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Study: Genghis Khan's Mass Killings Cut Carbon Footprint

Genghis Khan's bloodthirsty, bow-wielding horsemen conquered vast swaths of Europe, the Middle East and Asia, destroying countless civilizations that stood in their path. But a new study suggests that the Mongol tyrant's empire wasn't just the largest and most brutal the world has ever seen -- it was also, in its own...

Old Fights Plague Climate Talks in Cancun

CANCUN, Mexico (Dec. 6) -- Deep, longstanding divisions between industrialized powers and developing nations over how to fight global warming are festering as negotiators today begin their second week of talks on climate change. The developed world wants emerging economies like China and India to take a greater role in...

Commercial Space Travel: Not All That Green, Study Says

(Oct. 25) -- Last week, a science fiction vision of the future seemed to get one step closer when Virgin Group's Sir Richard Branson unveiled a completed runway at the new Virgin Galactic Spaceport in the New Mexico desert. But some scientists are now worrying that the environmental impact of private spacecraft might make...

NASA: CO2, Not Water Vapor, Causes Global Warming

(Oct. 15) -- The Earth's atmosphere is a complicated place. Somewhere in that swirling, shifting mixture of air, water and other gasses is the key to keeping us earthlings alive -- or to cooking us. Carbon dioxide has always received the most media attention as the leading cause of climate change, and a new study from...

Opinion: World Talks, US Delivers on Global Warming

(Dec. 11) -- At the Copenhagen global warming conference this week, Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson sought to reassure world leaders that the United States is "fighting to make up for lost time" on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Her plea is understandable. The U.S. constantly gets an earful on this...

Background on co2

Carbon dioxide (chemical formula CO2) is a naturally occurring chemical compound composed of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom.

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