Fossil Fuel
Wood Formation in Trees
Trees are a major component of the biosphere and have played an important part in our history and culture. Today, we are facing the challenges of global warming and dwindling fossil fuel reserves. Trees, and in particular their wood, can help us solve both these modern dilemmas.
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Coal Energy Systems
Coal is the most abundant fossil fuel in the world. There is approximately twice as much recoverable coal in the world as there is oil and natural gas combined. The US has over 200 years of coal reserves, the largest amount in the world.
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Climate Change and Global Food Security
Emissions of carbon from fossil fuel combustion, along with a change in land use, has led to the depletion of the soil's organic carbon pool.
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Global Biogeochemical Cycles in the Climate System
The interactions of biogeochemical cycles influence and maintain our climate system. Land use and fossil fuel emissions are currently impacting the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur on land, in the atmosphere, and in the oceans.
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Toxic Burn
Debates over global warming and fossil fuel dependence dominate public discussions of the environment. For many of us, these debates are abstract because environmental problems do not yet disrupt our daily lives.
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Urban Energy Transition
This compendium contains both fundamental and advanced insight into the inevitable shift from cities dominated by the fossil-fuel systems of the industrial age to a renewable-energy based urban development framework.
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