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Carbon Capture and Storage Likely To Cause Earthquakes, Trigger Leaks
Capturing carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants and pumping it deep underground for permanent storage has been billed as a way to curtail global warming, but some scientists are raising new concerns that storing carbon dioxide that way could cause … Continue reading
Criminals Are Destroying Important Carbon Storage Systems
Instead of buying illegal wood, we should prevent illegal loggers from destroying the remaining rainforests that function as important climate change buffers by storing carbon, writes William Laurance at the Canberra Times, an Australian newspaper. The 2012 World Bank report, … Continue reading
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Forests Create Rain – New Biotic Pump Theory
Published in 2007 by two Russian physicists, the still little-known biotic pump theory postulates that forests create and control ocean-to-land winds, bringing moisture to terrestrial life, reports Rhett Butler at Mongabay. How? Winds tend to blow from areas of high … Continue reading
As Rainforest Roads Increase, Carbon Storage Systems Decrease
We live in an era of unprecedented road and highway expansion into many of the world’s last tropical wildernesses, from the Amazon to Borneo to the Congo Basin, reports William Laurance at Environment 360. Brazil is currently building 7,500 … Continue reading
Damaged Peatlands Big Source of Climate Changing CO2
Scientists have warned that damaged UK peatlands – areas formed over thousands of years from dead and decaying plants in waterlogged conditions – are a significant source of carbon dioxide, reports Andrew Bolger at the Financial Times of London. Peatlands … Continue reading
Salt Marshes Are Important Carbon Storage Systems – Study
Wetlands around the world are in danger of being drained for activities such as agriculture. Because little is known about their net emissions of greenhouse gases, it’s difficult to predict the effect of this drainage on climate. A recent Canadian … Continue reading
