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Lessons From Sandy: extreme weather will be the new normal

Lessons From Sandy: extreme weather will be the new normal | The Glory of the Garden | Scoop.it

Ina recent forumheld at the Harvard School of Public Health four expert panelists discussed the most important lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy.

Daniel Schrag, climate scientist and Director of the Harvard Center for the Environment said that "hurricane Sandy has been connected by the public to climate change in a way that other storms have not".

This storm has brought the conversation of our vulnerability and need for adaptation to climate change back to the table.

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Fertilizer use responsible for increase in nitrous oxide in atmosphere

Fertilizer use responsible for increase in nitrous oxide in atmosphere | The Glory of the Garden | Scoop.it

"The new study, reported in the April issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, uses nitrogen isotope data to identify the unmistakable fingerprint of fertilizer use in archived air samples from Antarctica and Tasmania. Our study is the first to show empirically from the data at hand alone that the nitrogen isotope ratio in the atmosphere and how it has changed over time is a fingerprint of fertilizer use," said study leader Kristie Boering, a UC Berkeley professor of chemistry and of earth and planetary science."

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Carbon map infographic: a new way to see the Earth move

Carbon map infographic: a new way to see the Earth move | The Glory of the Garden | Scoop.it
How can you map the world to show global datasets in an immediately compelling and clear way?
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