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Study: Crop relocation can help buffer US agriculture from climate change but southern states may face massive loss of productive land

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Projected extreme temperatures under climate change are predicted to reduce average yields for several of the United States’ major crops. These changes in productivity would drive farmers to change crops and move into new areas. Farmers are particularly exposed to the problems of climate change.

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Study: annual climate impact of wild pigs could be greater than 1.1M cars

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million cars, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers from The University of Queensland and The University of Canterbury. Their study appears in Global Change Biology. By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, wild pigs (feral swine), are releasing around 4.9

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Vanderbilt meeting concludes time to begin developing climate change adaptation strategies for transportation sector

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The meeting was held in June at Vanderbilt University and was sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Transportation Research (VECTOR), Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment (VIEE) and the University of Memphis’ Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute.

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NOAA Awards $750K to Support Modeling Effects of Sea Level Rise in Northern Gulf of Mexico

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NOAA has awarded $750,000 for the first year of an anticipated $3 million research investment to develop the information and tools needed to plan for sea level rise and other consequences of climate change along more than 300 miles of the northern Gulf of Mexico’s shoreline. The study team, led by Scott Hagen, Ph.D.,

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DOE and USDA Select Projects for More Than $24M in Biomass Research and Development Grants

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Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) up to $933,883: to develop an analysis of the global impacts of second generation biofuels in the context of other energy technologies and alternative economic and climate change policy options. University of Minnesota (St. BIOFUELS DEVELOPMENT ANALYSIS. USDA Awards. DOE Awards.

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Study Finds Ozone, Nitrogen Change the Way Rising CO2 Affects Earths Water

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The researchers concluded that models of climate change may be underestimating how much water is likely to run off the land and back into the sea as atmospheric chemistry changes. Either way, water resource managers need more accurate runoff estimates to plan better for the changes. Benjamin Felzer, Lehigh University.

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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to estimate land use changes resulting from biofuels expansion has been roundly rejected by broad array of experts, including the author of the GREET lifecycle model, Department of Energy officials, university professors and others. Bringezu (eds) Biofuels: Environmental Consequences and Interactions with Changing Land Use.