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ARPA-E selects SwRI to create more effective burner to reduce methane emissions

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Burners currently used on the field commonly perform below target specifications, especially under crosswind conditions, which results in a significant portion of this powerful greenhouse gas escaping into the atmosphere. The three-year, $2.9-million The three-year, $2.9-million

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Study finds methane emissions from coal mines ~50% higher than previously thought

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The study is the first to attempt to account for methane escaping from abandoned mines. The team cites deeper mines, more abandoned mines, and a greater percentage of surface mines from which methane escapes more freely as reasons why. Under the same conditions, the amount of methane escaping from working mines would be cut in half.

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

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Their study appears in Global Change Biology. Feral swine are descendants of escaped or released pigs. The researchers used predictive population models coupled with advanced mapping techniques to estimate the climate damage wild pigs are causing across five continents.

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Wakeup! The Sea Level is Rising & Another Island Nation’s People Are About To Become Climate Change Refugees

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Here is why I spend all of my time working on climate change issues and why we are gathering on the beach here in Southern California on October 24 in Manhattan Beach for 350.org org International Day of Climate Action to demonstrate what sea level rise will do to us here on the West Coast. We know better.

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MIT Researchers Elucidate Model for Escape of Underground Methane in Frozen Regions; Current Rate of Escape May be Much Faster Than Earlier Believed

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gas hydrate accumulations in ocean sediments and permafrost—escapes. Their findings, published online 29 August in the AGU Journal of Geophysical Research , also suggest that methane trapped under the ocean may already be escaping through vents in the sea floor at a much faster rate than previously believed. Ruben Juanes.

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

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Much of the motivation behind building new rockets or developing colonies on Mars is wrapped up in the rhetoric of our warming planet being something to escape from. But we can change our attitudes. What's more, we are changing. Climate change is a great example.

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Study finds GHG methane offsets its warming ~30% and precipitation increase ~60% by short-wave absorption

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Robert Allen/UCR) Both types of energy—longwave (from Earth) and shortwave (from sun)—escape from the atmosphere more than they are absorbed into it. The atmosphere needs compensation for the escaped energy, which it gets from heat created as water vapor condenses into rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

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