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Biochar – a burning issue Jun 10, 2009 2 comments

Success of carbon-fixing technique depends on understanding how it works and perhaps even creating designer biochars, reports Vanessa Spedding

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Deforestation "boom and bust" leaves humans no better off

Rainforest removal wrecks ecosystem without offering long-term human gain

Looking for alternative solar materials

Metal sulphides could offer cheaper electricity than today's silicon

Concentrating solar power is ripe for exploitation

Barriers now political not engineering, finds report

Bioelectricity saves water over biofuels

Using whole plant to create heat or power gives more efficient water footprint

British Climate Change Act doomed to failure

Goals of 80% emissions cuts by 2050 and 34% by 2022 too ambitious, says study

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Mapping wet landscapes in more detail

Technique could aid management without disturbing ecosystems

Study examines nanoparticle uptake in marine ecosystems

Clams and biofilms accumulate the most nanoparticles by mass in test system

Galactic link to climate change in doubt

Sun's passage through spiral arms not correlated with climate change, says new research

Ocean carbon pump in past limited by phosphorus

Study of Eastern Equatorial Pacific could help predict future climate change

Extraterrestrial team challenges palaeoclimatologists

Question raised about past atmospheric pressure levels

Role of HFCs in climate change likely to rise

Replacement ozone-safe gases for use in refrigeration are strong greenhouse gases

Climate impacts: down to the nitty-gritty

Joint Assembly focuses on regional climate change

Soils may emit more carbon dioxide as climate warms

Ecosystems like soil may not be able to acclimatise to warmer temperatures in the long term.

Earth's magnetic field perturbed by 'electric oceans', claims researcher

Is Atlantic Ocean circulation responsible for magnetic oddities in Europe?

Mystery OH source cleans up

Atmospheric clean-up of pollutants in China's Pearl River Delta is faster and produces less ozone than expected

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