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War, plague no match for deforestation in driving CO2 buildup

Dwarfing both of these events, however, has been the historical trend towards increasing deforestation, which over centuries has released vast amounts of…

Speeding up Mother Nature's very own CO2 mitigation process

Greg Rau, a senior scientist with the Institute of Marine Sciences at UC Santa Cruz and who also works in the Carbon Management Program at Lawrence Livermore…

VIMS team glides into polar research

Researcher Walker Smith of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, has been conducting shipboard studies of biological…

2010 – Statistical Tie for Warmest Year

2010 finishes in a statistical tie as the warmest year in the past 32Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decadeDecember temperatures…

Oil giant plans new platform near feeding ground of critically endangered whale

Only around 130 whales of the critically endangered Western population exist today, and their primary feeding habitat – off Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far…

NASA Satellites Capture a Stronger La Nina

A new Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2 satellite image of the Pacific Ocean that averaged 10 days of data was just released from NASA. The…

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