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Geological Storage of CO2 Emissions Only Viable if Leakage Kept to Less Than 1% in 1000 Years

photo: Alex Proimos via flickr Even with all the serious doubts about its scalability or financial viability, carbon capture and storage repeatedly continues to get talked up as a key part of a future low-carbon energy economy. Adding to the practical issues swirling around CCS is this bit, from research just published in Nature Geoscience

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Geological Storage of CO2 Emissions Only Viable if Leakage Kept to Less Than 1% in 1000 Years

Meat & Dairy Matter – Changing Consumer Choices Can Cut Methane & Nitrous Oxide Emissions 84%

photo: Tambako the Jaguar via flickr One more piece of information supporting how important your personal dietary choices are in dealing with climate change: New research published in the journal Global Environmental Change shows that by reducing the amount of meat and dairy eaten and changing… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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US Navy Vice Admiral: Climate Change is a Threat Multiplier (Video)

Photo via Nature Blog By now, it’s become quite clear that climate change presents a number of threats to life on Earth. So while manipulative politicians and skeptical media outlets continue to voice dissent, institutions like the US military are already in the process of planning, with the aid of climate scientists, how to cope with global war… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Scientists Predict Continued Rapid Summer Arctic Sea Ice Decline – But No New Record

image: Klimacampus Though currently the extent of Arctic sea ice in lower than it was back in 2007, when the current record minimum was set, two different groups of German scientists’ forecasts show continued rapid decline but no new record to be set by this September. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sprawling US Cities Heating Twice as Fast as Dense Ones

photo: Matt Lemmon via flickr It may not offer relief from the sweat dripping down your forehead in the midst of a heatwave as you walk down the street, but you can take comfort that it’s not all in your head. Heatwaves are indeed getting more pronounced. As Our Amazing Planet reports, sprawling cities have seen the

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Sprawling US Cities Heating Twice as Fast as Dense Ones

97% of Scientists Still Agree: Man is Causing Climate Change

Photo via Ale1980Italy A new study has once again confirmed what we already knew — that the vast, vast majority of scientists working in the field are convinced by the evidence that there is human-induced climate change. This latest analysis is one of the largest surveys yet attempted, and examines 1,372 known working climate researchers. The result is similar to previous studies: 97-98% of the scientists agree that there is ample evidence that hu… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Architects Building Small Refuges in Small Spaces

Images by B. Alter: Studio Mumbai Architects, In-Between Architecture Architects love models and floor plans and drawings of their buildings, but most members of the public do not. They are too hard for the average person to visualize. In a delightful switch, the Victoria & Albert Museum invited seven architects to construct small buildings amidst the displays in the museum. The V&A is a wonderful old Victorian museum with treasures in every nook and cranny. Called 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces , the architects have squeezed their little buildings in amon… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Sea Sick’ Author Wins Grantham Prize, the First for a Book

Courtesy Metcalf Institute . Seeing an environmental journalist in the wild can be akin to seeing a dinosaur. The profession has taken some hits in recent years , with a decline in newspapers and reporting jobs in general. The reporters that remain seem to be getting stronger, though. They’re adapting, and hopefully steering clear of asteroids . Alanna Mitchell, for instance, was the science and environment reporter at… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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CO2 Linked To Ice Ages & Past Global Climate Changes

photo: Dominic Alves via flickr Taking a look back to past global climate changes, researchers led by Timothy Herbert of Brown University have determined that for at least the past 2.7 million years tropical temperatures have “changed in lockstep” with the cyclical spread and retreat of ice sheets, and that CO2 has been the main factor dictating global climate patterns. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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2010 So Far Has Been Hottest Year on Record: NOAA

photo: Tambako the Jaguar via flickr. Continuing the trend from the previous month, NOAA reports that May, the period from March to May, and from January to May all have had the hottest combined global land and ocean surface temperatures since records began in 1880. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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