Tag: carbon dioxide

Aging Skin May Be Worse For City Dwellers: Emerging Research Shows That Air Pollution May Be A Much Bigger Cause Than Previously Thought

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Aging Skin May Be Worse For City Dwellers: Emerging Research Shows That Air Pollution May Be A Much Bigger Cause Than Previously Thought
Air Pollution: It’s Not Just For The Lungs Anymore–New Research Shows That It May Be A Leading Cause Of Premature Aging Of The Skin When we think of massive megacities like Beijing, Mexico City and Rio De Janiero and the problems they face due to their size, most of us probably think of our lungs. The mind likely goes to images of traffic at a standstill, bemasked people enshrouded in a cottony fog that has nothing to do with natural weather patterns as they rush through the street trying to get to the fresher air of the indoors.… Read the rest

A Plan To Deal With Excess CO2 in the Environment: Scientists In Iceland Turn Co2 Into Rock In Almost No Time

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A Plan To Deal With Excess CO2 in the Environment: Scientists In Iceland Turn Co2 Into Rock In Almost No Time
Scientists in Iceland Turn CO2 Into Rock, May Herald A New Era In Combating CO2 in the Atmosphere And Thus Global Climate Change Scientists in Iceland may have stumbled on a method for storing CO2 underground in rock, in such a way that it is unlikely to escape at some point in the future In what many are hailing as a potential silver bullet to the problem of excess CO2 in the atmosphere that is driving global climate change, a project in Iceland known as CarbFix has been in the works since 2007 and is now bearing fruit.… Read the rest

New Environmental Threat: Ocean Dead Zones Threaten To Eradicate Oxygen

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New Environmental Threat: Ocean Dead Zones Threaten To Eradicate Oxygen
Ocean Dead Zones Much Worse Than Previously Thought–Vast Regions Devoid Of Life Could Soon Be The New Normal Stephen King wrote a novel called “The Dead Zone” in 1979, but the horrors he imagined are nothing compared to a new dead zone that scientists are only just now beginning to grapple with. These zones of death are areas of the ocean where the oxygen has been so depleted due to climate change and the warming of the water that life cannot continue to function there as it has for millions of years.… Read the rest

Oil Industry Has Known At Least Since The 1960s That Climate Change Was A Serious Threat

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Oil Industry Has Known At Least Since The 1960s That Climate Change Was A Serious Threat
Cover-Up: Oil Industry Docs Suppressed, Climate Change Problems Known Since 1960s A lot of things have happened to the US since 1968. We put a man on the moon, the Beatles broke up, we ended the Cold War, and we invaded Iraq. Twice. Oh yeah, and we were the biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions that raised the Earth’s temperature by a few critical degrees, hastening the dissolution of the icecaps, changing the weather patterns, and raising sea levels.… Read the rest