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Sweet Diesel: Discovery Resurrects Process to Convert Sugar Directly to Diesel
November 7, 2012 — Nearly 100 years ago, a chemist discovered that Clostridium bacteria efficiently ferment sugar or starch into alcohols and acetone. Cheap fossil fuels made the process commercially unviable, but it ... > full storyMore: -
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New Method Could Help Communities Plan for Climate Risk
November 7, 2012 — Researchers have developed a new tool to help policymakers, city planners and others see the possible local effects of climate ... > full story -
Earth on Acid: Present & Future of Global Acidification
November 6, 2012 — Climate change and extreme weather events grab the headlines, but there is another, lesser known, global change underway on land, in the seas, and in the air: ... > full story -
Indian Monsoon Failure More Frequent With Global Warming, Research Suggests
November 5, 2012 — Global warming could cause frequent and severe failures of the Indian summer monsoon in the next two centuries, new research ... > full story -
Carbon Buried in the Soil Rises Again
November 5, 2012 — A team of researchers estimated that roughly half of the carbon buried in soil by erosion will be re-released into the atmosphere within about 500 years, and possibly faster due to climate ... > full story -
Warming Temperatures Cause Aquatic Animals to Shrink the Most
November 5, 2012 — Warmer temperatures cause greater reduction in the adult sizes of aquatic animals than in land-dwellers in a new ... > full story -
Climate Modeler Identifies Trigger for Earth's Last Big Freeze
November 5, 2012 — For more than 30 years, climate scientists have debated whether flood waters from melting of the enormous Laurentide Ice Sheet, which ushered in the last major cold episode on Earth about 12,900 ... > full story -
Massive Volcanic Eruption Puts Past Climate and People in Perspective
November 5, 2012 — The largest volcanic eruption on Earth in the past millions of years took place in Indonesia 74,000 years ago and researchers can now link the colossal eruption with the global climate and the ... > full story -
Hydro-Fracking: Fact Vs. Fiction
November 5, 2012 — In communities across the US, people are hearing more and more about a controversial oil and gas extraction technique called hydraulic fracturing – aka, hydro-fracking. Controversies pivot on ... > full story -
After Long-Ago Mass Extinction, Global Warming Hindered Species' Recovery
November 5, 2012 — Researchers have discovered why plants and animals had a hard time recovering from the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history 250 million years ago. The reason: global ... > full story
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