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Researchers have found that streams in the United States contain significant amounts of carbon and that streams play a more important role in the carbon cycle than previously believed.
Tags: ads-by-google, afghanistan, california, carbon, Geology.com, hawaii, Jobs, marcellus-shale, middle-east, rivers, united, virginiaScientists can now remotely monitor the ocean ’s changing chemistry with help from some of the five-foot-tall Argo floats that drift with deep ocean currents and transmit data via satellite back to land.
Tags: atlantic, carbon, carbon-dioxide, climate-change, earth, indian, Jobs, mexico, virginiaThe American Chemical Society has an article about the Deep Carbon Observatory , a research effort to study Earth’s deep carbon cycle, and how DCO research can apply to energy , manufacturing, biology and even astronomy .
Tags: astronomy, california, carbon, earth, earth's interior, earthquakes, geology, Geology.com, geophysics, mexico, middle-east, satellite images, united-states, washingtonIf you enjoy charts and calculations related to energy then you might like a new analysis posted on the Energy Information Administration website titled: U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions , 2010 . “This analysis examines the level and drivers of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 2010.” Quoted from the EIA analysis.
Tags: ads-by-google, california, carbon, carbon-dioxide, energy, Geology.com, Jobs, marcellus-shale, university, waterExperiments in Ohio are determining the potential of carbon dioxide injection to enhance production from low-yield oil wells. The state’s coal -fired power plants produce enormous amounts of carbon dioxide that is currently released into the atmosphere because it can not be transported economically to oil production sites.
Tags: california, carbon, climate, climate-change, coal, earth, Geology.com, geophysics, marcellus-shale, middle-east, pennsylvania, university“Salinity – the concentration of salt – on the ocean surface is a key missing puzzle piece in satellite studies of Earth that will improve our understanding of how the ocean and atmosphere are coupled and work in tandem to affect our climate.” Quoted from the NASA press release.
Tags: california, carbon, climate, earth, mexico, middle-east, NASA, satellite, satellite imagesA study of carbon-14 in the shells of fossil foraminifera living at the end of the last ice age, about 18,000 years ago, suggests an unusual release of carbon dioxide from the Southern Ocean at that time.
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