Greenhouse Effect

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A predictive framework to understand forest responses to global change. 
  • Biodiversity: climate change or habitat loss - which will kill more species? 
  • Biomass and toxicity responses of poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) to elevated atmospheric CO2. 
  • Boiler Briquette Coal versus Raw Coal: Part II-Energy, Greenhouse Gas, and Air Quality Implications. 
  • Carbon dynamics and land-use choices: building a regional-scale multidisciplinary model. 
  • Challenges in elevated CO2 experiments on forests. 
  • Climate change, deforestation, and the fate of the Amazon. 
  • Climate change, elevational range shifts, and bird extinctions. 
  • Climate disruption and biodiversity. 
  • Consistent simulations of multiple proxy responses to an abrupt climate change event. 
  • Decarbonizing agriculture through the conversion of animal manure to dietary protein and ammonia fertilizer. 
  • Entrepreneurial insects. 
  • Environmental health in China: progress towards clean air and safe water. 
  • Environmental implications of United States coal exports: a comparative life cycle assessment of future power system scenarios. 
  • Evaluating the sources of potential migrant species: implications under climate change. 
  • Greenhouse gas fluxes in southeastern U.S. coastal plain wetlands under contrasting land uses. 
  • Integrated model shows that atmospheric brown clouds and greenhouse gases have reduced rice harvests in India. 
  • Models to predict emissions of health-damaging pollutants and global warming contributions of residential fuel/stove combinations in China. 
  • Observed change of the standardized precipitation index, its potential cause and implications to future climate change in the Amazon region. 
  • Physical and economic potential of geological CO 2 storage in saline aquifers 
  • Predicting population survival under future climate change: density dependence, drought and extraction in an insular bighorn sheep. 
  • Regulating the ultimate sink: managing the risks of geologic CO2 storage. 
  • Rising CO2 levels and the fecundity of forest trees. 
  • Set-asides can be better climate investment than corn ethanol. 
  • The global atmospheric environment for the next generation. 
  • The potential role for management of U.S. public lands in greenhouse gas mitigation and climate policy. 
  • The toxicology of climate change: environmental contaminants in a warming world. 
  • Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. 
  • Tropical countries may be willing to pay more to protect their forests. 
  • Uncertainty, imprecision, and the precautionary principle in climate change assessment. 
  • Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Newell, Richard G., Adjunct Professor, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Pratson, Lincoln F., Gendell Family Professor of Energy and Environment, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Shindell, Drew Todd, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Earth Science, Earth and Ocean Sciences