Green Car Congress
MAY 15, 2011
A new set of buoys in Alaska waters will help scientists understand how climate change may be affecting the pH level of northern seas. University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) researchers placed the first buoy last month. These factors increase the transport of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into surface waters.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 17, 2009
Widespread climate-related impacts are occurring now in the US and are expected to increase. A product of the interagency US Global Change Research Program, the 190-page report was commissioned in 2007 and completed this spring. It is clear that climate change is happening now. Source: USGCRP. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
MAY 8, 2013
Methane hydrate—molecules of natural gas trapped in an ice-like cage of water molecules—represents a potentially vast methane resource for both the United States and the world. DOE-Alaska cooperation on unconventional resources. Response of Gas Hydrate Reservoirs to Induced Change. —DE-FOA-0000891. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
APRIL 19, 2011
A new study led by Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology has found that the expansion of sugarcane crop in Brazil in areas previously occupied by other Brazilian crops cools the local climate. The study is published in the second issue of Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/nclimate1067.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 5, 2010
A section of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane (CH 4 ) is showing signs of instability and widespread venting of the gas, according to the findings of an international research team led by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov. Natalia Shakhova.
Electric Auto Association
MAY 3, 2021
The EVEVA: Climate change and Al Gore’s influence Chapter Vice-President Al LePage, the executive director of an Oregon nonprofit trail organization, was jolted awake to the threat of climate change with the release of the UN's IPCC Climate Report in 2018. Charlie is just phenomenal.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 21, 2010
Based on ship-based experiments conducted in the subarctic Pacific Ocean near the Gulf of Alaska, the researchers found that iron enrichment increased the concentration of the toxin produced by each Pseudo-nitzchia single-celled organism.
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