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Climate news from ScienceDaily.com

• Turning carbon emissions into methane fuel
  Chemists have developed a novel way to capture and convert carbon dioxide into methane, suggesting that future gas emissions could be converted into an alternative fuel using electricity from renewable sources.
• Research highlights the pressures human activities place on tropical marine ecosystems
  The tropical coastlines of Southeast Asia are home to some of the most important and biodiverse marine ecosystems on the planet. But as well as being essential to communities along these coastlines, fishing and tourism were found -- in new research conducted by an international study team -- to be among the most damaging from […]
• New model sheds light on groundwater declines by linking irrigation decisions and groundwater use
  Sustainable rates of groundwater withdrawal in Oregon's Harney Basin were surpassed 20 years prior to the time declining groundwater levels were generally recognized, a new analysis found.