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Insight: can afforestation mitigate climate change?

Feb 3, 2012

Establishing new forests could benefit drought-threatened regions

Location key to calculating biofuel carbon footprint

Feb 2, 2012

Perennial grass emissions depend on where crop is grown and how it's processed

World's giant trees are dying off rapidly, studies show

Feb 1, 2012

Ecological 'kings of the jungle' being toppled by forest fragmentation, severe drought and new pests and diseases (from the Guardian)

Insight: Siberian agriculture could benefit from climate change

Jan 31, 2012

At least half central Siberia could become suitable for farming as climate warms

Are China's greens set to turn to brown?

Jan 30, 2012

Boom in northern vegetation growth since 1980s may be slowing as climate dries

Insight: grassland invasion in California transfers carbon to atmosphere

Jan 27, 2012

Invasive species contribute to climate change by reducing carbon accumulation in soil and increasing microbial respiration

Conserving biodiversity hotspots 'could bring world's poor $500 bn a year'

Jan 27, 2012

Study puts economic value on the indirect ecosystem services provided by the world's poorest people (from the Guardian)

Soil conservation 'flicks the dust switch'

Jan 26, 2012

Measures to prevent erosion in the Canadian Prairies appear to be working

'Bicycle pump' to turn wave power into clean energy

Jan 25, 2012

Searaser device that pumps saltwater to an onshore generator has been tested in prototype and praised by ministers (from the Guardian)

Climate change not linked to violent conflict

Jan 24, 2012

Study failed to find direct causal relationship

Insight: tree-ring maximum density offers promise as Alaskan climate record

Jan 23, 2012

Tree-ring density data can track summer temperature fluctuations and avoid the "divergence problem"

Insight: rise in Arctic shrubs likely to increase vulnerability of permafrost

Jan 23, 2012

Shading effect likely to be over-ruled by decrease in surface reflectivity

GM microbe breakthrough paves way for large-scale seaweed farming for biofuels

Jan 20, 2012 1 comment

Scientists have created a genetically engineered microbe that turns the algae into low-carbon biofuel, but must make the technique commercially viable (from the Guardian)

Migration can boost social resilience to environmental change

Jan 19, 2012

Effects on soil and water conservation practices as yet unclear

Nanotube bundles could boost solar cells

Jan 19, 2012

Material performs the two important steps for generating current

Cargo boat and US navy ship powered by algal oil in marine fuel trials

Jan 18, 2012

Substituting biofuel for bunker fuel may bring about revolution in world's shipping fleets (from the Guardian)

More intensive oil-palm farming may not spare rainforest

Jan 17, 2012 1 comment

High-yield oil palm plantations tend to take up more forested land in the Peruvian Amazon than lower-yield farms

Insight: climate change likely to increase isolation of dead zones

Jan 16, 2012

Models help predict future of oceanic oxygen minimum zones

African thunderstorms show up in Scotland