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Nearly half of crucial planet stability systems compromised
Posted in Featured, Science on 18th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
Almost half of the processes that are crucial to maintaining the stability of the planet have become dangerously compromised by human activity.
Sea level rise accelerating more than once thought
Posted in Science on 15th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
The world's oceans are now rising far faster than they did in the past, a new study says.
Most fossil fuels 'unburnable' under 2C climate target
Posted in Featured, Science on 7th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
Most of the world's fossil fuel reserves will need to stay in the ground if dangerous global warming is to be avoided, modelling work suggests.
A new method to convert CO2 to a valuable organic compound
Posted in Featured, Science on 29th Dec, 2014
by Alex Muller
Humans are shifting the carbon cycle by adding more carbon dioxide and influencing nature's ability to remove the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.
Climate change could cost U.S. coasts $1 trillion by 2100
Posted in Business on 23rd Dec, 2014
by Alex Muller
Climate change will cost U.S. coastal areas twice what analysts had predicted, according to a new study.