Biochar Alone Could Offset 12% of All Human Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Study

Through application to soil in farmer’s fields, biochar both can help increase soil fertility and store carbon emissions. Photo: Feral Arts via flickr. More new info on the potential of biochar to help combat climate change: A study in the journal Nature Communications shows that up to 12% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans could be offset by p..

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Why Does Digg Hate Global Warming?

Image via Encefalus Any respectable blogger working today is at least aware of the many social media websites that contribute to our articles reaching a wider audience: Reddit , Yahoo Buzz, Stumble Upon, and, of course, the granddaddy of them all, Digg .

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The Global Cooling Myth Debunked (Video)

Image via Space4Case Why do some climate skeptics continue to claim that the earth is in the middle of a ‘global cooling trend’ despite the fact that every reliable source — NASA, NCAR, NOAA, etc — has shown temperature records proving otherwise? Why do climate deniers seem to revere satellite data? And why do some skeptics still blame global warming on solar activity?

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How to Turn a Toothbrush Into Gold

Image via Ellie Marie When I first started Terracycle, I spent a lot of my time explaining what upcycling was . It was this foreign concept whose name wasn’t on a lot of people’s radar. Now, a handful of years later, more than 10 million people are collecting the brand specific waste that we’ve used to make a range of products; it has become increasingly common and may some day be as conventional as recycling

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Black Carbon Pollution From Fossil Fuels Causes Twice the Warming As Burning Biomass

photo: Peter Gibbons via flickr More on the important role that black carbon soot plays in increasing global warming and what can be done about it: A new study published in Nature Geoscience found that the amount of solar radiation absorbed increased as the ratio of black carbon to sulphate rose.

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Black Carbon Pollution From Fossil Fuels Causes Twice the Warming As Burning Biomass

Utilities Try to Weasel Out of Pollution Controls – By Supporting Climate Action?

Photo via Mink Baby With all of the jostling around the plans for energy reform, it can be hard to keep track of what exactly is going on: With the competing pieces of legislation, the Kerry-Lieberman bill on the wane, and mixed signals from the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, energy reform has been in flux so long that the details can seem like a wash.

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China’s Carbon Emissions Need to Peak by 2020 for World to Meet Global Reduction Goals: IEA

photo: Scott Chang With China’s leading the globe in national carbon emissions, and per capita emissions now being higher than those in France, this is all the more poignant: Reuters reports that the head of the

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Best of Inhabitat: Inhabitat’s Spring Greening Contest Winners on Sale!

If you’re a green design aficionado, you’ve probably seen lots of competitions showcasing cool eco-products, and you may have even thought to yourself “Aww man, I wish I could buy that.” Well here’s your chance! Inhabitat is auctioning off the winning products from their Spring Greening design competition that challenged people to turn ordinary household junk into useful and beautiful products, which means that you could actually own one of these one-of-a-kind, functional art pieces. Don’t miss your opportunity to bid on these..

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Climate Scientists Speak Out: "The Urgent Need to Act Cannot be Overstated"

Photo via Boston Politico , the right-leaning, beltway-insider political magazine, has run a must-read op-ed by four of the nation’s leading climate scientists . These four scientists have recently testified before Congress about the urgent need to act on climate change, and the piece explains why.

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Scrubbing CO2 From Atmosphere Could Be A Centuries-Long Commitment

photo: Sarah McD via flickr Regardless of what methods are used, from hard geoengineering artificial CO2 scrubbers to softer methods like reforestation projects , actively removing carbon from the atmosphere will likely require a decades or centuries-long commitment if it is to really reverse global wa… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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