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Fracking will blow UK carbon goals without stricter rules
2016-07-07 11:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Shale gas production will break the UKs climate change targets unless there is stricter regulation now, according to the governments official advisers. More action to cut carbon emissions in other areas would also be needed to cope with full-scale fracking, despite the government already struggling to meet existing commitments. But the government says it will take no regulatory action in response to the report from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), arguing that the current regime is...
Drought stalls tree growth and shuts down Amazon carbon sink, researchers find
2016-07-06 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A recent drought completely shut down the Amazon Basin's carbon sink, by killing trees and slowing their growth, a ground-breaking study led by researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Leeds has found. Previous research has suggested that the Amazon -the most extensive tropical forest on Earth and one of the "green lungs" of the planet -- may be gradually losing its capacity to take carbon from the atmosphere. This new study, the most extensive land-based study of the effect of drought on Amazonian...
California redwoods store more carbon than any other forests in the world, study finds
2016-07-06 15:05:47| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury News: California's ancient redwood forests aren't just majestic and among the oldest living things on Earth -- a new study finds they are a particularly potent weapon against global warming. The towering trees remove and store more carbon from the atmosphere per acre than any other forests on the planet, including tropical rain forests, researchers found in a discovery that could influence everything from logging rules to how parks are preserved as the state grapples with climate change. "The story...
Court decision on climate plan jolts carbon prices
2016-07-06 15:05:47| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: A temporary halt to the federal government's plan to cut electric power plant emissions has caused carbon prices in the Northeast's only cap-and-trade program to plummet, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Carbon prices in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, have fallen 40 percent since the Supreme Court's decision in February to stay the Clean Power Plan -- from their peak at $7.50 per metric ton of carbon dioxide in December to $4.53 per ton in June. RGGI is America's...
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Norway says could achieve full carbon capture and storage by 2022
2016-07-06 07:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: By 2022, Norway could realize every step in the development of a technology many see as critical to reducing global carbon emissions, carbon capture and storage (CCS), it said on Monday. Oslo said it could capture carbon dioxide from an industrial plant, transport it by ship and inject it into an empty North Sea oil and gas reservoir for 4.3 billion to 7.6 billion crowns ($915 million to $515 million) by 2022. If it goes ahead with the plan, it could help lower carbon emissions worldwide: the International...
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