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Scientific American February 2009 Charles Q. Choi	Ocean Acidification from CO 2 Is Happening Faster Than Thought Carbon dioxide may be acidifying seawater faster than thought
Geotimes November 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Acid Rain Alters Coastal Waters Excess carbon dioxide, sulfur and nitrogen from fossil fuel burning, agricultural runoff and other human sources are changing ocean chemistry -- and that impact is especially pronounced along the coasts, new research suggests.
Geotimes July 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Ancient Ocean Burps A sediment core extracted from the ocean floor off the coast of Baja, Calif., indicates two "burps" of carbon dioxide were once released from a deep, stagnant part of the ocean.
Geotimes April 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Wallace Broecker: Changes in the Atmosphere An interview with an expert on issues of climate change about his experiences advising politicians about the consequences of climate change and his hopes for new technologies of carbon sequestration.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Sandra Upson	Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water.
Geotimes February 2007 Nicole Branan	Shifting Winds Shift Warming Trends? New model simulations indicate that a poleward shift in the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds could cause the Southern Ocean's carbon dioxide and heat uptake to increase by up to 20%.
Chemistry World October 7, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Ocean acidification threat to UK coral reefs The latest studies on ocean acidification indicate that it's not just tropical corals that are under threat from ocean acidification, but cold water corals too.
Smithsonian February 2004 Deborah Franklin	Gas Guzzlers New research shows how microscopic diatoms remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and may help keep the planet from overheating
Geotimes October 2006 Megan Sever	Giving Carbon a Deep-Sea Burial While many people are calling for an immediate reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, others are looking toward ways to dispose of the excess carbon dioxide. Burying the gas in sediments below the ocean could be a potential solution
Geotimes May 2004 Sara Pratt	Ocean Anoxia Researchers are using microfossils to date ocean anoxic events, or severe oxygen depletion in the ocean, back to 132 million years ago. The findings will open up several new avenues of inquiry including the impact of the global carbon cycle perturbation on the biosphere as a whole.
Chemistry World January 28, 2009 Nina Notman	Iron helps oceans capture more carbon A team of international scientists studying the role of iron in the storage of carbon under the ocean have confirmed that natural iron fertilisation increases the rate of carbon capture.
Chemistry World August 25, 2013 Daniel Johnson	Unconsidered chemistry could amplify global warming A link between the world's oceans' pH and climate change that has, until now, passed unnoticed could dramatically speed up global warming by lowering production of a smelly molecule, dimethyl sulfide, important for cloud formation.
Chemistry World September 27, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Scientists Uncover How Last Ice Age Ended Scientists have shown that the end of the last age 19,000 years ago began in the higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere before sweeping into the tropics.
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Carbon's Complicated River Ride Researchers recently found that carbon moves from the atmosphere, through trees, soil and water, and back into the atmosphere in fewer than five years, indicating that the landscape is not providing as much long-term storage of carbon dioxide as hoped.
Geotimes September 2004 Jay Chapman	Hurricanes' Green Thumb As coastal residents are geared up for this year's peak Atlantic hurricane season -- mid-August through October -- scientists are looking at past hurricanes to better understand what happens to the oceans in the wake of these whirlwind events.
Geotimes December 2006 Fred Schwab	Why Fester? Let's Sequester! Instead of looking toward another fossil fuel-based energy choice, scientists need to examine carbon dioxide sequestering, the capture and storage technology that removes anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Chemistry World November 19, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Watching carbon dioxide's globetrotting New high-resolution simulations depicting how local geography affects the transport of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere have been created by NASA.
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Katie Lian Hui Lim	Switching desalination plants from carbon dioxide source to sink A new process has been proposed to decompose waste desalination brine using solar energy that could allow desalination plants to act as a sink rather than a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and help to neutralize ocean acidity.
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever	Carbon Leaching Out of Siberian Peat New research is showing that as temperatures rise across the Arctic, carbon once locked up in permafrost soils may begin escaping into the area's waterways.
Chemistry World August 31, 2012 Simon Hadlington	'Ocean methane paradox' solved? Numerical simulation of methane production by methanogenic microorganisms suggests that up to 400 billion tonnes of methane could be sitting under the ice. If the ice sheet collapses due to a warming climate, this could release the gas, which in turn would increase warming, the researchers say.
Geotimes March 2003 S. Julio Friedmann	Storing Carbon in Earth Carbon sequestration is capturing carbon dioxide, either from the atmosphere or emission streams, and storing it in reservoirs, such as plants or soils. Carbon dioxide could be converted to solid chemicals or injected into the deep ocean. Though there are risks, the potential pay-off is enormous.
Popular Mechanics June 5, 2008 Bijal Trivedi	Hacking Earth Against Warming, Scientists Favor Fake Volcanoes As the Senate debates a controversial climate-change bill, meteorologists and economists alike say geoengineering solutions aren't so far-out anymore.
Popular Mechanics June 12, 2009 Jerry Beilinson	Climate Change Solutions: Live From World Science Festival 2009 The roundtable session, called "Carbon Conundrum," took place in front of an audience of about 150 on day two of the World Science Festival.
Science News May 9, 2009	Science Past From The Issue Of May 9, 1959 Scientists predict 25% increase in carbon dioxide by the year 2000.
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick	Soaking up Carbon Researchers recently announced that they had created metal-based sponges that have exceptionally high capacity for storing carbon dioxide. This nanotechnology is one of many new solutions in the search to find a fix for storing human-emitted carbon-based greenhouse gases.
Geotimes November 2004 Dickens & Pinsker	Methane Hydrate and Abrupt Climate Change Conceivably, we live in a world with an enormous amount of gas hydrate and free gas that affects climate and global systems over time
Geotimes September 2004 Megan Sever	Slower Cooling in Oregon New research suggests that the climate in Oregon slowly cooled over 6 million years as a result of evolving grasslands pulling carbon dioxide out of the air and locking the carbon into the soil.
Geotimes September 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Corals Adapt to Sea Change When seawater chemistry changes, some corals can change their structural makeup in an effort to adjust -- making them the first creatures known to do so, according to a new study.
Geotimes October 2006	Geocatastrophes Catastrophe and Opportunity in an Ancient Hot-House Climate... When the Mediterranean Dried Up: Forensics of a Geocatastrophe... The Great Death: Redefining a Mass Extinction...
Chemistry World January 23, 2013	Chemical climate proxies With the climate change debate as heated as ever, how do scientists reconstruct what the weather was like in the past? Jon Evans looks at the detective chemistry behind such environmental forensic work
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 William B. Gail	Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there.
Popular Mechanics July 2008 Jon Luoma	Greenhouse Graveyard: New Progress for Big Global Warming Fix Scientists admit it will be tough to capture a key greenhouse gas and bury carbon dioxide in the ground, in rock or underwater. What's even tougher for carbon sequestration: figuring out where to store it.
Science News August 18, 2007	Timeline: From the August 14, 1937, Issue New "Tree-Form" Columns Permit Clear Aisles... Sea Serpent's Skull Found by California Student... Industrial Plants Loose co 2 But Green Plants Return it...
Geotimes December 2004 Jay Chapman	Carbon Dioxide Alchemy Some scientists are experimenting with a new form of alchemy, not looking to create a substance, but rather remove one: carbon dioxide. If their process works, it could reduce the effects of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
Chemistry World June 23, 2006 Jon Evans	Phosphorus Concentrations Catalogued in Coral A species of cold-water coral keeps an accurate record of marine phosphorus concentrations, report geoscientists. The coral Desmophyllum dianthus incorporates phosphorus into its skeleton at concentrations proportional to those in the surrounding ocean.
Chemistry World March 2006 Katie Gibb	Extreme Analysis High pressures, cold temperatures and inaccessible samples all make analytical work challenging for chemists. Science still has a lot to gain from studying and working in extreme environments.
Chemistry World November 12, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Carbonic acid captured Scientists from Germany and Israel have caught a fleeting glimpse of carbonic acid, the simple yet elusive molecule that plays a key role in nature.
TIME Asia February 7, 2011 Krista Mahr	Testing the Waters The Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's natural wonders, covering an area larger than Italy and drawing nearly 2 million tourists every year to boat, swim, snorkel and dive amid its elaborate flora and fauna. It's also one of the planet's most fragile ecosystems
Chemistry World July 19, 2012 Hayley Birch	Ocean fertilization shows carbon sequestration promise New data from iron fertilization experiments in the Southern Ocean support the idea that artificially created algal blooms can draw carbon to the bottom of the ocean, where it may be stored for centuries.
Chemistry World January 16, 2012 Yan Yan	China mulls tax on carbon emissions Following more encouraging sounds from the Chinese government at the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, on reducing carbon emissions a proposal to levy a carbon tax is moving up the policy agenda.
Chemistry World August 2, 2013 Jennifer Newton	If everything is chemistry then I need to do chemistry Cafer Yavuz is a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon. His groups design and make new materials from oxide and organic building blocks to offer sustainable solutions for energy and environmental issues.
Wired November 2000 Robert A. Metzger	Confessions of a CO2 Composter How I learned to love crop residue...
Chemistry World October 5, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Air, Can we Have Our Carbon Back? Sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is outlandishly expensive. But a US scientist who has just worked out how to improve its efficiency predicts it will be necessary before the end of the century.
IEEE Spectrum August 2010 Paul McFedries	Technically Speaking: Hacking the Planet There's plenty of controversy swirling around the idea of climate intervention -- and no shortage of new words
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick	Doubling the Ice Record A team of European researchers released their first round of results from the longest ice core ever to be recovered from a polar glacier. Measurements show some interesting temperature shifts that may cause climatologists to reevaluate their models.
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick	Virtual Climate Experiment's Results A worldwide global climate experiment that ran on tens of thousands of personal computers across the planet offered the most extreme scenario yet for global warming.
Geotimes March 2003	Demonstrating Carbon Sequestration Estimates are that human activity emits 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year. One proposed method for reducing how much of the greenhouse gas ends up in the atmosphere is to store the carbon dioxide underground. Natural reservoirs of the gas exist, suggesting that it is feasible.
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Monica Heger	Q&A With: Ecologist and Geoengineering Expert Philip Boyd Ecologist Philip Boyd says we need to figure out the benefits and risks of geoengineering now
Chemistry World February 26, 2013 Holly Sheahan	Capturing the potential of carbon dioxide A team of researchers from the University of Bath have opened up the idea of using carbon dioxide as a useful potential feedstock; a useful chemical resource rather than a troublesome waste product.
Popular Mechanics February 23, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Can NASA's New Climate Detective Find the Missing CO2? Early Tuesday morning, a Taurus XL rocket will ferry a CO2 sniffing satellite, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, into space, where it will try to unlock secrets of Earth's carbon cycle.