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Revealed : the environmental impact of Google searches


According to new research, performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea.

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Methods have potential to contain Global Warming


Consulting firm McKinsey & Company, focusing on the opportunities that cost less than about  $80 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent, as well as the opportunities that do not have a material effect on the lifestyle of consumers says that there are more than 200 methods for reducing greenhouse gas emission have the potential to hold back global warming.


Ocean Less Effective At Absorbing Carbon Dioxide Emitted By Human Activity


The oceans act as the planet's main carbon sink by absorbing a large part of CO2 emissions, but in the last ten years they have become increasingly unable to play this role, in both the northern and southern hemispheres.