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Study: Crop relocation can help buffer US agriculture from climate change but southern states may face massive loss of productive land

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—James Rising, Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. For wheat and barley, adaptation depends on water availability, with higher sensitivity in dry regions. Soybeans show a gradual movement north, replacing spring wheat and barley.

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Novel microbial biosensor platforms for early detection and treatment of oil leakage and produced waters

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Researchers at Mississippi State University are developing technology that would alert pipeline managers about leaks as soon as failure begins, avoiding the environmental disasters and fuel distribution disruptions resulting from pipeline leaks.

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Rice University Study and Policy Paper Find US Biofuels Policies Flawed, Recommend Fundamental Overhaul

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They also question whether mandated volumes for biofuels—including advanced biofuels—can be met and whether biofuels are improving the environment or energy security. Based on the latest available US Government Accountability Office data (2008) the US government spent $4 billion in subsidies to replace about 2% of the US gasoline supply.

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Study Concludes That Use of Cellulosic Feedstocks to Meet US Biofuel Requirements Will Still Likely Result in Expansion of the Gulf Dead Zone

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The findings suggest that an aggressive nutrient management strategy will be needed to reach the goal of a 5,000 km 2 areal extent of hypoxia set forth by the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force even in the absence of biofuels, given current production to meet food, feed, and other industrial needs. Earlier post.).

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MSU moves forward with DOE-backed CO2 storage project in northern Montana

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The team includes four other universities, three national laboratories and five private sector companies and has experience with carbon storage projects in Washington, Wyoming, Canada, Illinois, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and internationally. Project information will be available at www.bigskyCO 2.org

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Study Finds Ozone, Nitrogen Change the Way Rising CO2 Affects Earths Water

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It could also mean fewer droughts than predicted for some areas and more water available for human consumption and farming. Benjamin Felzer, Lehigh University. Plants that release less water also take less of it from the environment. Our environment and quality of life depend on less uncertainty on this front. —co-author

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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The SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) International Biofuels Project, has published the full proceedings of its Rapid Assessment workshop on the environmental effects of biofuel technologies, 22-25 September 2008. SCOPE is part of the International Council for Science. The methodology used by Searchinger et al.