Carbon Dioxide Emissions
According to recent measurements from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) observatory in Mauna Lao, Hawaii, carbon dioxide emissions have finally passed the dreaded threshold that everyone's been warning about. For the first time in recorded human history, levels of carbon dioxide surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm); a phenomenon that has not graced this planet for millions of years.
Rising sea levels are expected to begin affecting many coastal cities in the decades to come, and researchers have been scrambling for a way to curb the process. An encouraging new study now states that curbing four key pollutants can effectively slow the rate of sea level rising by 25 to 50 percent.
Delegates to the conference have agreed on a tenuous extension to the embattled Kyoto Protocol, the 15-year-old international greenhouse gas emissions treaty.
The impact of Hurricane Sandy looms large over the latest United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, already in progress in Doha, Qatar.
Scientists say increasingly acidic ocean water is actually starting to dissolve tiny sea creatures.
In a bid to cut carbon dioxide emissions in half by 2025, the Obama administration has introduced regulations that will require new fleets of cars and trucks to average 54.5 miles per gallon fuel economy over the next thirteen years.
