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

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Plants consume carbon dioxide—a significant greenhouse gas—in the process of photosynthesis. 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. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge.

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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The SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) International Biofuels Project, has published the full proceedings of its Rapid Assessment workshop on the environmental effects of biofuel technologies, 22-25 September 2008. SCOPE is part of the International Council for Science. Menichetti and Otto.