Preparing for climate change-induced weather disasters The news sounds grim: Mounting scientific evidence indicates climate change will lead to more frequent and intense extreme weather that affects larger areas and lasts longer. However, we can reduce the risk of weather-related disasters with a variety of m
2013-02-16 00:00:00
Thawing Permafrost May Be “Huge Factor” in Global Warming <div class='node-body'><p><span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><img alt="" border="0" src="/sites/commondreams.org/files/imce-images/permafrost_pattern_640-629x441.jpg&q
2013-02-15 18:27:08
Statistics help clear fog for better climate change picture Statistics is an important tool in sorting through information on how human activities are affecting the climate system, as well as how climate change affects natural and human systems, according to a Penn State statistician.
2013-02-15 00:00:00
Climate change's costly wild weather consequences University of Illinois atmospheric sciences professor Donald Wuebbles will present a talk about how climate change is increasing the number of severe weather events at the 2013 AAAS meeting.
2013-02-15 00:00:00
'Carbon Fee & Dividend' Bill Introduced to Battle 'Planetary Emergency' of C <div class='node-body'><p>The day after two new opinion polls revealed overwhelming public support for "significant action on tackling climate change"—and several days ahead of a planned climate rally in W
2013-02-14 18:44:57
Climate scientist Schellnhuber to brief UN Security Council As climate change starts being recognized as a security issue on the highest international levels, Pakistan and the United Kingdom have asked Hans Joachim Schellnhuber of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research to speak at an in-depth discussion
2013-02-14 00:00:00
Scientists develop improved fire management tools for Africa's savannas Scientists at the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Centre and partners have developed specialized graphs that map out fire behavior, known as nomographs, for landscape managers in Africa's savannas. The study, published in the February issue of the Journa
2013-02-14 00:00:00
Wetland trees a significant overlooked source of methane, study finds Wetland trees are a significant overlooked source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, according to a new study by researchers at The Open University and the Universities of Bristol and Oxford. The study, led by Dr Vincent Gauci of The Open University an
2013-02-13 00:00:00
On Climate, A Call for Obama to Speak Forcefully and Act Urgently <div class='node-body'><p>Following his remarks on climate change made during his inaugural address last month, progressives and environmentalists are making it clear what they want and expect from President Obama on Tuesday night wh
2013-02-12 16:15:55
Cities can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent, says U of T researcher Cities can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by implementing aggressive but practical policy changes, says a new study by University of Toronto Civil Engineering Professor Chris Kennedy and World Bank climate change specialist Lorraine Sugar,
2013-02-12 00:00:00
Southwest regional warming likely cause of pinyon pine cone decline, says CU study Creeping climate change in the Southwest appears to be having a negative effect on pinyon pine reproduction, a finding with implications for wildlife species sharing the same woodland ecosystems, says a University of Colorado Boulder-led study.
2013-02-12 00:00:00
Africa edited over climate change The BBC re-edited the final episode of David Attenborough's nature series, Africa, to remove a piece of commentary about climate change, it has emerged.
2013-02-11 15:11:19
A new Harvard report probes security risks of extreme weather and climate change A new study, conducted specifically to explore the forces driving extreme weather events and their implications for national security planning over the next decade, finds that the early ramifications of climate extremes resulting from climate change are a
2013-02-11 00:00:00
From grains of volcanic glass to continental rifting: New Geosphere articles now online New Geosphere articles posted online 11 Jan. and 5 Feb. 2013 include additions to the "Origin and Evolution of the Sierra Nevada and Walker Lane" series, the "Neogene Tectonics and Climate-Tectonic Interactions in the Southern Alaskan Oroge
2013-02-11 00:00:00
AGU Journal Highlights -- Feb. 11, 2013 Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: "Global climatology of explosive cyclones," "For US biomes, climate change will decrease vegetative productivity," "Lightning detected from space can indicate t
2013-02-11 00:00:00
Sunlight stimulates release of climate-warming gas from melting Arctic permafrost Ancient carbon trapped in Arctic permafrost is extremely sensitive to sunlight and, if exposed to the surface when long-frozen soils melt and collapse, can release climate-warming carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere much faster than previously thought.
2013-02-11 00:00:00
Carbon sponge could soak up coal emissions Emissions from coal power stations could be drastically reduced by a new, energy-efficient material that adsorbs large amounts of carbon dioxide, then releases it when exposed to sunlight.
2013-02-11 00:00:00
Poll: Americans back climate change regulation, not taxes Now that President Obama has put climate change back on the table in his second inaugural address, a new national poll finds growing public support for regulating greenhouse gas emissions and requiring utilities to switch to lower-carbon fuel sources.
2013-02-07 00:00:00
New evidence suggests comet or asteroid impact was last straw for dinosaurs While many assume that a comet or asteroid impact killed off the dinosaurs, the actual dates of the impact and extinction are imprecise enough that some have questioned the connection. UC Berkeley and Berkeley Geochronology Center scientists have now date
2013-02-07 00:00:00
Minnesota's Moose in 'Precipitous' Decline <div class='node-body'><p>The moose population in Minnesota is in "precipitous" decline, the state's Department of Natural Resources <a href="http://news.dnr.state.mn.us/2013/02/06/moose-population-d
2013-02-06 20:03:35
Smartphones, tablets help scientists improve storm forecasts Atmospheric scientists are using pressure readings from some new smartphones and tablet computers to improve thunderstorm forecasts. A weather station in every pocket would offer an unprecedented wealth of data.
2013-02-06 00:00:00
Predicting a low carbon future for Toronto Cities are major players in the climate change game. More than half of the world's population lives in urban areas and over 70 percent of global GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions can be attributed to cities. A case study of Toronto demonstrates alternative s
2013-02-06 00:00:00
Profiting from climate change The climate is getting warmer, and sea levels are rising -- a threat to island nations. As a group of researchers lead by the University of Bonn found out, at the same time, tiny single-cell organisms are spreading rapidly through the world's oceans, wher
2013-02-06 00:00:00
Lungs of the planet reveal their true sensitivity to global warming The amount of carbon dioxide that rainforests absorb, or produce, varies hugely with year-to-year variations in the climate. In a paper published online this week (Feb. 6 2013) by the journal Nature, a team of climate scientists from the University of Exe
2013-02-06 00:00:00
Volcano location could be greenhouse-icehouse key A new Rice University-led study suggests that Earth's repeated flip-flopping between greenhouse and icehouse climates during the past 500 million years may have been caused by an episodic flare-up of volcanoes at key locations where enormous amounts of ca
2013-02-06 00:00:00
Blowing hot and cold: US belief in climate change shifts with weather A study of American attitudes toward climate change finds that local weather -- temperature, in particular -- is a major influence on public and media opinions on the reality of global warming.
2013-02-05 00:00:00
Polar bear researchers urge governments to act now and save the species A University of Alberta polar bear researcher along with eleven international co-authors are urging governments to start planning for rapid Arctic ecosystem change to deal with a climate change catastrophe for the animals.
2013-02-04 00:00:00
Climate change impacts to US coasts threaten public health, safety and economy According to a new technical report, the effects of climate change will continue to threaten the health and vitality of US coastal communities' social, economic and natural systems. The report, Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities: a technical
2013-02-04 00:00:00
February 2013 story tips from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Precise optical imaging is vital for better diagnosis of breast cancer. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and New Mexico State University have produced a graphene sheet 40 inches in diagonal. By studying the effects of climate change on the Gul
2013-02-04 00:00:00
Physicians' roles on the front line of climate change Physicians can and should help mitigate the negative health effects of climate change because they will be at the forefront of responding to the effects of global warming, argues an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
2013-02-04 00:00:00
Survey reveals fault lines in views on climate change Climate change is a hotly debated issue among many scientists, but a new study published by a University of Alberta researcher notes that geoscientists and engineers also become embroiled in the issue -- and for some, it can get surprisingly personal.
2013-02-04 00:00:00
Climate change clues from tiny marine algae -- ancient and modern Microscopic ocean algae called coccolithophores are providing clues about the impact of climate change both now and many millions of years ago. The study found that their response to environmental change varies between species, in terms of how quickly the
2013-02-03 00:00:00
How do corals survive in the hottest reefs on the planet? Coral reefs are predicted to decline under the pressure of global warming. However, a number of coral species can survive at seawater temperatures even higher than predicted for the tropics during the next century. How they survive, while most species can
2013-02-01 00:00:00
Increases in extreme rainfall linked to global warming A worldwide review of global rainfall data led by the University of Adelaide has found that the intensity of the most extreme rainfall events is increasing across the globe as temperatures rise.
2013-02-01 00:00:00
Seattle Joins Campuses in Nationwide Effort to Divest from Fossil Fuel <div class='node-body'><p>Citing the damage caused by climate change, the city of Seattle's public employees may sell off their pension fund's holdings in some of the world's largest fossil fuel companies as p
2013-01-31 16:04:50
New study highlights impact of environmental change on older people Recent natural disasters illustrate vulnerability of older people: majority of deaths from the Great East Japan Earthquake (2011) and Hurricane Katrina (2005) occurred among older people.Researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University
2013-01-31 00:00:00
Planting trees may not reverse climate change but it will help locally Please fine below and attached a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Carbon Balance and Management that looks into afforestation and how planting trees in an area where there have previously been no trees, can reduce the effect of clim
2013-01-31 00:00:00
Ozone depletion trumps greenhouse gas increase in jet-stream shift Depletion of Antarctic ozone is a more important factor than increasing greenhouse gases in shifting the Southern Hemisphere jet stream in a southward direction, according to researchers at Penn State.
2013-01-31 00:00:00
Scientist: Ozone thinning has changed ocean circulation A hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has changed the way that waters in the southern oceans mix, a situation that has the potential to alter the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and eventually could have an impact on global climate change.
2013-01-31 00:00:00
'Development' at Any Cost: US Coasts Left 'Extremely Vulnerable' to Climate Chan <div class='node-body'><p>The coastal United States is more vulnerable to the dramatic effects of global warming than ever because of rampant over-development and the subsequent destruction of protective coastal wetlands and sand dun
2013-01-30 18:47:38
Report: Climate Change Has Already Brought Catastrophe to US Wildlife <div class='node-body'><p>Climate change has already pushed the nation's wildlife into crisis, according to a <a href="http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/Media-Center/Reports/Archive/2013/01-30-13-Wildlife-In-A-War
2013-01-30 15:58:29
In beef production, cow-calf phase contributes most greenhouse gases A new study shows that nursing cows are a major source of methane in beef production. By better understanding cattle nutrition and methane emissions, the beef industry could reduce environmental impact.
2013-01-30 00:00:00
GEOLOGY starts 2013 with 25 new articles posted online ahead of print Geology content posted online 4 through 25 Jan. 2013 cover topics from greenhouse gas emissions to video observations of erupting geysers in Russia and from the age of Earth to the age of Grand Canyon. Highlights and detailed information about each articl
2013-01-30 00:00:00
First mobile app for green chemistry fosters sustainable manufacturing of medicines Mention mobile applications, or mobile apps, and people think of games, email, news, weather, productivity and other software for Apple, Android and other smart phones and tablet computers. But an app with broader impact -- the first mobile application to
2013-01-30 00:00:00
New research shows complexity of global warming Global warming from greenhouse gases affects rainfall patterns in the world differently than that from solar heating, according to a study in the January 31 issue of Nature by an international team of scientists led by Jian Liu (Chinese Academy of Science
2013-01-30 00:00:00
Emission trading schemes limit green consumerism Schemes that aim to regulate greenhouse gas emissions can limit consumers' attempts to reduce their carbon footprints, according to an economist at the University of East Anglia.
2013-01-29 00:00:00
UK firm in weather satellite deal The UK satellite manufacturer SSTL will make the follow-on spacecraft for a weather forecasting system that uses GPS signals.
2013-01-28 17:50:29
Dirty Coal Still Supreme, But Wind Surpasses Nuclear Energy In China <div class='node-body'><p>China's use of wind-generated electricy has overtaken nuclear power to become the third largest energy source in the country.</p>
<p>But wind power still only supplies 2 percent of the co
2013-01-28 16:03:02
Changes needed to save resources Governments need to improve material efficiency to avoid a global resource crunch and dangerous climate change, say scientists.
2013-01-28 01:01:48
Climate change projected to alter Indiana bat maternity range Research by U.S. Forest Service scientists forecasts profound changes over the next 50 years in the summer range of the endangered Indiana bat. In an article published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, Forest Service Southern Research Station research
2013-01-28 00:00:00
EARTH: Drinking toilet water Would you drink water from a toilet? What if that water, once treated, was cleaner than what comes out of the faucet? Although the imagery isn't appealing, as climate change and population growth strain freshwater resources, such strategies are becoming
2013-01-28 00:00:00
Study finds energy use in cities has global climate effects The heat generated by everyday energy consumption in metropolitan areas is significant enough to influence the character of major atmospheric circulation systems. This includes the jet stream during winter months, and causes continental-scale surface warm
2013-01-28 00:00:00
New research will help shed light on role of Amazon forests in global carbon cycle Scientist Jeffrey Chambers and colleagues at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have devised an analytical method that combines satellite images, simulation modeling and painstaking fieldwork to help researchers detect for
2013-01-28 00:00:00
New Report Shows Extent of 'Kochtopus' Empire of Climate Denial <div class='node-body'><p>Charles and David Koch, a.k.a. the Koch Bros.—who have come to represent the face (or faces) of the US conservative movement and its primary, though certainly not only, source of private funding&am
2013-01-25 17:26:32
Global warming less extreme than feared? Policymakers are attempting to contain global warming at less than two degrees Celsius. New estimates from a Norwegian project on climate calculations indicate this target may be more attainable than many experts have feared.
2013-01-25 00:00:00
Groundwater fate and climate change Simon Fraser University earth scientist Diana Allen, a co-author on a new paper about climate changes' impacts on the world's ground water, says climate change may be exacerbating many countries' experience of water stress. In Ground Water and Climate Cha
2013-01-25 00:00:00
Antibiotic 'apocalypse' warning The rise in drug resistant infections is comparable to the threat of global warming, according to the chief medical officer for England.
2013-01-24 13:18:55
The storm that never was: Why the weatherman is often wrong Have you ever woken up to a sunny forecast only to get soaked on your way to the office? On days like that it's easy to blame the weatherman.But BYU engineering professor Julie Crockett doesn't get mad at meteorologists. She understands something that ver
2013-01-24 00:00:00
Underwater CO2 shows potential as barrier to Asian carp As the Asian carp population grows and the threat of the invasive species entering Lake Michigan through one of the Chicago canals is monitored, a University of Illinois researcher believes using two barrier methods is better than one.Cory Suski experimen
2013-01-23 00:00:00
New way to identify 'smoked' grapes and wines With climate change sparking concern about an increased risk of wildfires, scientists are reporting development of a way to detect grapes exposed to smoke from those fires, which otherwise could be vented into bad-tasting wine. Their report on the method
2013-01-23 00:00:00
Santiago, Chile, will get drier and warmer Already nowadays 10 percent or more of the population in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile is affected by extreme heat or floods. These threats will tend to increase due to the continuous expansion of the Chilean capital, the consequent changes
2013-01-23 00:00:00
Climate change could cause massive losses in Pyrenees ski resorts An increase in temperatures due to climate change could mean that the Andorran ski resorts have a shorter season in the future, especially in lower areas. A study undertaken by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the Andorran Sustainability Observ
2013-01-23 00:00:00
Greenland ice cores reveal warm climate of the past Between 130,000 and 115,000 years ago, Earth's climate was warmer than today. But how much warmer and what did it mean for the sea levels? As we face global warming, the answer to these questions is becoming very important. New research from the NEEM icec
2013-01-23 00:00:00
Goldman Sach's Food Speculation Turns Global Hunger Into Wall Street Profit <div class='node-body'><p>As the world's most vulnerable populations succumb to surging global food prices—driven in part by drought, climate change, and a global food system increasingly vulnerable to the whims of
2013-01-22 17:33:14
Geoengineering Schemes: Destroying the Earth to Save It? <div class='node-body'><p>If world leaders refuse to follow the sane advice of climate scientists and innovators in sustainable energy and agriculture much longer, it should be noted that there's a group of people out in the
2013-01-22 12:52:26
USDA studies confirm plant water demands shift with water availability Plants can adapt to extreme shifts in water availability, such as drought and flooding, but their ability to withstand these extreme patterns will be tested by future climate change, according to a study by USDA scientists and their cooperators.
2013-01-22 00:00:00
Public acceptance of climate change affected by word usage Public acceptance of climate change's reality may have been influenced by the rate at which words moved from scientific journals into the mainstream, according to anthropologist Michael O'Brien, dean of the College of Arts and Science at the University of
2013-01-22 00:00:00
Unprecedented glacier melting in the Andes blamed on climate change Glaciers in the tropical Andes have been retreating at increasing rate since the 1970s, scientists write in the most comprehensive review to date of Andean glacier observations. The researchers blame the melting on rising temperatures as the region has wa
2013-01-22 00:00:00
Researchers analyse 'rock dissolving' method of geoengineering The benefits and side effects of dissolving particles in our ocean's surfaces to increase the marine uptake of carbon dioxide, and therefore reduce the excess amount of it in the atmosphere, have been analyzed in a new study published today.
2013-01-21 00:00:00
Warmer soils release additional CO2 into atmosphere; Effect stabilizes over longer term Warmer temperatures due to climate change could cause soils to release additional carbon into the atmosphere, thereby enhancing climate change - but that effect diminishes over the long term, finds a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change. The stu
2013-01-20 00:00:00
Study: Planet's Lungs Under Assault From Climate Change <div class='node-body'><p>A recent NASA-led study shows how areas of the Amazon rainforest, often referred to as the lungs of the planet, are victims of climate change, suffering persistent effects of droughts, which may change &
2013-01-18 16:11:36
Climate change's effects on temperate rain forests surprisingly complex Longer, warmer growing seasons associated with a changing climate are altering growing conditions in temperate rain forests, but not all plant species will be negatively affected, according to research conducted by the US Forest Service's Pacific Northwes
2013-01-18 00:00:00
Climate change to profoundly affect the Midwest in coming decades In the coming decades, climate change will lead to more frequent and more intense Midwest heat waves while degrading air and water quality and threatening public health. Intense rainstorms and floods will become more common, and existing risks to the Grea
2013-01-18 00:00:00
A global approach to monitoring biodiversity loss In contrast to climate change, there is no coordinated global system in place for measuring and reporting on biodiversity change or loss. An international team of biologists is now addressing this gap.
2013-01-17 00:00:00
Climate events drive a high-arctic vertebrate community into synchrony Climate change is known to affect the population dynamics of single species, such as reindeer or caribou, but the effect of climate at the community level has been much more difficult to document. Now, a group of Norwegian scientists has found that extrem
2013-01-17 00:00:00
New Antarctic geological timeline aids future sea-level predictions Radiocarbon dates of tiny fossilized marine animals found in Antarctica's seabed sediments offer new clues about the recent rapid ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and help scientists make better predictions about future sea-level rise. This reg
2013-01-16 00:00:00
Photovoltaics beat biofuels at converting sun's energy to miles driven In 2005, President George W. Bush and American corn farmers saw corn ethanol as a promising fossil fuel substitute that would reduce both American dependence on foreign oil and greenhouse gas emissions. Accordingly, the 2005 energy bill mandated that 4 bi
2013-01-16 00:00:00
Soot 'has bigger role in warming' New research says that black carbon, or soot, is making a much larger contribution to global warming than previously recognised.
2013-01-15 17:59:49
Global warming may have severe consequences for rare Haleakalā silverswords While the iconic Haleakala silversword plant made a strong recovery from early 20th-century threats, it has now entered a period of substantial climate-related decline. New research published this week warns that global warming may have severe consequence
2013-01-15 00:00:00
Black carbon larger cause of climate change than previously assessed Black carbon has a much greater (twice the direct) climate impact than reported in previous assessments.Black carbon ranks "as the second most important individual climate-warming agent after carbon dioxide".Cleaning up diesel engines and some w
2013-01-15 00:00:00
Report: Waiting to Act on Climate Change Would Cost $5 Trillion <div class='node-body'><p>With increasing temperatures and extreme weather proving that climate change is well underway, a leading scientist reports that failing to take action before 2020 will increase the costs of addressing it by
2013-01-14 16:12:10
Politicians 'deserve climate credit' Politicians in 32 major economies are passing laws that reduce greenhouse gas emissions despite the deadlock in UN climate negotiations, says report.
2013-01-14 01:08:02
Will changes in climate wipe out mammals in Arctic and sub-Arctic areas? The climate changes depicted by climatologists up to the year 2080 will benefit most mammals that live in northern Europe's Arctic and sub-Arctic land areas today if they are able to reach their new climatic ranges. This is the conclusion drawn by ecologi
2013-01-14 00:00:00
Amino acid studies may aid battle against citrus greening disease Amino acids in orange juice might reveal secrets to the successful attack strategy of the plant pathogen that causes citrus greening disease, also known as Huanglongbing or HLB. Studies of these amino acids by USDA scientists and cooperators may pave the
2013-01-14 00:00:00
Global warming has increased monthly heat records by a factor of 5 Monthly temperature extremes have become much more frequent, as measurements from around the world indicate. On average, there are now five times as many record-breaking hot months worldwide than could be expected without long-term global warming, shows a
2013-01-14 00:00:00
As Climate Crisis Grows Urgent, New York Times Shutters 'Environment Desk' <div class='node-body'><p>With the world drowning in climate change related news—including <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/08-7">2012 as the hottest year</a> on record and more &l
2013-01-11 14:01:43
VIDEO: More scorching weather for Australia Weather forecasters in Australia say the weekend will see the return of the scorching temperatures which have added to the ferocity of bushfires in the south-east of the country.
2013-01-09 22:42:35
Despite 'Year of Extremes' Corporate Media Continues to Ignore Climate Crisis <div class='node-body'><p>If 2012 was the year that climate change made its undeniable mark on the world, a new report confirms that corporate news outlets in the US completely refused the opportunity to cover it.</p></div&g
2013-01-09 17:19:43
Hurtling Towards Climate Chaos: US Oil Production Set to Explode <div class='node-body'><p>Projections released Tuesday that US oil production is set to surge to record levels shows the US continuing down the path of runaway climate change.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/i
2013-01-09 17:07:59
Mathematics and weather and climate research The US component of a major world-wide scientific initiative begins Jan. 9 in San Diego: Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE2013). This year-long effort will highlight contributions of mathematics in tackling global problems, including natural disasters, cli
2013-01-09 00:00:00
Study finds Jurassic ecosystems were similar to modern: Animals flourish among lush plants In modern ecosystems, animals flourish amid lush vegetation. That was true 150 million years ago too, says a new study by paleontologist Timothy Myers, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Myers applied ecological principles to geochemical data from fos
2013-01-08 00:00:00
Global warming beneficial to ratsnakes Speculation about how animals will respond to climate change due to global warming led University of Illinois researcher Patrick Weatherhead and his students to conduct a study of ratsnakes at three different latitudes -- Ontario, Illinois, and Texas. His
2013-01-08 00:00:00
Study: Trees Grown for Biofuel Damage Ozone <div class='node-body'><p>Fast-growing trees cultivated to produce biofuel are contributing to, not mitigating against, the looming catastrophe of climate change according to a new study in the journal <em>Nature Climate Chang
2013-01-07 16:44:13
Major cuts to surging CO2 emissions are needed now, not down the road, study finds Halting climate change will require "a fundamental and disruptive overhaul of the global energy system" to eradicate harmful carbon dioxide emissions, not just stabilize them, according to new findings by UC Irvine and other scientists.
2013-01-07 00:00:00
Heat-resistant corals provide clues to climate change survival In a future shaped by climate change, only the strong -- or heat-resistant -- will survive. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences opens a window into a genetic process that allows some corals to withstand unusually high
2013-01-07 00:00:00
A new approach to assessing future sea level rise from ice sheets Future sea level rise due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could be substantially larger than estimated in Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, according to new research from the University of Bristol.
2013-01-06 00:00:00
Coral records suggest that recent El Nino activity rises above noisy background By examining a set of fossil corals that are as much as 7,000 years old, scientists have dramatically expanded the amount of information available on the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, a Pacific Ocean climate cycle that affects climate worldwide. The new i
2013-01-03 00:00:00
The laws of global warming A University of Iowa law professor believes the legal ramifications of geo-engineering need to be thought through now and a global governance structure put in place soon to oversee these efforts to fight climate change.
2013-01-02 00:00:00
Toward reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of the Internet and telecommunications Amid growing concern over the surprisingly large amount of greenhouse gas produced by the Internet and other telecommunications activities, researchers are reporting new models of emissions and energy consumption that could help reduce their carbon footpr
2013-01-02 00:00:00
New study documents the natural relationship between CO2 concentrations and sea level By comparing reconstructions of atmospheric CO2 concentrations and sea level over the past 40 million years, researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton have found that greenhouse gas concentrations similar to the present (almost 40
2013-01-02 00:00:00
Nature: Political action the biggest swing factor in meeting climate targets The most important factor affecting the likelihood of limiting climate change to internationally agreed targets is when people start to do something about it, according new research from IIASA, ETH Zurich, and other institutions.
2013-01-02 00:00:00
Turbines installed at wind farm One of the world's largest offshore wind farms off the east Kent coast is on target to become fully operational in the spring.
2012-12-26 17:14:32
'Ominous' New Research: Earth's Coldest Regions Warming Fastest <div class='node-body'><p>The litany of extreme weather events this year and the mounting discoveries supplied by climate scientists have made 2012 a year in which the realities of a warmer planet make ignoring the impacts of human c
2012-12-24 13:59:23
Smaller Colorado River projected for coming decades, study says Some 40 million people depend on the Colorado River Basin for water but warmer weather from rising greenhouse gas levels and a growing population may signal water shortages ahead. In a new study in Nature Climate Change, climate modelers at Columbia Unive
2012-12-23 00:00:00
Ups and downs of biodiversity after mass extinction The climate after the largest mass extinction so far 252 million years ago was cool, later very warm and then cool again. Thanks to the cooler temperatures, the diversity of marine fauna ballooned, as paleontologists from the University of Zurich have rec
2012-12-21 00:00:00
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2012-12-20 17:01:02
Report: Ecosystems in Upheaval, Biodiversity in Collapse <div class='node-body'><p>A new report documents how climate change is already causing rapid, massive changes with "cascading effects" on ecosystems and biodiversity.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://d
2012-12-20 13:47:41
Origin of life emerged from cell membrane bioenergetics A coherent pathway which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells, has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.
2012-12-20 00:00:00
Geo-engineering against climate change Plans for seeding the oceans with iron fail to take into account several factors that could scupper those plans, according to Daniel Harrison of the University of Sydney Institute of Marine Science, NSW, Australia, writing in the International Journal of
2012-12-19 00:00:00
Pics, shoots and leaves: Ecologists turn digital cameras into climate change tools As digital cameras become better and cheaper, ecologists are turning these ubiquitous consumer devices into scientific tools to study how forests are responding to climate change. And, they say, digital cameras could be a cost-effective way of visually mo
2012-12-19 00:00:00
Affects of climate change to birds worsened by housing development Although climate change may alter the distributions of many species, changes in land use may compound these effects. Now, a new study by PRBO Conservation Science (PRBO) suggests that the effects of future housing development may be as great or greater th
2012-12-19 00:00:00
Hastening Climate Change, Worldwide Coal Consumption to Increase Within 5 Years <div class='node-body'><p>Only weeks after climate change talks in Doha produced no significant plan to address climate change, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday that coal will likely rival oil as the world's large
2012-12-18 15:56:11
Chances seen rising for chikungunya outbreaks in NYC, Atlanta, Miami Global travel and climate warming could be creating the right conditions for outbreaks of a new virus in this country, according to a new Cornell University computer model that predicts outbreaks of chikungunya, a painful virus transported by travelers an
2012-12-17 00:00:00
AGU: Journal highlights 17 Dec., 2012 Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: "First satellite detection of volcanogenic carbon monoxide," "Antarctic sea ice thickness affects algae populations," "Central European Summer Temperature Varia
2012-12-17 00:00:00
Boreal bird species of conservation concern affected by climate change A new study shows that species of conservation concern show contrasting population trends in boreal protected areas in Finland. In general, population densities of southern species have increased while densities of northern species have decreased.
2012-12-17 00:00:00
'Missing' polar weather systems could impact climate predictions Intense but small-scale polar storms could make a big difference to climate predictions according to new research from the University of East Anglia and the University of Massachusetts. Difficult-to-forecast polar mesoscale storms occur frequently over th
2012-12-16 00:00:00
Nature Climate Change: Action by 2020 key for limiting climate change Limiting climate change to target levels will become much more difficult to achieve, and more expensive, if action is not taken soon, according to a new analysis from IIASA, ETH Zurich, and NCAR.
2012-12-16 00:00:00
Poll: Climate Change Skeptics Swayed by Extreme Weather, Not Scientists <div class='node-body'><p>Extreme weather events such as Hurricane Sandy and record temperatures are convincing skeptics far more than scientists are that climate change is taking place, according to a <a href="http://ap-gfkp
2012-12-15 18:34:32
Poll: Climate Change Skeptics Swayed by Extreme Weather, Not Scientists <div class='node-body'><p>Extreme weather events such as Hurricane Sandy and record temperatures are convincing skeptics far more than scientists are that climate change is taking place, according to a <a href="http://ap-gfkp
2012-12-15 18:34:32
Wind farm impact to be examined The firm behind a planned offshore wind farm on the south coast of England says it will look to see how it can "mitigate" campaigners' concerns.
2012-12-15 15:20:24
IPCC critical of report leak The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change criticises a blogger who publishes a draft version of its next report.
2012-12-14 17:32:45
Citing Climate Change, Democrat AGs Sue Obama's EPA over Methane Emissions <div class='node-body'><p>The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/08">climate talks</a> at Doha are only the latest in a series of recent failures by US leadership to take a strong stance agai
2012-12-12 16:34:55
Will climate change cause water conflict? Climate change plays a secondary role in the origin or aggravation of social conflicts linked to water. Political discourses must avoid directly linking climate change with social conflict and human insecurity, without taking into account other political
2012-12-12 00:00:00
Climate modelers see possible warmer, wetter Northeast winters by 2070 A new high-resolution climate study by University of Massachusetts Amherst climate scientists, the first to apply regional climate models to examine likely near-term changes in temperature and precipitation across the Northeast United States, suggests tem
2012-12-12 00:00:00
More ice loss through snowfall on Antarctica Stronger snowfall increases future ice discharge from Antarctica. Global warming leads to more precipitation as warmer air holds more moisture -- hence earlier research suggested the Antarctic ice sheet might grow under climate change. Now a study publish
2012-12-12 00:00:00
Cloud forest trees drink water through their leaves Using water flow sensors and plastic "leaves" that measure wetness, UC Berkeley biologists Todd Dawson and Greg Goldsmith have discovered that trees living in tropical montane cloud forests drink through their leaves as well as their roots. This
2012-12-12 00:00:00
