Category: Green Building LEED News
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In the Know with Maggie and Joe
Published on: 3 Mar 2014 Feature image: Joe and I will be bringing you the top global green building highlights f…
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Meet USGBC’s Senior Materials Research Fellows
Published on: 3 Mar 2014 Feature image: As part of the LEED, Materials, and Health Initiative, the U.S. Green Building Council has engaged a team of scientific experts to conduct synthetic research and advise USGBC staff on the…
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Meet USGBC’s Senior Materials Research Fellows
Published on: 3 Mar 2014 Feature image: As part of the LEED, Materials, and Health Initiative, the U.S. Green Bui…
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Climate Change Effects Antarctica’s Ocean Salinity, Traping Heat in Deep Water
In the mid-1970s, the first available satellite images of Antarctica during the polar winter revealed a huge ice-free region within the ice pack of the Weddell Sea. This ice-free region—or polynya—stayed open for three full winters before it closed. Subsequent research showed that the opening was maintained as relatively warm waters churned upward from kilometers…
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Flood Risk in Europe Expected to Double by 2050
By Tim Radford The catastrophic floods that soaked Europe last summer and the United Kingdom this winter are part of the pattern of things to come. According to a new study of flood risk in Nature Climate Change annual average losses from extreme floods in Europe could increase fivefold by 2050. And the frequency of destructive…