Thats significant, especially given that Brazil is one of the biggest contributors to ...
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• Canadian Boreal Forests Emerge As Viable Carbon Sink

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 630
  In northern Canada, an area twice the size of California stores the equivalent of 27 years worth of global greenhouse gas emissions. Now, Canadian provinces and other groups are taking steps to preserve the expansive boreal forest.Some groups are planning to sell carbon offsets in exchange for protecting the forests. ...
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• Simple Measures Can Yield Big Greenhouse Gas Cuts (Science Daily)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at : Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091026152944.htmSimple Measures Can Yield Big Greenhouse Gas Cuts, Scientists SayScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2009) — New technologies and policies that save energy, remove atmospheric carbon and limit greenhouse gas emissions are needed to fight global ...
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• Nuclear energy becomes pivotal in climate debate

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 131
  That’s a newspaper’s hedline, not mine. The debate is long over with. It is happening and human activity is to blame. Check out this newspaper article regarding the newfound interest in nuclear energy.
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• Desertification and Carbon Dioxide (The Majlis)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 150
  Read at :http://www.themajlis.org/2009/10/21/part-two-desertification-and-carbon-dioxideBlogging the Arab Human Development ReportEvan Hill | October 21, 2009 4:53 PMPart Two: Desertification and Carbon DioxideThis entry is part of an ongoing series, Blogging the Arab Human Development Report.In today’s edition, we ...
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• TWS chief urges carbon reserves in U.S. forests

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 131
  That’s the idea espoused by Wilderness Society chief William Meadows at a recent event hosted by the Frank Church center at Boise State University. Read about it here .
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