LiveScience Topics: Carbon Dioxide

More Carbon Dioxide News and Information

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  Seawater May Someday Power Jets

  The ocean may hold the largest source of power.

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  Catastrophic Climate Future: Are We That Stupid?

  Total carbon emissions give better estimate of peak warming.

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  Earth Checkup: 10 Health Status Signs

  A look at how Earth is fairing and what progress has been made to cure its ills.

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  Study: Biofuel Threatens Water Supplies

  Production of bioethanol uses up more water than previously though.

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  Signs of Spring on Mars

  A Martian orbiter spots the spring "thaw" on the red planet.

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  Wrinkle-Blasting Laser Treatments Soar

  A cosmetic surgery technique called laser resurfacing is soaring in popularity.

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  Growing Acid Problem Thins Shells of Ocean Creatures

  Study shows ocean acidification is affecting shell-building marine animals.

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  Earth's Highest Microbial Ecosystem Found

  Scientists discover thriving microbe community atop Andean volcano.

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  Future of the Ocean: Expanding Dead Zones

  As the ocean warms, areas of the ocean will become depleted in oxygen, threatening marine life.

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  Tree Deaths Double in Western U.S. Forests

  Monitoring of forest plots finds western tree death rates have doubled, likely due to regional warming.

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  Exoplanet Atmospheres Detected from Earth

  Ground-based telescope detect thermal emission from exoplanet atmosphere.

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  Hot Air? Google Searches Generate Greenhouse Gases

  Controversial calculation disputed by the search engine giant.

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  Future of Jumbo Squid Questioned

  Rising carbon dioxide levels and expanding ocean minimum zone in ocean could force squids out of habitat.

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  Carbon Dioxide Detected on Faraway World

  Carbon dioxide, a potential fingerprint of life, has been discovered for the first time in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star.

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  World Needs a Backup Plan

  Leaders need an emergency backup plan if cuts in greenhouse gas emissions don't work.

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  The Carbon Footprint of Wine

  Bulk of wine's carbon footprint comes through transportation methods.

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  Typhoons Bury Carbon in Oceans

  Typhoon rains create runoff of carbon-rich sediment to ocean where carbon can be buried.

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  Arctic Grows Stormier

  Warming ocean waters increase Arctic storminess, speed sea ice movement, possibly impact climate.

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  Pollution Makes Oceans Noisier

  Increasing carbon dioxide levels making oceans more acidic, noisier.

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  New Thinking on When the Arctic Froze

  Arctic may have gotten ice sooner than previously thought, study suggests.

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  Wind and Snow Do Strange Things on Mars

  Martian weather is to blame for a lopsided polar cap.