Cycling Reform <div>Cycling is not only an efficient mode of transport, it also has direct benefits to health and wellbeing, and is good for the environment. </div>
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2013-09-15 20:52:00
Green Growth and Green Jobs (Transition to a Zero Carbon Britain) <div>This motion recognises that existing nuclear power stations should continue to run until the end of their operating lives and accept that new nuclear power stations could play a limited role in electricity supply. </div>
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2013-09-15 20:24:00
Tropical forest carbon absorption may hinge on an odd couple A Princeton University-based study found that a unique housing arrangement between trees in the legume family and the carbo-loading rhizobia bacteria may determine how well tropical forests can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The findings sugge
2013-09-15 00:00:00
Tropical forests 'fix' themselves Tropical forests speed their own recovery, capturing nitrogen and carbon faster after being logged or cleared for agriculture. Researchers working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama think the discovery that trees "turn up"
2013-09-15 00:00:00
Report: Climate change to shift Kenya's breadbaskets Kenyan farmers and agriculture officials need to prepare for a possible geographic shift in maize production as climate change threatens to make some areas of the country much less productive for cultivation while simultaneously making others more maize-f
2013-09-15 00:00:00
Florida State University's unofficial 'Spider-Man' follows nature's lead Eden Steven, a physicist at Florida State University's MagLab facility, discovered that simple methods can result in surprising and environmentally friendly high-tech outcomes during his experiments with spider silk and carbon nanotubes.
2013-09-13 00:00:00
CO2-hungry microbes might short-circuit the marine foodweb A five-week long field experiment of the European Project on Ocean Acidification shows that pico- and nanophytoplankton benefit from higher carbon dioxide concentrations in the water, causing an imbalance in the food web. In addition, the carbon export to
2013-09-13 00:00:00
Tiny plankton could have big impact on climate As the climate changes and oceans' acidity increases, tiny plankton seem set to succeed. An international team of scientists has found that the smallest plankton groups thrive under elevated CO2 levels. This could cause an imbalance in the food web as wel
2013-09-13 00:00:00
'Grassroots action' in livestock feeding to help curb global climate change In a series of papers to be presented next week, scientists offer new evidence that a potent chemical mechanism operating in the roots of a tropical grass used for livestock feed has enormous potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
2013-09-13 00:00:00
Delaying climate policy would triple short-term mitigation costs Further delay in the implementation of comprehensive international climate policies could substantially increase the short-term costs of climate change mitigation. Global economic growth would be cut back by up to 7 percent within the first decade after c
2013-09-12 00:00:00
A century of human impact on Arctic climate indicated by new models, historic aerosol data A new study authored by Canadian and American investigators and published in Scientific Reports, a primary research publication from the publishers of Nature, suggests that both anthropogenic and natural factors -- specifically sulphate aerosols from indu
2013-09-12 00:00:00
Movement of marine life follows speed and direction of climate change New research based at Princeton University shows that the trick to predicting when and where sea animals will relocate due to climate change is to follow the pace and direction of temperature changes, known as climate velocity.
2013-09-12 00:00:00
Current pledges put over 600 million people at risk of higher water scarcity Our current pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which are projected to set the global mean temperature increase at around 3.5°C above pre-industrial levels, will expose 668 million people worldwide to new or aggravated water scarcity.
2013-09-12 00:00:00
MEPs miss opportunity on biofuels vote Reacting to the European
Parliament’s plenary vote on biofuels today (Wednesday 11 September 2013),
Friends of the Earth Biofuels Campaigner Kenneth Richter said:“MEPs have missed a historic
opportunity fix a biofuel policy tha
2013-09-11 18:00:00
'Climate change' killed off mammoths Researchers have found the strongest evidence yet that climate change rather than humans was the main factor that drove the woolly mammoth to extinction.
2013-09-11 01:30:52
Study provides insights on protecting world's poor from climate change The worst impacts of climate change on the world's poorest fishing communities can likely be avoided by careful management of the local environment and investing in the diversification of options for local people, according to the Wildlife Conservation So
2013-09-11 00:00:00
Climate change may speed up forests' life cycles Many climate studies have predicted that tree species will respond to global warming by migrating via seed dispersal to cooler climates. But a Duke University study of 65 different species in 31 eastern states finds that nearly 80 percent of the species a
2013-09-11 00:00:00
Global warming could change strength of El Niño Global warming could impact the El Niño Southern Oscillation, altering the cycles of El Niño and La Niña events that bring extreme drought and flooding to Australia and many other Pacific-rim countries.
2013-09-11 00:00:00
Hottest days in some parts of Europe have warmed 4 times more than the global average Some of the hottest days and coldest nights in parts of Europe have warmed more than four times the global average change since 1950, according to a new paper by researchers from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the
2013-09-11 00:00:00
Scientific symposium on the toxicology of alternate fuels "Biofuel" is a global buzzword, with cars and trucks powered by fuel made from corn, switchgrass and waste cooking oil, envisioned as a way to stretch out supplies of crude oil and cope with global warming. A symposium being held here today at t
2013-09-11 00:00:00
How the newest diesel engines emit very little greenhouse gas nitrous oxide The newest catalytic converters in diesel engines blast away a pollutant from combustion with the help of ammonia. Common in European cars, the engines exhaust harmless nitrogen and water. How they do this hasn't been entirely clear. Now, new research sho
2013-09-10 00:00:00
Calculating the carbon footprint of California's products Now that California's greenhouse gas cap-and-trade policy is law, attention is shifting to recognizing industry efficiency. Researchers from Northwestern University, the University of California, Berkeley and the international consulting company Ecofys ha
2013-09-09 00:00:00
Stanford scientists calculate the energy required to store wind and solar power on the grid Renewable energy holds the promise of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. But there are times when solar and wind farms generate more electricity than is needed by consumers. Storing that surplus energy in batteries for later use seems like an obvious solu
2013-09-09 00:00:00
Effects of climate change on West Nile virus A University of Arizona study provides projections of how climate change may affect the populations of West Nile virus-carrying mosquitoes across the southern United States over the coming 40 years. While changes are expected to vary strongly with region,
2013-09-09 00:00:00
Climate change will upset vital ocean chemical cycles New research from the University of East Anglia shows that rising ocean temperatures will upset natural cycles of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and phosphorous.Plankton plays an important role in the ocean's carbon cycle by removing half of all CO2 from the at
2013-09-08 00:00:00
Reverse combustion? Turning carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuel back into fuel With almost 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide released each year from burning coal, gasoline, diesel and other fossil fuels in the United States alone, scientists are seeking ways to turn the tables on the number one greenhouse gas and convert it back int
2013-09-08 00:00:00
VIDEO: Turning waves into electricity Two thirds of people in the UK would like to see more wind farms and renewable energy sources built in their area, a survey has revealed.
2013-09-05 08:47:28
Deep-ocean carbon sinks Although microbes that live in the so-called "dark ocean"-- below a depth of some 600 feet where light doesn't penetrate-- may not absorb enough carbon to curtail global warming, they do absorb considerable amounts of carbon and merit further st
2013-09-05 00:00:00
Relocation, relocation Scientists at the Zoological Society of London have devised a novel method to identify suitable new homes for animals under threat from climate change.
2013-09-05 00:00:00
Global warming has increased risk of record heat, say Stanford scientists Researchers calculate that intense heat like that in the summer of 2012 is up to four times more likely to occur now than in pre-industrial America, when there was much less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
2013-09-05 00:00:00
Clues in coral bleaching mystery Coral reefs are tremendously important for ocean biodiversity. Unfortunately they have been in great decline in recent years, much of it due to the effects of global climate change. One such effect, called bleaching, occurs when the symbiotic algae that a
2013-09-05 00:00:00
'Five Minutes to Midnight' as Climate Change Endgame Threatens <div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/index_23.jpg" style="width
2013-09-03 16:32:00
UF scientists encounter holes in tree of life, push for better data storage When it comes to public access, the tree of life has holes.A new study co-authored by University of Florida researchers shows about 70 percent of published genetic sequence comparisons are not publicly accessible, leaving researchers worldwide unable to g
2013-09-03 00:00:00
Climate 'drives crop pest spread' Global warming is helping pests and diseases that attack crops to spread around the world, a study suggests.
2013-09-02 01:10:56
Prehistoric climate change due to cosmic crash in Canada For the first time, a dramatic global climate shift has been linked to the impact in Quebec of an asteroid or comet, Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues report in a new study. The cataclysmic event wiped out many of the planet's large mammals and m
2013-09-02 00:00:00
Increased greenhouse gases and aerosols have similar effects on rainfall Although greenhouse gases and aerosols have very distinct properties, their effects on spatial patterns of rainfall change are surprisingly similar, according to new research from the University of Hawaii at Manoa's International Pacific Research Center a
2013-09-01 00:00:00
Spread of crop pests threatens global food security as Earth warms A new study has revealed that global warming is resulting in the spread of crop pests towards the North and South Poles at a rate of nearly 3 km a year. The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change and carried out by researchers at the Univer
2013-09-01 00:00:00
New insights on wildfire smoke could improve climate change models By viewing particles captured during the 2011 Las Conchas fire in New Mexico under a field emission scanning electron microscope, Michigan Tech scientists found that there's more to tar balls and soot than meets the naked eye.
2013-08-30 00:00:00
New Victim of Climate Change Revealed: East Antarctic Ice <div class='node-body'><p>A new <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7464/full/nature12382.html">study</a> reveals that the world's largest ice sheet, previously thought to be at little ri
2013-08-29 17:09:34
Wildfires projected to worsen with climate change A Harvard team's study suggests wildfire seasons by 2050 will be about three weeks longer, up to twice as smoky, and will burn a wider area in the western states. The findings are based on a set of internationally recognized climate scenarios, decades of
2013-08-28 00:00:00
Scientists shut down reproductive ability, desire in pest insects Entomologists have identified a neuropeptide named natalisin that regulates the sexual activity and reproductive ability of insects. The finding may open new possibilities for environmentally friendly pest management.
2013-08-26 00:00:00
Scientists analyze the extent of ocean acidification Ocean acidification (OA) could change the ecosystems of our seas even by the end of this century. Biologists at the Alfred Wegener Institute have assessed the extent of this ominous change. They compiled and analyzed all available data on the reaction of
2013-08-25 00:00:00
Insight into marine life's ability to adapt to climate change A study into marine life around an underwater volcanic vent in the Mediterranean, might hold the key to understanding how some species will be able to survive in increasingly acidic sea water should anthropogenic climate change continue.
2013-08-25 00:00:00
Carbon-sequestering ocean plants may cope with climate changes over the long run A year-long experiment on tiny ocean organisms called coccolithophores suggests that the single-celled algae may still be able to grow their calcified shells even as oceans grow warmer and more acidic in Earth's near future. The study stands in contrast t
2013-08-25 00:00:00
Coastal change 'risk' to wildlife Coastal species such as puffins and little terns could be "seriously affected" by climate change, the National Trust says.
2013-08-23 05:19:51
Cold climate helps southern penguins Scientists say that changes in the climate are a critical factor causing changes in Antarctic penguin populations.
2013-08-22 17:58:21
Beetles modify emissions of greenhouse gases from cow pats Cattle contribute to global warming by burping and farting large amounts of greenhouse gases. Some of the same gases are also emitted from cow pats on pastures. But now researchers from the University of Helsinki have found that beetles living in cow pats
2013-08-22 00:00:00
Home cooking, traffic are sources of key air pollutants from China Almost 80 percent of air pollution involving soot that spreads from China over large areas of East Asia -- impacting human health and fostering global warming -- comes from city traffic and other forms of fossil-fuel combustion, such as home cooking with
2013-08-21 00:00:00
Rural energy impacts to be reviewed The government is conducting an inquiry into the impact of electricity infrastructure on rural areas, which will include wind farms, pylons, solar panels and hydropower - but not shale gas fracking.
2013-08-20 18:03:55
Epic ocean voyages of coral larvae revealed A computer simulation using University of Miami's Connectivity Modeling System and conducted in collaboration with the University of Bristol has revealed the epic, ocean-spanning journeys traveled by millimeter-sized coral larvae through the world's seas.
2013-08-20 00:00:00
Scots red deer 'breeding earlier' Scientists studying the impact of climate change on Scotland's red deer say the breeding season for the species is getting earlier.
2013-08-18 23:04:30
New model helps universities map their nitrogen footprint The first institution-level model to estimate the amount of reactive nitrogen released into the environment -- a contributor to smog, acid rain, and climate change -- is enabling the University of Virginia to quantify its nitrogen footprint and take steps
2013-08-15 00:00:00
How will crops fare under climate change? Depends on how you ask The damage scientists expect climate change to do to crop yields can differ greatly depending on which type of model was used to make those projections, according to research based at Princeton University.
2013-08-14 00:00:00
Study explains early warming of West Antarctica at end of last ice age West Antarctica began emerging from the last ice age about 22,000 years ago -- well before other regions of Antarctica and the rest of the world. Scientists say that changes in the amount of solar energy triggered the warming of West Antarctica and the su
2013-08-14 00:00:00
Multifold increase in heat extremes by 2040 Extremes such as the severe heat wave last year in the US or the one 2010 in Russia are likely to be seen much more often in the near future. A few decades ago, they were practically absent. Today, due to man-made climate change monthly heat extremes in s
2013-08-14 00:00:00
Heat waves to become more frequent and severe Climate change is set to trigger more frequent and severe heat waves in the next 30 years regardless of the amount of carbon dioxide we emit into the atmosphere, a new study has shown.
2013-08-14 00:00:00
Changing climate may have driven collapse of civilizations in Late Bronze Age Climate change may have driven the collapse of once-flourishing Eastern Mediterranean civilizations towards the end of the 13th century BC, according to research published Aug. 14 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by David Kaniewski from the University
2013-08-14 00:00:00
AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 13, 2013 In this release: "An earthquake in Japan caused large waves in Norwegian fjords," "Disposal of Marcellus Shale fracking waste caused earthquakes in Ohio," "The Arctic is especially sensitive to black carbon emissions from within t
2013-08-13 00:00:00
Scientists look into Earth's 'deep time' to predict future effects of climate change Climate change alters the way in which species interact with one another -- a reality that applies not just to today or to the future, but also to the past, according to a paper published by a team of researchers in this week's issue of the journal Scienc
2013-08-12 00:00:00
Infectious diseases and climate change intersect with no simple answers Climate change is already affecting the spread of infectious diseases -- and human health and biodiversity worldwide -- according to disease ecologists reporting research results in this week's issue of the journal Science.
2013-08-12 00:00:00
Study finds novel worm community affecting methane release in ocean Scientists have discovered a super-charged methane seep in the ocean off New Zealand that has created its own unique food web, resulting in much more methane escaping from the ocean floor into the water column. It will not make it into the atmosphere, whe
2013-08-12 00:00:00
Soil biodiversity crucial to future land management and response to climate change Research by scientists at The University of Manchester and Lancaster shows maintaining healthy soil biodiversity can play an important role in optimising land management programmes to reap benefits from the living soil.The findings, published in the lates
2013-08-12 00:00:00
Young or old, song sparrows experience climate change differently from each other What's good for adults is not always best for the young, and vice versa. At least that is the case with song sparrows and how they experience the effects of climate change, according to two recent studies by scientists at the University of California, Dav
2013-08-12 00:00:00
Chinese Ship's Historic Route Marks Sign of Warming Times <div class='node-body'><p>A 19,000-tonne Chinese cargo ship has become the country's <a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2013-08/10/content_16884541.htm">first to use the Northeast Passage</a> to
2013-08-11 16:38:43
Chinese Ship's Historic Route Marks Sign of Warming Times <div class='node-body'><p>A 19,000-tonne Chinese cargo ship has become the country's <a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2013-08/10/content_16884541.htm">first to use the Northeast Passage</a> to
2013-08-11 16:38:43
A path to better MTV-MOFs A team of Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers have developed a method for accurately predicting the ability of MTV-MOFs (multivariate metal organic frameworks) to scrub carbon dioxide from the exhaust gases of fossil fuel power plants.
2013-08-08 00:00:00
UI researcher finds human activity muddies causes of Texas floods Periodic flooding in Texas -- one the most flood-prone states in the nation -- cannot be firmly linked to climate change due to numerous dams and other man-made structures introduced over the years, according to a University of Iowa study published in the
2013-08-08 00:00:00
Shift to a Low-Carbon Economy? Global Investors Say Yes <div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/financethefuture.jpg" style=&qu
2013-08-07 15:15:24
NOAA report highlights climate change threats to nation's estuaries The nation's 28 National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERR) are experiencing the negative effects of human and climate-related stressors according to a new NOAA research report from the National Ocean Service. The national study, Climate Sensitivity of th
2013-08-07 00:00:00
Dartmouth-led team discovers how plants avoid sunburn A Dartmouth-led team has discovered a group of stress-related proteins that explains how plants avoid sunburn in intense light, a finding that one day could help biotechnologists to develop crops that can better cope with hotter, drier conditions occurrin
2013-08-06 00:00:00
Marine life spawns sooner as oceans warm Warming oceans are impacting the breeding patterns and habitat of marine life, effectively re-arranging the broader marine landscape as species adjust to a changing climate, according to a three-year international study published today in Nature Climate C
2013-08-06 00:00:00
New trap and lure captures bed bugs more effectively According to a new article in the Journal of Economic Entomology, an effective and affordable bed bug monitor can be made by incorporating a new pitfall trap design, a chemical lure, and a sugar-and-yeast mixture to produce carbon dioxide.
2013-08-06 00:00:00
Tom Bowman's Climate Report delves into Arctic methane controversy Tom Bowman, climate science communications expert and host of the Climate Report with Tom Bowman, interviews economist Chris Hope and oceanographer Peter Wadhams, two of the three authors of an article in the journal Nature that has stirred scientific con
2013-08-05 00:00:00
Looking to the past to predict the future of climate change Climate changes how species interact with one another -- and not just today. Scientists are studying trends from fossil records to understand how climate change impacted the world in the ancient past and to identify ways to predict how things may change i
2013-08-05 00:00:00
Carbon emissions to impact climate beyond the day after tomorrow Future warming from fossil fuel burning could be more intense and longer-lasting than previously thought. This prediction emerges from a new study by Richard Zeebe at the University of Hawai'i who includes insights from episodes of climate change in the g
2013-08-05 00:00:00
UCSB study finds climate change is causing modifications to marine life behavior Oceans cover 71 percent of the Earth's surface, yet our knowledge of the impact of climate change on marine habitats is a mere drop in the proverbial ocean compared to terrestrial systems. An international team of scientists set out to change that by cond
2013-08-04 00:00:00
Global investigation reveals true scale of ocean warming Warming oceans are causing marine species to change breeding times and shift homes with expected substantial consequences for the broader marine landscape, according to a new global study.
2013-08-04 00:00:00
Study: Today's Climate Change is 10X Faster Than Any Climate Shift Ever Recorded <div class='node-body'><p>The world's climate is changing 10 times faster than at any other point in the past 65 million years, Stanford climate scientists Noah Diffenbaugh and Chris Field have found in a new study published
2013-08-02 19:00:54
Cobalt replacements make solar cells more sustainable Researchers at the University of Basel have successfully replaced the rare element iodine in copper-based dye-sensitized solar cells by the more abundant element cobalt, taking a step forward in the development of environmentally friendly energy productio
2013-08-02 00:00:00
Rise in violence 'linked to climate' Changes in climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world, a study by US scientists suggests.
2013-08-01 23:34:57
Desert 'carbon farming' to curb CO2 Researchers say that planting large amounts of trees in deserts could cheaply and effectively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
2013-08-01 14:45:47
VIDEO: The birth of modern forecasting A plaque is being unveiled at a Scottish weather observatory to mark 100 years since the arrival of the man credited with creating modern meteorology.
2013-08-01 09:37:22
UCI-led team develops more accurate model of climate change's effect on soil Scientists from UC Irvine and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have developed a new computer model to measure global warming's effect on soil worldwide that accounts for how bacteria and fungi in soil control carbon.
2013-08-01 00:00:00
Cool heads likely won't prevail in a hotter, wetter world Researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley report that even slight spikes in temperature and precipitation greatly increase the risk of personal and civil violence, and suggest that more human conflict is a likely outc
2013-08-01 00:00:00
Extreme wildfires likely fueled by climate change Climate change is likely fueling the larger and more destructive wildfires that are scorching vast areas of the American West, according to new research led by Michigan State University scientists.
2013-08-01 00:00:00
Aerial pictures reveal climate change As a result of climate change, certain undesirable aquatic plants are starting to invade German water bodies. Even popular recreation areas like Lake Starnberg have been affected, leading to a growing need to monitor the spread of these plants. Up to now,
2013-08-01 00:00:00
Climate change occurring 10 times faster than at any time in past 65 million years Not only is the planet undergoing one of the largest climate changes in the past 65 million years, Stanford climate scientists report that it's occurring at a rate 10 times faster than any change in that period. Without intervention, this extreme pace cou
2013-08-01 00:00:00
As climate, disease links become clearer, study highlights need to forecast future shifts Climate change is affecting the spread of infectious diseases worldwide, according to an international team of leading disease ecologists, with serious impacts to human health and biodiversity conservation. Writing in the journal Science, they propose tha
2013-08-01 00:00:00
Temperature alters population dynamics of common plant pests Temperature-driven changes alter outbreak patterns of tea tortrix -- an insect pest -- and may shed light on how temperature influences whether insects emerge as cohesive cohorts or continuously, according to an international team of researchers. These fi
2013-08-01 00:00:00
Future warming: Issues of magnitude and pace Researchers reviewed the likelihood of continued changes to the terrestrial climate, including an analysis of a collection of 27 climate models. If emissions of heat-trapping gases continue along the recent trajectory, 21st century mean annual global war
2013-08-01 00:00:00
Sediment trapped behind dams makes them 'hot spots' for greenhouse gas emissions With the "green" reputation of large hydroelectric dams already in question, scientists are reporting that millions of smaller dams on rivers around the world make an important contribution to the greenhouse gases linked to global climate change
2013-07-31 00:00:00
Could planting trees in the desert mitigate climate change? As the world starts feeling the effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and consequent global temperature rise, researchers are looking for a Plan B to mitigate climate change. A group of German scientists has now come up with an environmentally
2013-07-31 00:00:00
Sequestration and fuel reserves A technique for trapping the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide deep underground could at the same be used to release the last fraction of natural gas liquids from ailing reservoirs, thus offsetting some of the environmental impact of burning fossil fuels. So
2013-07-30 00:00:00
Radio waves carry news of climate change Prof. Colin Price of Tel Aviv University has discovered that radio waves reflecting back to earth from the ionosphere can offer valuable news about the extent of climate change. His simple, cost-effective measurement can be a valuable contribution to the
2013-07-30 00:00:00
Ice-free Arctic winters could explain amplified warming during Pliocene Year-round ice-free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why the Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to new res
2013-07-29 00:00:00
Global warming endangers South American water supply Chile and Argentina may face critical water storage issues due to rain-bearing westerly winds over South America's Patagonian Ice-Field to moving south as a result of global warming.
2013-07-29 00:00:00
New knowledge about permafrost improving climate models New research findings from the Centre for Permafrost at the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, document that permafrost during thawing may result in a substantial release of carbon dioxide into the atmosph
2013-07-28 00:00:00
The Scariest Lake in the World Sits at the North Pole <div class='node-body'><p>The pristine Arctic ice of the North Pole has now melted into a lake.</p>
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2013-07-26 16:23:13
The Scariest Lake in the World Sits at the North Pole <div class='node-body'><p>The pristine Arctic ice of the North Pole has now melted into a lake.</p>
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2013-07-26 16:23:13
Seaside trash and treasure With stormy weather forecast, conservationists consider the best and worst things that will be washing up on British beaches.
2013-07-26 01:45:16
What can plants reveal about global climate change? While the media continues to present climate change as a controversial issue, many scientists are working hard to gather data, collaborate across disciplines, and use experimental and modeling techniques to track how organisms and ecosystems are respondin
2013-07-26 00:00:00
KXL, 'Climate Hypocrisy' and Obama's Big Time Coal Problem <div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/front_page.jpg" style="wid
2013-07-25 19:34:42
Trust in leaders, sense of belonging stir people to safeguard common goods, analysis shows Charitable contributions are at historical lows, fossil fuel reserves are shrinking, and climate change threatens the future of our planet. A new report published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest discusses the scientific findings on the coo
2013-07-25 00:00:00
Deciphering the air-sea communication A German-Russian research team has investigated the role of heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere in long-term climate variability in the Atlantic. The scientists analyzed meteorological measurements and sea surface temperatures over the past 130 yea
2013-07-25 00:00:00
Global warming to cut snow water storage 56 percent in Oregon watershed A new report projects that by the middle of this century there will be an average 56 percent drop in the amount of water stored in peak snowpack in the McKenzie River watershed of the Oregon Cascade Range -- and that similar impacts may be found on low-el
2013-07-25 00:00:00
Harvesting electricity from the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide A new method for producing electricity from carbon dioxide could be the start of a classic trash-to-treasure story for the troublesome greenhouse gas, scientists are reporting. Described in an article in ACS' newly launched journal, Environmental Science
2013-07-23 00:00:00
VIDEO: Seeds stored as climate insurance Seeds collected from Northern Italy are being brought back to the UK and stored as an insurance policy against the potentially devastating impact of climate change.
2013-07-22 16:44:51
When college diversity delivers benefits: UMD study The benefits of race-conscious college admissions are only fully realized under certain conditions, concludes new University of Maryland-led research. To stimulate meaningful cross-racial engagement, incoming freshman classes should reflect both race and
2013-07-22 00:00:00
A scientific experiment is able to create a wave that is frozen in time Scientists at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid and the University of California -- San Diego have created, in a laboratory, a static pipeline wave, with a crest that moves neither forward nor backward. This research will allow improvement in boat and
2013-07-22 00:00:00
Major global analysis offers hope for saving the wild side of staple food crops Global efforts to adapt staple foods like rice, wheat and potato to climate change have been given a major boost today as new research shows the whereabouts of their wild cousins -- which could hold beneficial qualities to help improve crops and make them
2013-07-22 00:00:00
Tropical ecosystems regulate variations in Earth's carbon dioxide levels Rising temperatures, influenced by natural events such as El Niño, have a corresponding increase in the release of carbon dioxide from tropical forest ecosystems, according to a new study out today.
2013-07-22 00:00:00
Current efforts will not save the world's most endangered cat Almost 100 million euros has been spent so far on conservation efforts for the last 250 remaining Iberian lynxes in the wild. But the charismatic species is likely to go extinct within 50 years because the current management plans do not account for the e
2013-07-21 00:00:00
Ancient ice melt unearthed in Antarctic mud Global warming five million years ago may have caused parts of Antarctica's large ice sheets to melt and sea levels to rise by approximately 20 meters, scientists report today in the journal Nature Geoscience.
2013-07-21 00:00:00
Iberian lynx threatened by climate change Climate change could drive the Iberian lynx -- the world's most threatened cat -- to extinction within 50 years, despite substantial ongoing conservation efforts, a new international study has found.
2013-07-21 00:00:00
Purple sunlight eaters A protein found in the membranes of ancient microorganisms that live in desert salt flats could offer a new way of using sunlight to generate environmentally friendly hydrogen fuel, according to a new study by researchers at the US Department of Energy's
2013-07-19 00:00:00
Stanford expert says Internet's backbone can readily be made more sustainable The US Department of Energy has announced that it wants to establish minimum energy efficiency standards for all computers and servers sold in the United States. A new Stanford study shows that large server farms can, in fact, cut electricity use and gree
2013-07-19 00:00:00
Climate change could deprive Volta Basin of water needed to boost energy and food production A new study released today finds that so much water may be lost in the Volta River Basin due to climate change that planned hydroelectric projects to boost energy and food production may only tread water in keeping up with actual demand. Some 24 million p
2013-07-18 00:00:00
Victory on Climate Curriculum! Thanks to thousands of students like you taking action, Michael Gove has abandoned plans to drop climate change from the geography national curriculum.
2013-07-17 18:21:20
Climate Change 'Climate of Fear': Reporter Blows Whistle on Reuters <div class='node-body'><p>Former <em>Reuters</em> climate change reporter David Fogarty blew the whistle Monday on the global media giant's growing hostility to reporting on the climate change crisis, including a
2013-07-17 15:46:45
CIA Funding Climate Manipulation Study <div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/nasa_geoengineering.jpg" style=
2013-07-17 15:45:52
Human-driven change on Argentine forests A new report by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Disease Ecology Laboratory of Instituto de Ciencias Veterinarias del Litoral, Argentina shows that increases in precipitation and changes in vegetative structure in Argentine forests -- factors dri
2013-07-16 00:00:00
Changing atmosphere affects how much water trees need Spurred by increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, forests over the last two decades have become dramatically more efficient in how they use water.
2013-07-16 00:00:00
Revealed the keys to reducing the impact of agriculture on climate change Land is not being used to its best advantage according to a new study by Ikerbasque Professor Unai Pascual from the Basque Centre for Climate Change and University of Cambridge, and a team of environmental economists from Europe.
2013-07-16 00:00:00
Each degree of global warming might ultimately raise global sea levels by more than 2 meters Greenhouse gases emitted today will cause sea level to rise for centuries to come. Each degree of global warming is likely to raise sea level by more than 2 meters in the future, a study now published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2013-07-16 00:00:00
The Line Islands Collection -- Microbial dynamics of coral reef robustness and decline Coral reefs face serious threats primarily arising from climate change, unsustainable fishing, and pollution. To better understand the underlying processes, a multidisciplinary series of studies is being conducted by researchers, investigating variability
2013-07-16 00:00:00
