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| SCI | Rising Tide
It’s not the extra few feet of water that make sea level rise so dangerous. It’s the extra few feet during a storm during El Niño during high tide, say researchers.
Science | 21-Nov-2008
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| SCI | Freshwater Pollution Costs at Least $4.3 Billion Annually
Kansas State University researchers found that freshwater pollution by phosphorous and nitrogen costs government agencies, drinking water facilities and individual Americans at least $4.3 billion annually. Of that, they calculated that $44 million a year is spent just protecting aquatic species from nutrient pollution.
Environmental Science and Technology, 12-Nov-2008 | 21-Nov-2008
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| SCI | Climate Change May Boost Exposures to Harmful Pollutants
A review of studies projecting the impact of climate change on air quality, including effects on morbidity and mortality, indicates that adverse health effects will likely rise with changes in pollutant creation, transport, dispersion, and deposition. However, reducing greenhouse gas emissions could go far in mitigating adverse effects. These findings appear in the November 2008 issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP).
Environmental Health Perspectives, Nov-2008 | 21-Nov-2008
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| SCI | Engineers Study Fusion to Search for an Energy Solution
Engineers at UC San Diego's Center for Energy Research (CER) are working on some of the tough problems that stand in the way of efficient, economical, and environmentally friendly energy sources. | 21-Nov-2008
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| SCI | Engineers Devise News Strategies for Irrigating Farmland More Efficiently
As California’s population continues to grow in the coming decades, freshwater supplies to farms, homes and businesses are expected to decline. To help reduce the vast amount of water used for agriculture-which consumes about four times the fresh water of homes and businesses-researchers at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School are using sensor technologies to devise new strategies for irrigating farmland more efficiently. | 21-Nov-2008
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| SCI | More Variable and Uncertain Water Supply: Global Warming’s Wake-Up Call for the Southeastern U.S.
A new report from National Wildlife Federation offers the latest scientific research on global warming and water supplies, competition for resources, demographic factors, and how to better prepare for managing the region’s water availability challenges. | 21-Nov-2008
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| SCI | Earthworms’ Underground Invasion Threatens Forest Sustainability
Forests that evolved without native earthworms now face the invasion of European earthworms from agriculture and fishing. Ripple effects could include carbon sequestration & climate change. | 21-Nov-2008
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| SCI | Campus Considering Novel Ways to Shrink Carbon Footprint
College students notoriously shun early morning, evening and Friday classes, but what if a change in schedules reduced a university’s carbon footprint? | 21-Nov-2008
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| SCI | Global Warming Predictions Are Overestimated, Suggests Study on Black Carbon
A detailed analysis of black carbon -- the residue of burned organic matter -- in computer climate models suggests that those models may be overestimating global warming predictions.
Nature Geoscience | 21-Nov-2008
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| SCI | From Deep in Lake Ontario, Comes a Natural Coolant
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry researchers are studying a plan that would pump water from deep in Lake Ontario into buildings 30 miles away in Syracuse, providing environmentally friendly cooling for city buildings.
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