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Earth’s ‘missing’ heat may be hiding deep in oceans

September 18, 2011

The world temperature should have risen more than it did but where was the heat going?

The mystery of Earth’s missing heat may have been solved: it could lurk deep in oceans, temporarily masking the climate-warming effects of greenhouse gas emissions, researchers reported on Sunday.

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Growing fake meat in a lab could cut greenhouse emissions by 96% according to scientists

July 5, 2011

Researchers hope to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by producing fake meat in a lab.

Scientists from Oxford University have decided to concentrate their efforts on culturing and growing artificial meat in petri dishes, Instead of focusing on ending the horrendous factory farming practices that inhumanely confine cattle to tight living spaces, and subject them to an unnatural diet of genetically-modified (GM) corn and soybeans.

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Rising Seas Could Threaten U.S. Coastal Cities by 2100

February 15, 2011

This map shows where increases in sea level could affect the southern and Gulf coasts of the US.

Rising sea levels could threaten an average of 9 percent of the land within 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100, according to new research led by University of Arizona scientists.

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