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IBM study finds consumers very interested in alternative ownership models for cars, self-enabling vehicles
2016-01-12 17:55:35| Green Car Congress
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UK tree-planting push could offset farming footprint study
2016-01-12 13:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: British scientists have worked out how to turn agricultural land which currently produces 10% of the nations greenhouse gas emissions into a carbon sink that soaks up carbon dioxide. The answer is simple: take more land out of food production, restore natural habitats, and allow forests to grow again. If, in the next 35 years, the UK increased forest cover from 12% to 30%, and surrendered 700,000 hectares to revert to peat bog, that would be enough to meet government ambitions to reduce...
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Study emphasizes challenges faced marine organisms exposed to global change
2016-01-11 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The Pacific Ocean along the West Coast serves as a model for how other areas of the ocean could respond in coming decades as the climate warms and emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide increases. This region -- the coastal ocean stretching from British Columbia to Mexico -- provides an early warning signal of what to expect as ocean acidification continues and as low-oxygen zones expand. Now, a panel of scientists from California, Oregon and Washington has examined the dual impacts of...
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Giant icebergs fertilise the ocean, sucking carbon study
2016-01-11 17:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Icebergs that break off Antarctica could account for twice as much carbon dioxide stored in the Southern Ocean than previously believed, a study on Monday suggested. The drifting blocks sustain far greater amounts of phytoplankton -- which remove CO2 through photosynthesis -- in their trail as they melt, satellite imagery revealed. Icebergs at least 18 km (11.2 miles) in length were found to fertilise the ocean for hundreds of kilometres and up to a month after passing, and are now thought...
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UK-wide carbon tax would have 'little impact' on consumers, study finds
2016-01-11 12:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A modest uniform carbon tax of 20 a tonne would have a negligible impact on consumer prices, according to a new study that attempts to make the case for wider adoption of carbon pricing policies. The study from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at London School of Economics and Political Science argues that applying the tax to all fuels would increase UK consumer prices by up to just 0.9 per cent,...
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