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Climate Change and the Health of Children
Climate change is already affecting glacier melting, sea level rise, the range and distribution of plants and animals, tree blooming times, the length of growing seasons, freezing and thawing of rivers and lakes, and the extent of the permafrost. ...More…
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EIA - Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, and Energy
Many chemical compounds found in the Earth's atmosphere act as "greenhouse gases." These gases allow sunlight to enter the atmosphere freely. When sunlight strikes the Earth's surface, some of it is re-radiated back towards space as ...More…
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Basic Information / Climate Change / U.S. EPA
Environmental Protection Agency — The term climate change is often used interchangeably with the term global warming, but according to the National Academy of Sciences, "the phrase 'climate change' is growing in preferred use to 'global warming' because it helps ...More…
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First Wave / Science News
Science News — The presidents of two island nations draft escape plans, anticipating sea level rise The Maldives, a chain of some 1,200 islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, sits about 700 kilometers southwest of Sri Lanka and lures more than half a ...More…
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FOR KIDS: Getting The Dirt On Carbon / Science News
Science News — Each year, spring comes, plants bloom and the trees leaf out in their full green glory. Come fall, while diving into piles of fallen leaves, you may think the life cycle of the leaf has come to an end. Once a leaf hits the dirt, a new cycle ...More…
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Geophysical Research Letters
Science News — Boom in manufacturing and export, construction responsible for net increase The rapid growth of China's export-driven economy earlier this decade fueled a dramatic increase in carbon dioxide emissions that overwhelmed the country's substantial ...More…
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Urban Heat: Recycling Waste Heat / Science News
Science News — In the United States, only about one-eighth of the fuel people burn is converted into useful work. For a variety of reasons - losses during transmission of electrical power, simple laws of thermodynamics, friction and other inefficiencies - the ...More…
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SN: 5/10/08, p. 18
Science News — To reduce risks of severe damage from climate change, humans should burn no more than 1 trillion tons of carbon in total To prevent Earth's average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, several teams of ...More…
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On Federal Science - And Science Spending / Science News
Science News — Here are a few snippets from presentations at the Forum on Science and Technology Policy, today - an annual event sponsored by theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science. U.N. climate change negotiations will take place later this ...More…
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Obama Pledges 3 Percent Of GDP For Research / Science News
Science News — President Obama addressed the National Academy of Sciences and other dignitaries this morning with a list of new pledges for initiatives to boost science and engineering research. Below: a highlight of those mentioned in his 9 a.m. EDT talk: The ...More…
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EPA Says Greenhouse Gases 'endanger' Health / Science News
Science News — The Environmental Protection Agency issued a landmark ruling today. It said that "greenhouse gases contribute to air pollution ... The greenhouse gases that are responsible for it endanger public health and welfare within the meaning of the Clean ...More…
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Science Stimulus / Science News
Science News — Researchers look to the new administration to bring fresh perspectives to health, energy, climate policy and science funding Barack Obama has proven to be an impresario at selling new policies - and at selling himself as the best man to implement ...More…