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Mar

2015

California could power itself three to five times over with solar, Washington Post

By Carnegie HQ

Read the Washington Post story on California solar power potential. March 3-17-15

Mar

2015

Solar could meet California energy demand three to five times over

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. — In the face of global climate change, increasing the use of renewable energy resources is one of the most urgent challenges facing the world. Further development of one resource, ...

Jan

2015

Drought Led to Massive “Dead Zone” in Lake Erie

By Carnegie HQ

Audio Washington, D.C. —Lake Erie just can’t catch a break. The lake has experienced harmful algal blooms and severe oxygen-depleted “dead zones” for years, but now a team of researchers led by ...

Dec

2014

PBS Interviews Chris Field at the Peru Climate Talks (at 6:30) 12-11-14

By Carnegie HQ

PBS Interviews Chris Field at the Peru Climate Talks (at 6:30) 12-11-14

Dec

2014

Read Newseek's coverage of Greg Asner's forest mapping in Peru

By Carnegie HQ

Read the Newsweek article that describes how Greg Asner created the first high-resolution carbon maps of the entire country of Peru

Dec

2014

Warming reaches maximum 10 years after carbon dioxide emission

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.— The climate warming caused by a single carbon emission takes only about 10 years to reach its maximum effect. This is important because it refutes the common misconception that ...

Nov

2014

Overhaul in Tropical Forest Research Needed

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.— New work from a team led by Carnegie’s Greg Asner shows the limitations of long-used research methods in tropical rainforest ecology and points to new technological approaches for ...

Nov

2014

Mapping reveals targets for preserving tropical carbon stocks

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C. — A new high-resolution mapping strategy has revealed billions of tons of carbon in Peruvian forests that can be preserved as part of an effort to sequester carbon stocks in the ...

Sep

2014

Coral growth rate plummets in 30-year comparison

By Carnegie HQ

Audio Washington, DC — A team of researchers working on a Carnegie expedition in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has documented that coral growth rates have plummeted 40 percent since the mid-1970s. ...

Aug

2014

Watch Anna Michalak's interview on PBS News Hour about the algal bloom in Lake Erie causing water problems in Toledo 8-3-14

By Carnegie HQ

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