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Stuart Haszeldine, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh (UK) has shown that sandstone rock formations under the seabed are capable of storing up to 150,000 million tonnes of CO2. According to the scientist, is the only option for storing carbon and achieve a reduction of 2 ° C in combating climate change.
 “This is a massive storage capacity could amount to hundreds of years of carbon from power plants,” said Stuart Haszeldine, a study author and researcher at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom). For the British geologist, another advantage of the underwater storage is that “it is safer and faster than underground storage.
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The United Nations Organization (UNO) announced today, Wednesday 14 October, a Rapid Response Report, which has involved the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), which shows how the recovery of large natural sinks ocean (seagrass beds, mudflats and mangrove forests) can help reduce, along with halting the deforestation, 25% CO2 emissions to avoid the consequences more “dangerous” climate change. The report also urges governments to create an investment fund and take urgent measures to maintain and rehabilitate the so-called ‘carbon sinks blue’.
Two months before the next climate summit in Copenhagen, the document Carbon Blue: the role of healthy oceans in carbon capturePresented by the UN for the National Marine Month in South Africa, says these marine capture and store a quantity of carbon dioxide equivalent to half of the annual emissions from the transport sector around the world and warns that, in the currently falling at a rate seven times greater than 50 years ago. It is estimated that each year is lost between 2% and 7% of these natural sinks more powerful than the rainforests.
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| Category: Disaster protection, Environment | Tags: agriculture, blue carbon sinks, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, greenhouse gases, healthy oceans, mangrove forests, Nations Organization, Oceanographic, rainforests |
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Sulfur dioxide (SO2) is a gaseous pollutant emitted by natural sources and the burning of fossil fuels containing sulfur. It can cause several types of acute pulmonary diseases and chronic conditions. Sulfur dioxide also reduces agricultural productivity. Form of sulfite,
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The University of Valencia hosts this week the International Workshop on Integrated Coastal Zone Management. Scientists have claimed public policy of natural processes of recovery instead of promoting hard work as artificial regeneration of the beaches or the construction of breakwaters.
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 It was not until 2050 that the overall level ozone (O3) in the atmosphere [1] back to the 80s, and we have to wait until 2075 for the Antarctic area in particular. These are the estimates of the Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia (AEMET) [2], the Meteorological Agency of the Spanish Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine [3], which were released on the occasion of the Day for Preservation of the Ozone Layer. This day was celebrated under the motto “Universal Participation: The Ozone Protection unifies the world.”
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