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• Intensive Land-Management Leaves Europe Without Carbon Sinks

  
  The X-Journals — Authority: 142
  A new calculation of Europe’s greenhouse gas balance shows that emissions of methane and nitrous oxide tip the balance and eliminate Europe’s terrestrial sink of greenhouse-gases.
  5 days ago

• Refuse Allegiance to Coal — End the Use of Coal

  
  Civilianism News — Authority: 131
  Its time to quit smoking. Continued coal use spells a death sentence for life on the planet.  Carbon capture and storage as a way to continue to use coal is a fairy tale, a myth, a joke. Chris Hedges is a long-time independent journalist.  He’s someone who complains about most everything, and I often find his ...
  5 days ago

• 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 ...
  6 days ago

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

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Fossil Fuel Emissions Rose 29% since 2000

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 616
  A report (PDF) by scientists shows that emissions are outpacing the ability of ocean and land carbon sinks to soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). They are concerned that if natural sinks can’t keep pace with the increased CO2 emission ...
  1 week ago

• Carbon keeps rising while Earth absorbs less, study finds

  
  Greenbang — Authority: 436
  New research from an international team of scientists has found that the Earth’s natural carbon sinks could be becoming less efficient at absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere . The study is published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience . The research team, working under the umbrella of the Global ...
  1 week ago

• Have we started to fill our carbon sinks?

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 744
  Each year, human beings put vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through process like the combustion of fossil fuels or clearing land for agriculture. Thankfully, the majority of it doesnt stay there, as there are a number of significant carbon sinks that pull somewhere around 60 percent of human ...
  1 week ago

• Breaking: Earth might be able to absorb more CO2 than thought

  
  Greenbang — Authority: 436
  The Earth’s ecosystems and oceans might have a much greater capacity for absorbing carbon dioxide than has previously been thought , according to new research from the University of Bristol. That finding runs contrary to a significant body of science that predicts the planet’s ability to take up carbon dioxide ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oceana

  
  Bleeding edge blog — Authority: 131
  Sam Waterston is an award-winning stage, film and television actor who is best known for his long-running role as prosecutor Jack McCoy on “Law & Order.” He is a member of the board of directors of Oceana, a nonprofit organization that seeks to protect the world’s oceans by opposing overfishing and pollution ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nuclear energy becomes pivotal in climate debate

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 130
  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.
  4 weeks ago

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