Solutions to Climate Change

If you were to type, as I suspect many of my students did, "Solutions Climate change problem", you would receive around 79 millions responses from Google. Most of these boil down to 10-12 main solutions that maybe categorized as follows. Changes in power generation Use less coal Increase % of nuclear power Increase alternative energy …

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Really cool article on ocean microbes and biofuel

Ocean microbes - plankton, algae, diatoms, bacteria, viruses (phages) - are a critical part of the carbon cycle of the ocean. Until recently, they were not very well understood. Some great articles on the same: https://mitei.mit.edu/news/ocean-microbes-display-hidden-talent-releasing-countless-tiny-lipid-filled-sacs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_bacteriophage#cite_note-pmid17853907-11