Environmental
The Kelp Forest Array, located just offshore of Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station, will provide the power and real-time data access scientists need to monitor the effects of climate change on the California coast.
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new computational method for identifying candidate refrigerant fluids with low "global warming potential."
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Global climate change means that recently discovered ancient forests in Canada's extreme north could one day return, according to Alexandre Guertin-Pasquier of the University of Montreal's Department of Geography.
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Researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a new software that can simultaneously calculate the carbon footprints of thousands of products faster than ever before.
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Researchers from the University of Rochester and Texas A&M University have found that, over a period of five months after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, naturally-occurring bacteria removed at least 200,000 tons of oil and natural gas.
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A strip of glass covered in hairy nanoparticles can cheaply and conveniently measure mercury, which attacks the nervous system, and other toxic metals in fluids.
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Though there is enough power in the earth's winds to be a primary source of near-zero emission electric power for the world, large-scale high altitude wind power generation is unlikely to substantially affect climate.
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Many marine species will be harmed or won't survive if the levels of carbon dioxide continue to increase.
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Engineers at a company co-founded by a University of Texas at Dallas professor have identified a material that can reduce the pollution produced by vehicles that run on diesel fuel.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s new carbon cycling model could help scientists understand the role of soil in climate change.
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An international group of more than 30 researchers recently gave a score to every coastal nation on their contribution to the health of the world’s oceans....
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Algae could absorb pollution emissions at the source
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