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Geotimes July 2003 Tim Palucka	Lightning implicated in ozone over Africa About five years ago, atmospheric scientists studying ozone concentrations over equatorial Africa and the southern hemisphere of the tropical Atlantic came across a puzzling situation. Unexpectedly high levels of ozone in southern Africa were finally explained by an overlooked phenomenon: lightning.
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Greenhouse Gases Revisited Scientists say now that a new method of tracking the effects of greenhouse gases could lead to a more accurate understanding of their impact on climate change, which other scientists say the Arctic is already experiencing on a dramatic scale.
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick	Susan Solomon: Chemistry in the Clouds The atmospheric scientist, won the Blue Planet Prize last June for her work on the Antarctic ozone hole. The prestigious environmental award is given to two individuals or organizations every year by the Japanese Asahi Glass Foundation, along with 50 million yen (equivalent to about $460,000).
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick	Soaking up Carbon Researchers recently announced that they had created metal-based sponges that have exceptionally high capacity for storing carbon dioxide. This nanotechnology is one of many new solutions in the search to find a fix for storing human-emitted carbon-based greenhouse gases.
Chemistry World August 21, 2009 Hepeng Jia	China's emissions to peak early A new report suggests that China's carbon emissions could peak in 2030, twenty years earlier than previously estimated.
Chemistry World November 2010 Bibiana Campos Seijo	Editorial: Nobels and Ozone Four of this year's Nobel prize winners are working at UK institutions... The health of the ozone layer is still in intensive care but the long-term prognosis is good...
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Geotimes December 2004 Jay Chapman	Carbon Dioxide Alchemy Some scientists are experimenting with a new form of alchemy, not looking to create a substance, but rather remove one: carbon dioxide. If their process works, it could reduce the effects of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
Geotimes April 2006 Naomi Lubick	Faith-Based Carbon Credit Systems Market-based approaches to help stem carbon releases, and in turn climate change, could prove difficult to marshal and enforce. Carbon credits and trade incentives are a small piece in a larger issue.
Chemistry World September 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Ozone-Destroying Chemicals to be Phased Out Faster Over 200 nations have agreed at a UN meeting to accelerate the phase-out of refrigerants that destroy the ozone layer. But the revised agreement may spur developing countries to churn out more ozone-depleting HCFCs in the short term.
Chemistry World December 2, 2013 Ian Randall	Mass extinction the result of acid rain and ozone loss Widespread rain as acidic as lemon juice and the destruction of as much as 65% of the ozone layer may have played a major role in the largest mass extinction in the fossil record.
Chemistry World May 24, 2011 Andrew Turley	Chemical industry fears over UK emissions plans Government plans to cut UK greenhouse gas emissions risk crippling the chemical sector and thereby harming chances of moving to a low emissions future
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Chemistry World October 5, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Air, Can we Have Our Carbon Back? Sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is outlandishly expensive. But a US scientist who has just worked out how to improve its efficiency predicts it will be necessary before the end of the century.
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean	Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming -- From Space The first of several satellites designed to monitor Earth's greenhouse gases has reached orbit and will begin collecting data in the coming months.
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Chemistry World July 21, 2009 Anna Lewcock	Degrees of freedom The global nature of the climate change offers both opportunities and challenges. The US, for example, is keen to establish international cooperation and collaboration in climate change research
Chemistry World December 2009 Chris Reynolds	Regulatory Burden A new carbon emissions scheme will unwittingly hit the chemical industry. The UK risks being at a disadvantage if industry is overburdened with regulation.
Geotimes February 2006 Naomi Lubick	Trees Confound Global Warming The potential canceling-out effects of trees' low reflectivity for carbon sequestration raise questions as to whether tree planters should get carbon credits in North America, as outlined in the Kyoto Protocol.
Chemistry World June 5, 2014 Rebecca Trager	US plans 30% emissions cuts for power plants The US's 1000 coal plants will have to cut emissions by 30% below 2005 levels under proposed rules
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BusinessWeek December 30, 2009 John Carey	Greenhouse Gases: Who's Cheating? The amounts of carbon in the atmosphere are out of whack with predictions and reported output.
Chemistry World July 25, 2007 Peter Mitchell	Newly Identified Side to Global Warming An atmospheric mechanism has emerged that could lift global temperatures by even higher than the 2-5 C rise predicted by the end of the century as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.
Chemistry World May 4, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Cutting the Cost of Climate Change Scientists have welcomed a UN climate change report released on Friday that sets out a range of affordable options for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Chemistry World January 16, 2012 Yan Yan	China mulls tax on carbon emissions Following more encouraging sounds from the Chinese government at the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, on reducing carbon emissions a proposal to levy a carbon tax is moving up the policy agenda.
BusinessWeek December 30, 2009	The Greenhouse Gas Gap Companies and countries report their emissions but the disclosed amounts often don't add up to what's actually in the air.
The Motley Fool July 9, 2008 Zoe Van Schyndel	Turn Smog Into Money This new exchange-traded investment lets you profit from carbon credits.
Chemistry World February 8, 2010 Rebecca Renner	Coming clean on emissions outsourcing Industrialized countries 'outsource' a large proportion of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with manufacturing the items they consume, according to a new study that, for the first time, details this outsourcing on a global basis.
Geotimes December 2006 Fred Schwab	Why Fester? Let's Sequester! Instead of looking toward another fossil fuel-based energy choice, scientists need to examine carbon dioxide sequestering, the capture and storage technology that removes anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Popular Mechanics December 17, 2009 Adam Hadhazy	How the Manufacturing Sector Can Curtail Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increasing efficiency, which reduces emissions, also improves the bottom line, and so the manufacturing industry has already begun to think creatively about its sizable carbon footprint.
Chemistry World November 13, 2013 Andy Extance	Europe's manufacturing edge not leaking away There is no evidence that Europe's emissions trading scheme has driven production of goods reliant on fossil fuels, like chemicals, elsewhere.
Chemistry World February 2007 Helen Pilcher	Living on Credits Carbon rationing isn't just a personal fancy. A growing band of UK politicians and scientists are touting it as the fairest and most practical way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Susan Arterian Chang	Carbon Commerce The Europeans have demonstrated beyond doubt that the right to emit CO2 is destined to be a major internationally traded asset -- but their experience to date also exemplifies some of the pitfalls the rest of the world faces in establishing such trading systems.
CFO June 1, 2009 Vincent Ryan	Green Counters Sophisticated tools for carbon-emissions accounting are coming to market. But are U.S. companies ready for them?
Popular Mechanics July 2008 Jon Luoma	Greenhouse Graveyard: New Progress for Big Global Warming Fix Scientists admit it will be tough to capture a key greenhouse gas and bury carbon dioxide in the ground, in rock or underwater. What's even tougher for carbon sequestration: figuring out where to store it.
Geotimes October 2005 Naomi Lubick	Ozone Link to Permian Extinction New research on how ozone affects plants and their reproduction may be the key to figuring out what happened to trigger Earth's largest extinction event, which occurred around 250 million years ago.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Peter Fairley	Europe Looks to North America's Forests to Meet Renewable Energy Goals Emissions reductions, however, may prove smaller and slower than once expected
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Geotimes May 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Natural Bumps in the Atmosphere Temperatures at Earth's surface have been rising for decades, but in the upper atmosphere, the temperature is slowly dropping. In explaining this change, scientists have focused on human-related causes -- but a new study shows that nature should not be ignored.
Chemistry World May 7, 2014 Emma Stoye	China's nitrous oxide emissions to triple by 2020 Emissions of nitrous oxide -- a potent greenhouse gas -- from China's chemical industries are increasing rapidly, and are set to triple by 2020 unless measures are put in place to stop them, new projections show.
Science News February 17, 2007	Science Safari: Ozone Depletion and Recovery Answers to questions about ozone depletion and the recovery of the ozone hole are now easy to find by researchers, as well as the general public, through a new online index developed by NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory.
Salon.com November 17, 2000 Dawn MacKeen	U.S. clash on global warming A new Department of Energy report undermines the position of U.S. negotiators at a U.N. conference on reducing greenhouse gases...
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Chemistry World May 27, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Flue gas reclaimed as polymer feedstock The first systematic environmental assessment of an industrial plant that produces polyols from carbon dioxide has revealed that they significantly reduce both carbon dioxide emissions and the demand on fossil fuel reserves.
Popular Mechanics February 23, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Can NASA's New Climate Detective Find the Missing CO2? Early Tuesday morning, a Taurus XL rocket will ferry a CO2 sniffing satellite, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, into space, where it will try to unlock secrets of Earth's carbon cycle.