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Humans Causing Erosion Comparable To World’s Largest Rivers And Glaciers

Kansas Electronics Recycling — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:09:00 +0000

A new study finds that large-scale farming projects can erode the Earth’s surface at rates comparable to those of the world’s largest rivers and glaciers.
Published online in the journal Nature Geoscience, the research offers stark evidence of how humans are reshaping the planet. It also finds that - contrary to previous scholarship - rivers are as powerful as glaciers at eroding landscapes.

Humans Causing Erosion Comparable To World’s Largest Rivers And Glaciers

Kansas Electronics Recycling — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:09:00 +0000

Methane Gas Could Increase From Oceanic Vents

Kansas Electronics Recycling — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:03:00 +0000

New MIT research by Denise Brehm, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy looked at the potential for a compound affect of warming global temperatures on the level of methane being released by oceanic vents.

The premise is that rising global temperatures could be accompanied by melting permafrost in arctic regions and that this could initiate the release of underground methane into the atmosphere. Once released, that methane gas would speed up global warming by trapping the Earth’s heat radiation about 20 times more efficiently than does the better-known greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.

Methane Gas Could Increase From Oceanic Vents

Kansas Electronics Recycling — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:03:00 +0000

Arctic Geological Record Correlates Warming to Man

Kansas Electronics Recycling — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:52:00 +0000

Long-term climate records from the Arctic provide strong new evidence that human-caused global warming can override Earth’s natural heating and cooling cycles, U.S. researchers reported this week in the journal Science.

Arctic Geological Record Correlates Warming to Man

Kansas Electronics Recycling — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:52:00 +0000

Iraq’s new war is a fight for water

Kansas Electronics Recycling — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:32:00 +0000

As bombs continue to tear apart its towns and villages, Iraq is now in the grip of an environmental crisis that experts and officials warn may do what decades of war have not been able to – destroy the country. The new war on Iraq, say some, “is a war of water”.

Ribbon Seal Protection Sought by Activists

Kansas Electronics Recycling — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:30:00 +0000

Ribbon seals should be listed as threatened or endangered because global warming is quickly melting sea ice, which the seals depend on for several months each year, two environmental groups said in a lawsuit filed against the federal government in San Francisco Thursday.

New permit for coal-fired power plant pleases both sides

Kansas Electronics Recycling — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:20:00 +0000

Both sides in a dispute over a coal-fired power plant in far Southwest Virginia said they were happy after the state issued a new permit for the plant yesterday.

Arctic Warming Overtakes 2,000 Years of Natural Cooling

Kansas Electronics Recycling — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:42:00 +0000

Arctic temperatures have been dropping for the last 2,000 years. Since 1900, temperature anomaly has turned positive, indicating temperatures started becoming warmer than the long term average, new research indicates. The study, which incorporates geologic records and computer simulations, provides new evidence that the Arctic would be cooling if not for greenhouse gas emissions that are overpowering natural climate patterns. The Summer temperature anomaly changed from about – 1 to + 1 which is a very large change.