#Climate change will ultimately cost humanity $100,000 per ton of carbon, scientists estimate

“#Climate change will ultimately cost humanity $100,000 per ton of carbon, scientists estimate” According to new research from UChicago scientists, the costs of carbon emissions will far outpace what we see in our lifetimes. In the above data visualization still, dark red areas indicate a 2.76-inch rise from 1992 to 2014. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization…

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#Human disturbance and environmental change factors affect biological nitrogen fixation in terrestrial ecosystems

“#Human disturbance and environmental change factors affect biological nitrogen fixation in terrestrial ecosystems” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Biological nitrogen (N) fixation, a key process of N conversion performed by symbiotic or free-living N-fixing organisms, plays an important role in terrestrial N cycling and represents a key driver of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP). Despite the…

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#Tanker salvage begins as Sri Lanka battles oil slick

“#Tanker salvage begins as Sri Lanka battles oil slick” A huge week-long blaze aboard the New Diamond was finally extinguished Wednesday International experts boarded an oil tanker stricken off Sri Lanka to begin salvage operations, the navy said Thursday, as firefighters looked to contain a large oil slick in the Indian Ocean. A huge week-long…

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#California wildfire explodes, burning across 25 miles in day

“#California wildfire explodes, burning across 25 miles in day” This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken at 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. EDT) and provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows brown smoke from wildfires blowing westward in the atmosphere from California’s Sierra Nevada to the Coast Ranges and from Oregon, top, on Wednesday,…

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