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Booming Beijing: the impact of urban growth on local environment

Suzanne Hangx July 20, 2015

The global population is ever-growing. Cities are expanding at a rapid pace. A recent study by Mark Jacobsen of Stanford University and Son Nghiem of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory investigated the urban growth of Beijing, China (published on June 15th in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres). Their results showed that the city had quadripled in size in the span of a dec ...[Read More]

Whodunit?: It was Mankind With the Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere

ERE Matters June 29, 2015

Last week I came across this beautifully illustrated account of what is causing the planet’s rising temperature, based on findings obtained by NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies. The graphic is designed by Erik Roston and Blacki Migliozzi, in collaboration with Kate Marvel and Gavin Schmidt of NASA-GISS. Check out the full article What’s really warming the world? on Bloomb ...[Read More]

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Welcome to the blog of the Energy, Resources and the Environment (ERE) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The main goal of the division Energy, Resources & the Environment (ERE) is to be a leading forum on discussions regarding the provision of adequate and reliable supplies of affordable energy and other resources, in environmentally sustainable ways. The blog is run by Sian Loveless and Suzanne Hangx. Those wishing to contribute to the ERE blog can submit a post here.