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    Storing captured carbon dioxide underground in order to mitigate climate change can be done in a way that minimizes earthquake risk.

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    New research by YCEI scientists shows that heterotrophic fungi acclimate rapidly and efficiently to temperature – a finding that has significant implications for understanding climate-ecosystem carbon feedback mechanisms through respiration.

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Challenges of monitoring carbon dioxide in the subsurface

Submitted by: Christopher MacMinn

Large-scale carbon sequestration involves capturing carbon dioxide emitted from power plants and injecting it into underground reservoirs for long-term storage. Leakage from these storage reservoirs could lead to groundwater contamination, requiring that the spread of CO2 be monitored during and after injection. Seismic surveys are one key monitoring tool...

Increase in the range between wet and dry season precipitation

Submitted by: Xavier Levine

A simple thermodynamic argument suggests that as the water vapor content of the atmosphere...

Fungi, not plants, drive long-term carbon sequestration in boreal forest

Submitted by: Thomas Crowther

Soils contain two-thirds of the world’s terrestrial carbon (3,000 Pg C).

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