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Jun

2011

Anna Michalak joins Global Ecology faculty

By Carnegie HQ

Carnegie welcomes four new staff researchers. Anna M. Michalak joins the Department of Global Ecology . Prior to joining Carnegie, she was the Frank and Brooke Transue Faculty Scholar and an ...

Apr

2011

Sugarcane Cools Climate After Deforestation

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA— Brazilians are world leaders in using biofuels for gasoline. About A quarter of their automobile fuel consumption comes from sugarcane, which significantly reduces carbon dioxide ...

Apr

2011

Climate change from black carbon depends on altitude

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA—Scientists have known for decades that black carbon aerosols add to global warming. These airborne particles made of sooty carbon are believed to be among the largest man-made ...

Mar

2011

Cutting carbon dioxide helps prevent drying

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, D.C.— Recent climate modeling has shown that reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would give the Earth a wetter climate in the short term. New research from ...

Mar

2011

Quantifying Carbon in Hawaii’s Forests

By Carnegie HQ

Feb

2011

Video: President of Colombia Visits Carnegie Study Area

By Carnegie HQ

The Global Ecology team recently completed the airborne phase of a new project to map 35 million acres of tropical forest in the Colombian Amazon. The project seeks to quantify the carbon composition ...

Jan

2011

War, Plague No Match for Deforestation in Driving CO2 Buildup

By Carnegie HQ

Video Press Release Stanford, CA— Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes had an impact on the global carbon cycle as big as today’s annual demand for gasoline. The Black Death, on the other hand, came ...

Jan

2011

Carnegie Airborne Observatory: Mapping Video

By Carnegie HQ

Some 55% of tropical forests are negatively affected by land use practices and deforestation worldwide. But the ability to penetrate the canopy to see what’s going on has been lacking until now. ...

Oct

2010

Ancient Colorado River Flowed Backwards

By Carnegie HQ

Palo Alto, CA—Geologists have found evidence that some 55 million years ago a river as big as the modern Colorado flowed through Arizona into Utah in the opposite direction from the present-day river ...

Sep

2010

Optimizing climate change reduction

By Carnegie HQ

High rez image http://carnegiescience.edu/climate_model_results_relative_lowco2_climate Palo Alto, CA —Scientists at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology have taken a new approach ...

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