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AP | Dec 17, 2013
Oceans cover 97 percent of the Earth’s surface, and act as an important carbon sink. However, each part of the ocean works in different ways to take up carbon from the atmosphere and store it. Two new studies shed light on the nuances how these processes work in the Arctic Ocean and coastal...
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Nature World News | Dec 06, 2013
The Arctic Ocean has has long been known as a carbon sink, but a new study suggests that while the frigid waters do store large quantities of carbon, parts of the ocean also emit atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Researchers from MIT constructed a model to simulate the effect of sea ice loss in...
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MIT News | Dec 04, 2013
Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office
For the past three decades, as the climate has warmed, the massive plates of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean have shrunk: In 2007, scientists observed nearly 50 percent less summer ice than had been seen in 1980.
Dramatic changes in ice cover have, in turn...
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The Energy Collective | Nov 26, 2013
Update 7:30pm, Saturday, November 23
Decisions have been adopted on the three major elements of COP19: Durban Platform, Loss and Damage, and institutional mechanisms for finance.
Update 4:11pm, Saturday, November 23
The decision of the Durban Platform was adopted and...
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The Energy Collective | Nov 18, 2013
We are heading into the second week of UN climate negotiations in Warsaw (refered to as COP 19), where 194 countries are busy laying the groundwork for an international treaty hopefully to be concluded by 2015. Created under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC...
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MIT News | Nov 15, 2013
Watch video from the conference here: www.climatecolab.org/conference2013/virtually
As international climate negotiators meet this month for the 19th meeting of the UN Conference of Parties (COP19), there’s an increasing...
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MIT News | Nov 15, 2013
In deciding how best to meet the world’s growing needs for energy, the answers depend crucially on how the question is framed. Looking for the most cost-effective path provides one set of answers; including the need to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions gives a different picture. Adding the need...
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Cargill | Nov 13, 2013
MIT students and faculty interested in climate change’s impact on agriculture and food production gathered on the University’s campus Tuesday to hear a half-day of dialogue in a Food Symposium sponsored by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. In his keynote address,...
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ClimateWire | Nov 06, 2013
Julia Pyper, E&E reporter
Published: Monday, November 5, 2013
Targets set in China's latest five-year plan aimed at reducing harmful air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels will result in unintended reductions in carbon dioxide emissions that exceed the country's...
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CNN | Nov 03, 2013
Editor's note: Climate and energy scientists James Hansen, Ken Caldeira, Kerry Emanuel and Tom Wigley released an open letter Sunday calling on world leaders to support development of safer nuclear power systems.
(CNN) -- To those influencing environmental policy...