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Continued expansion of industrial-scale oil palm plantations on the island of Borneo will become a leading cause of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 unless strong forest and peatland protections are enacted and enforced, according to a National Academy of Sciences study.
The study, conducted by Yale and Stanford researchers, found that about two-thirds of lands outside of protected areas in the ... read more >>

Scientific research from the CSIRO reveals that changes in rainfall and evaporation in the world’s oceans are becoming more pronounced as global warming increases. ... read more >>

At least 126,000 sites across the U.S. have contaminated groundwater that requires remediation, and about 10 percent of these sites are considered "complex," meaning restoration is unlikely to be achieved in the next 50 to 100 years due to technological limitations, says a new report from the National Research Council. The report adds that the estimated cost of complete cleanup at these sites ran ... read more >>

The wide sampling of actual 2000 to 2010 changes shows that glacier acceleration across the ice sheet remains far below (the high-end) estimates, suggesting that sea level rise associated with Greenland glacier dynamics remains well below the low-end scenario at present. ... read more >>

About 93 percent of Florida’s population depends on groundwater for drinking water. Of the total freshwater used in Florida in 1995, 60 percent was groundwater. ... read more >>

A materials scientist at Michigan Technological University has discovered a chemical reaction that not only eats up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, it also creates something useful. And, by the way, it releases energy ... read more >>

outheastern Wisconsin is under a severe drought declaration, and that has farmers worried about how the lack of rain will affect their crops and livestock. Noffke Tree Farms Owner Kathy Gross said she’s worried as well, regarding what kind of impact the lack of rain will have on her Christmas tree business. ... read more >>

For a long time, oceanic iron fertilization was seen as a promising mechanism to combat global climate change. But then in 2009 a well-publicized study found that iron fertilization stored 80 times less carbon than expected, dampening enthusiasm and support around the geoengineering scheme. Now, however, the idea of fertilizing the ocean with iron may be back: a new study in Nature reports that i ... read more >>

Water is essential to life on earth. We need water to grow food, keep clean, provide power, control fire, and last but not least, we need it to stay alive! ... read more >>