Health care accounts for 8 percent of US carbon footprint The American health-care sector accounts for nearly a tenth of the country's carbon dioxide emissions, according to a first-of-its-kind calculation of health care's carbon footprint. Published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association,
2009-11-10 00:00:00
Maldives anger at climate inertia The president of the Maldives strongly criticises the world's rich countries for doing too little to stem climate change.
2009-11-09 07:31:22
Antarctica glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store Large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas of open water left exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula. This remarkable colonization is having a beneficial imp
2009-11-09 00:00:00
Engineers image nanostructure of a solid acid catalyst and boost its catalytic activity Aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and Raman, infrared and UV-visible spectroscopies pinpoint sub-nanometer clusters of tungsten oxide mixed with tiny amounts of zirconium as the active catalytic species in the catalyst.
2009-11-09 00:00:00
Studies 'overstate species risks' Some large-scale studies appear to overestimate the threats of climate change on biodiversity, a study suggests.
2009-11-06 16:25:37
Getting warm Where key players stand on a deal to halt climate change
2009-11-06 08:57:55
Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which appears to show that the current warming and wid
2009-11-06 00:00:00
Climate deal 'unlikely' this year The UK government has admitted that a new legally binding global treaty on climate change is highly unlikely to be agreed this year.
2009-11-05 21:26:36
Climate Justice Now! Speaker Tour Come and hear the first-hand experiences of those affected by climate change and the impact of oil extraction in a city near you
2009-11-05 16:04:46
Carbon trading 'the next sub-prime' - new research Plans to expand carbon markets at UN climate talks this December could trigger a second ‘sub-prime' style financial collapse and fail to protect the world from global warming catastrophe, a new report from Friends of the Earth warns today.
2009-11-05 01:01:01
Researchers hail innovative plan to save rainforest, reduce greenhouse gas emissions An innovative proposal by the Ecuadorian government to protect an untouched, oil rich region of Amazon rainforest is a precedent-setting and potentially economically viable approach, says a team of environmental researchers from the University of Maryland
2009-11-05 00:00:00
Obama urges new effort on climate Barack Obama urges the US and EU to re-double efforts to achieve success at the climate change summit in Copenhagen.
2009-11-04 01:10:55
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil rejects greenhouse gas emissions standards The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has today decided not to include greenhouse gas emissions standards in its certification criteria - yet further evidence that palm oil cannot be a sustainable biofuel
2009-11-04 01:01:01
Calm before the spawn: Climate change and coral spawning Robert van Woesik, a biologist at the Florida Institute of Technology, explains why corals spawn for just a few nights in some places but elsewhere string out their love life over many months. The study shows that corals spawn when regional wind fields a
2009-11-04 00:00:00
Texas A&M prof to predict weather on Mars Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, drastically low temperatures and out-of-this-world dust
2009-11-04 00:00:00
Paleoecologists offer new insight into how climate change will affect organisms An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science written by a team of ecologists, including Robert Booth, assistant professor of earth and environmental science at Lehigh University, examines some of the potential problems with current pre
2009-11-04 00:00:00
Study gives clearer picture of how land-use changes affect US climate A study by researchers from Purdue University and the universities of Colorado and Maryland concluded that greener land cover contributes to cooler temperatures, and almost any other change leads to warmer temperatures.
2009-11-03 00:00:00
Counting carbon Distant targets will not halt dangerous climate change
2009-11-02 17:54:15
Climate change will burn Yosemite Scientists unravel how warming temperatures will trigger more wild fires in California's Yosemite National Park.
2009-11-02 10:17:15
Climate variability impacts the deep sea Deep-sea ecosystems occupying 60 percent of the Earth's surface could be vulnerable to the effects of global warming warn scientists writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2009-11-02 00:00:00
Deep-sea ecosystems affected by climate change The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of the Earth's surface and are important in global carbon cycling. Based on long-term studies of two such areas, a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows
2009-11-02 00:00:00
EU strikes climate funding deal EU leaders agree a conditional deal to help other nations fight global warming, ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit.
2009-10-30 16:20:00
EU seeks to resolve climate rift EU leaders will try to break an impasse over funds to help poor countries fight global warming, on the last day of their summit.
2009-10-30 07:44:53
Denmark in climate deal warning Denmark warns about the risks to a global climate change deal being done in time, as EU leaders gather for a key summit.
2009-10-29 10:21:53
In pictures An inventory of species threatened by climate change
2009-10-28 16:30:12
Want money for projects to help your uni go greener? Student-led projects to cut carbon emissions and raise awareness of climate change are key to universities going greener. Use our new, simple online tool to collect student support for a CO-2 fund at your uni and get your Transition project ideas off
2009-10-28 15:19:04
Climate change - £6.50 loaf will leave millions hungry in the UK £6.50 for a loaf of bread, £7 for a box of cornflakes and £18 for a pint of beer - these are the eye watering prices we could face in 2030 unless urgent action is taken to prevent dangerous climate change.
2009-10-28 01:01:01
Australia coastal living at risk A new report warns that coastal life - favoured by most Australians - could become impossible due to climate change.
2009-10-27 13:16:35
Lord Stern right to highlight carbon impact of food chain Friends of the Earth welcomed Lord Stern's comments on cutting carbon today, and reiterated the importance of fixing the food chain to help tackle climate change.
2009-10-27 01:01:01
Coalition calls for climate change to be put at heart of planning system Friends of the Earth and the Town and Country Planning Association have launched a coalition campaign in Parliament today that calls on the Government to put climate change at the heart of the planning system.
2009-10-27 01:01:01
Global warming cycles threaten endangered primate species One of the first-ever analyses of the effects of global warming on endangered primates has examined how El Niño warming has affected the abundance of four highly threatened New World monkeys. All four monkey species showed drops in abundance relatin
2009-10-27 00:00:00
Volcanoes played pivotal role in ancient ice age, mass extinction Researchers here have discovered the pivotal role that volcanoes played in a deadly ice age 450 million years ago. Perhaps ironically, these volcanoes first caused global warming -- by releasing massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Whe
2009-10-26 00:00:00
Simple measures can yield big greenhouse gas cuts, scientists say New technologies and policies that save energy, remove atmospheric carbon and limit greenhouse gas emissions are needed to fight global climate change -- but face daunting technological, economic and political hurdles, a Michigan State University scientis
2009-10-26 00:00:00
Arctic sediments show that 20th century warming is unlike natural variation The possibility that climate change might simply be a natural variation like others that have occurred throughout geologic time is dimming, according to evidence in a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper.
2009-10-23 00:00:00
'Stealth' wind turbine deployed Radar-absorbing wind turbine blades could help solve the radar interference issues that preclude some new wind farms.
2009-10-22 16:37:57
Miscounting bioenergy benefits may increase greenhouse gas release A fixable error in the way carbon is counted in current US climate legislation and in the Kyoto Protocol could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by using biofuels, says a premier group of national environmental and land use scientists.
2009-10-22 00:00:00
Treaty to limit CO2 should be followed by similar limits on other greenhouse pollutants While carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas and the focus of climate treaties, other pollutants that stay in the atmosphere for only days or months also contribute to global warming. UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate Stacy Jackson argues in Science that pol
2009-10-22 00:00:00
Accounting error in climate treaties could lead to more deforestation A team of 13 prominent scientists and land-use experts has identified an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules for bioenergy that could, if uncorrected, undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gases by encouraging deforestation. In a Scienc
2009-10-22 00:00:00
New study predicts future consequences of a global biofuels program A report examining the impact of a global biofuels program on greenhouse gas emissions during the 21st century has found that carbon loss stemming from the displacement of food crops and pastures for biofuels crops may be twice as much as the CO2 emission
2009-10-22 00:00:00
India-China climate change deal Two of the world's biggest polluters, India and China, sign an agreement to work together on addressing climate change.
2009-10-21 17:49:07
'Scary' UK climate ad faces probe A £6m government ad warning about climate change is to be investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority.
2009-10-21 10:26:02
Glacial melting may release pollutants in the environment Those pristine-looking Alpine glaciers now melting as global warming sets in may explain the mysterious increase in persistent organic pollutants in sediment from certain lakes since the 1990s, despite decreased use of those compounds in pesticides, elect
2009-10-21 00:00:00
High Court decision: Treasury can ignore climate change and human rights A High Court judge today blocked a request for permission to hold a Judicial Review over what campaigners say is the Treasury-s lack of adequate environmental and human rights consideration of Royal Bank of Scotland-s investments.
2009-10-20 22:21:05
Seismic noise unearths lost hurricanes Seismologists have found a new way to piece together the history of hurricanes in the North Atlantic -- by looking back through records of the planet's seismic noise. It's an entirely new way to tap into the rich trove of seismic records, and the strategy
2009-10-20 00:00:00
US coal peak production: Point and counterpoint A timely debate on "United States Coal Peak Production" will enliven the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Portland, Ore., today. Experts David Rutledge of Cal Tech, and Robert Milici of the US Geological Survey, will presen
2009-10-20 00:00:00
As Greenland melts Not that long ago -- the blink of a geologic eye -- global temperatures were so warm that ice on Greenland could have been hard to come by. Today, the largest island in the world is covered with ice 1.6 miles thick. Even so, Greenland has become a hot spo
2009-10-19 00:00:00
Global warming may spur increased growth in Pacific Northwest forests Global warming in the next century could cause a significant increase in the productivity of high-elevation forests of the Pacific Northwest, a new study suggests. However, forests at lower elevations -- which in recent years have accounted for more than
2009-10-19 00:00:00
Arctic lake sediments show warming, unique ecological changes in recent decades An analysis of sediment cores indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring at a remote Arctic lake are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused climate change, according to a new study led by the Univ
2009-10-19 00:00:00
PM warns of climate 'catastrophe' The UK faces a "catastrophe" of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree a deal on climate change, the prime minister will warn.
2009-10-18 23:29:30
Major economies must lead on tackling climate change Friends of the Earth called on rich countries attending the Major Economies Forum to put new money on the table to help developing countries grow cleanly and adapt to climate change.
2009-10-18 01:01:01
Study predicts seabed response to climate change CSIRO scientists have produced the first preliminary predictions of the potential impact of climate change on the Australian seabed.
2009-10-18 00:00:00
UK looks to break climate logjam The UK hopes to bridge divides over tackling climate change at a meeting representing the world's major economies in London.
2009-10-17 23:05:45
Scuba stunt Maldivians meet under water with climate change SOS
2009-10-17 15:01:19
Maldives cabinet makes a splash Maldives government ministers hold an underwater cabinet meeting to highlight the effects of global warming.
2009-10-17 09:13:06
Television has less effect on education about climate change than other forms of media A new study by George Mason University Communication Professor Xiaoquan Zhao suggests that watching television has no significant impact on viewers' knowledge about the issue of climate change. However, reading newspapers and using the Web seem to contrib
2009-10-16 00:00:00
Australia 'open' to atomic energy More Australians - nearly half - view nuclear power as useful in the fight against climate change, a new survey suggests.
2009-10-15 06:20:21
Climate change threatens rice production Once-in-a-lifetime floods in the Philippines, India's delayed monsoon, and extensive drought in Australia are taking their toll on this year's rice crops, demonstrating the vulnerability of rice to extreme weather.
2009-10-15 00:00:00
Arctic land and seas account for up to 25 percent of world's carbon sink In a new study in the journal Ecological Monographs, ecologists estimate that Arctic lands and oceans are responsible for up to 25 percent of the global net sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Under current predictions of global warming, this Arctic sink
2009-10-14 00:00:00
Arctic now traps 25 percent of World's carbon -- but that could change The arctic could potentially alter the Earth's climate by becoming a possible source of global atmospheric carbon dioxide. The arctic now traps or absorbs up to 25 percent of this gas but climate change could alter that amount, according to a study publi
2009-10-14 00:00:00
Growth versus global warming A study led by Newcastle University outlines how major cities must respond if they are to continue to grow in the face of climate change.
2009-10-13 00:00:00
Nitrogen mysteries in urban grasslands Urban grasslands are an extremely common, but poorly studied ecosystem type. Many receive high rates of fertilizer, creating concerns about nutrient runoff and greenhouse gas emissions. Recent research has been focused on long-term study plots to evaluate
2009-10-13 00:00:00
Setting sail in an ecological 'Earthship' Could sustainable architecture address pollution, climate change and resource depletion by helping us build self-sufficient, off-grid, housing from "waste," including vehicle tires and metal drinks containers? That's the question researchers at
2009-10-12 00:00:00
Hot and cold Whatever happened to global warming?
2009-10-09 15:22:46
Key new ingredient in climate model refines global predictions For the first time, climate scientists from across the country have successfully incorporated the nitrogen cycle into global simulations for climate change, questioning previous assumptions regarding carbon feedback and potentially helping to refine model
2009-10-09 00:00:00
Cameron's speech fails the environment David Cameron's speech at the Conservative Party conference today showed little vision on how Britain would tackle climate change.
2009-10-08 01:01:01
Gone to waste: how the UK burns money by dumping and incinerating resources The UK is throwing away over £650 million every year by dumping and incinerating waste which, if recycled, could save 19 million tonnes of greenhouse gases annually - equivalent to taking six million cars off the roads - Friends of the Earth said to
2009-10-07 01:01:01
New aluminum-water rocket propellant promising for future space missions Researchers are developing a new type of rocket propellant made of a frozen mixture of water and "nanoscale aluminum" powder that is more environmentally friendly than conventional propellants and could be manufactured on the moon, Mars and othe
2009-10-07 00:00:00
Water scarcity will create global security concerns Water scarcity as a result of climate change will create far-reaching global security concerns, says Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, chair of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, at the 2009 Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter,
2009-10-06 00:00:00
Logbooks may yield climate bounty Researchers turn to 18th Century ships' logbooks for weather data that could help our understanding of climate change.
2009-10-05 23:44:35
USGS Science Picks Do you want to know more about the recent Samoa and Sumatra earthquakes? What's the latest climate change news? Did they really find water on the moon? And can male fish have female features? The answers are in this edition of Science Picks. Also, the nat
2009-10-05 00:00:00
Alfalfa sprouts key to discovering how meandering rivers form and maintain Restoring rivers to their natural state is now hit-and-miss, primarily because scientists don't really know what makes a river meander. A scale model using alfalfa sprouts to represent vegetation now shows that strong banks and fine sediment are key. With
2009-10-05 00:00:00
How will future sea-level rise linked to climate change affect coastal areas? The anticipated sea-level rise associated with climate change, including increased storminess, over the next 100 years and the impact on the nation's low-lying coastal infrastructure is the focus of a new, interdisciplinary study led by geologists at the
2009-10-05 00:00:00
There's still time to cut the risk of climate catastrophe, MIT study shows A new analysis of climate risk, published by researchers at MIT and elsewhere, shows that even moderate carbon-reduction policies now can substantially lower the risk of future climate change. It also shows that quick, global emissions reductions would be
2009-10-02 00:00:00
Britons creating 'more emissions' UK greenhouse gas emissions are probably twice as bad as figures suggest, says the government's chief energy scientist.
2009-09-30 23:53:31
American stance US climate change legislation will have worldwide impact
2009-09-30 21:02:55
Obama hails Senate climate bill US President Barack Obama welcomes the publication by Senate Democrats of draft legislation to combat climate change.
2009-09-30 19:49:56
$100bn a year for climate safety Adapting to impacts of climate change will cost the developing world up to $100bn per year, a World Bank study concludes.
2009-09-30 11:53:44
Is trash the solution to tackling climate change? Converting trashinto biofuel may be the answer to both the growing energy crisis and to tackling carbon emissions claims a paper in Global Change Biology: Bioenergy
2009-09-29 00:00:00
Burning problem Is Africa's charcoal trade worsening climate change?
2009-09-25 00:02:38
Burning problem Is Africa's charcoal trade worsening climate change?
2009-09-25 00:02:38
University of Calgary scientists find successful way to reduce bat deaths at wind turbines Scientists at the University of Calgary have found a way to reduce bat deaths from wind turbines by up to 60 percent without significantly reducing the energy generated from the wind farm. TransAlta has already applied the low wind mitigation strategy to
2009-09-25 00:00:00
UN 'inaction' Delays thwart Nepal's vital climate change plan
2009-09-24 10:02:14
Scientists begin earthworm count A project begins to count Scotland's earthworms in a bid to understand how climate change is affecting their numbers.
2009-09-24 09:43:28
Peruvian glacial retreats linked to European events of Little Ice Age A new study that reports precise ages for glacial moraines in southern Peru links climate swings in the tropics to those of Europe and North America during the Little Ice Age approximately 150 to 350 years ago. The study, published this week in Science, &
2009-09-24 00:00:00
North meets south? Glaciers move together in far-flung regions Results of a new study add evidence that climate swings in the northern hemisphere over the past 12,000 years have been tightly linked to changes in the tropics.The findings, published this week in the journal Science, suggest that a prolonged cold spell
2009-09-24 00:00:00
Castro praises Obama on climate Ex-Cuban President Fidel Castro praises President Obama's speech at the UN for its words on climate change.
2009-09-23 22:44:06
UN chief praises climate summit UN chief Ban Ki-moon says a one-day summit in New York has given fresh impetus to efforts to tackle global warming.
2009-09-23 01:49:12
'Green' roofs may help put lid on global warming "Green" roofs, those increasingly popular urban rooftops covered with plants, could help fight global warming, scientists in Michigan are reporting. Their study, the first of its kind to examine the ability of green roofs to sequester carbon whi
2009-09-23 00:00:00
Woody plants adapted to past climate change more slowly than herbs Can we predict which species will be most vulnerable to climate change by studying how they responded in the past? A new study of flowering plants provides a clue. An analysis of more than 5,000 species reveals that woody plants adapted to past climate ch
2009-09-23 00:00:00
Denver to Barcelona: Global cities and greenhouse gas emissions Denver released the largest amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) and Barcelona the smallest amount in a new study documenting how differences in climate, population density and other factors affect GHG emissions in global cities. The study, which could identi
2009-09-23 00:00:00
Scientists call for humanity to 'set safe boundaries to the damage' Humanity needs to act now to avoid threats to human well-being caused by irreversible damage to the Earth, its climate, species and life-supporting systems. Scientists say it has become essential to define what levels of such human-caused change are "
2009-09-23 00:00:00
Green Room Less developed countries discuss climate change
2009-09-22 09:15:42
Bid to jump-start climate talks World leaders are to meet to revitalise talks on climate change, with China expected to make major concessions.
2009-09-22 07:15:16
Our emotions can lead us astray when assessing risks, says new CU-Boulder study If you find yourself more concerned about highly publicized dangers that grab your immediate attention such as terrorist attacks, while forgetting about the more mundane threats such as global warming, you're not alone.
2009-09-22 00:00:00
Recession and policies cut carbon The global recession has brought a significant drop in greenhouse gas emissions, says the International Energy Agency.
2009-09-21 16:03:51
Brown may attend Copenhagen talks Brown's pledge to go to Copenhagen to help secure a climate deal has been welcomed - but Friends of the Earth says Government policies must also change.
2009-09-21 01:01:01
US tax breaks subsidize foreign oil production The largest US subsidies to fossil fuels are attributed to tax breaks that aid foreign oil production, according to research to be released on Friday by the Environmental Law Institute in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Schola
2009-09-18 00:00:00
Impact of renewable energy on our oceans must be investigated, say scientists Scientists from the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth are today calling for urgent research to understand the impact of renewable energy developments on marine life. The study, now published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, highlights potential enviro
2009-09-17 00:00:00
Study predicts effect of global warming on spring flowers An international study involving Monash University mathematician Dr. Malcolm Clark has been used to demonstrate the impact of global warming and to predict the effect further warming will have on plant life.
2009-09-17 00:00:00
Wiltshire council reconfirms commitment to fighting climate change Today Wiltshire Council overwhelmingly rejected a motion to withdraw the local authority from a national initiative to tackle climate change. Friends of the Earth has welcomed the result of the vote.
2009-09-16 01:01:01
Toward the design of greener consumer products Scientists are reporting development of a new method for screening molecules and predicting how certain materials, ranging from chemicals used in carpeting to electronics, will contribute to global warming. Their study is scheduled for the November 12 iss
2009-09-16 00:00:00
Bank urges climate 'action now' Rich countries must lift climate change spending and accept responsibility for their historical emissions, says the World Bank.
2009-09-15 14:27:31
Whitehall green drive 'saves £7m' The government says it has saved £7m in the last year by making its departments more environmentally friendly.
2009-09-15 01:22:31
University of Toronto study shows disparity of effect of climate change on UV radiation Physicists at the University of Toronto have discovered that changes in the Earth's ozone layer due to climate change will reduce the amount of ultraviolet radiation in northern high latitude regions such as Siberia, Scandinavia and northern Canada. Other
2009-09-15 00:00:00
Failure to tackle climate change spells a global health catastrophe An editorial and letter, published simultaneously by the BMJ and Lancet today, warn that failure to agree radical cuts in carbon dioxide emissions at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen this December spells a global health catastrophe.
2009-09-15 00:00:00
Texas A&M researcher shows possible link between 1918 El Niño and flu pandemic Research conducted at Texas A&M University casts doubts on the notion that El Niño has been getting stronger because of global warming and raises interesting questions about the relationship between El Niño and a severe flu pandemic 91 years
2009-09-14 00:00:00
Forest ecologist sees climate consequences Scientist Susan Prichard's story is the latest in a series of video shorts featured on TIME.com and produced by Princeton, NJ-based nonprofit Climate Central, an authoritative, non-advocacy source for science-based information about climate change. The se
2009-09-14 00:00:00
Sierra Nevada birds move in response to warmer, wetter climate If the climate is not quite right, birds will up and move rather than stick around and sweat it out, according to a new study led by UC Berkeley biologists. The findings reveal that most of the bird species studied in California's Sierra Nevada mountains
2009-09-14 00:00:00
The change in Arctic nature foreshadows the global environment of the future In Arctic areas, climate change is progressing faster than in any other location on Earth. Researchers at the University of Helsinki have participated in two new studies indicating that the changes are astonishingly fast. Many original species of Arctic a
2009-09-11 00:00:00
Man-made crises 'outrunning our ability to deal with them,' scientists warn The world faces a compounding series of crises driven by human activity, which existing governments and institutions are increasingly powerless to cope with, a group of eminent environmental scientists and economists has warned.Pointing to global action o
2009-09-11 00:00:00
UK climate scepticism spreads The British public has become more sceptical about climate change over the last five years, according to a survey.
2009-09-10 20:45:21
France set to impose carbon tax France's President Sarkozy announces plans for a new carbon tax aimed at combating global warming.
2009-09-10 11:37:53
Troublesome green algae serve as coating substrate in record-setting battery Unwanted blooms of Cladophora algae throughout the Baltic and in other parts of the world are not entirely without a positive side. A group of researchers at the Ångström Laboratory at Uppsala University have discovered that the distinctive cell
2009-09-10 00:00:00
Scientists seek new emphases in Arctic climate change research Much of circumpolar Arctic research focuses on the physical, direct changes resulting from climate warming such as sea ice retreat and temperature increases. "What's understudied is the living component of the Arctic and that includes humans," s
2009-09-10 00:00:00
IPY follow-up requires year-round research on Arctic and global warming Arctic and Antarctic research teams pulled back to warmer climates when the International Polar Year wrapped last March. But the call has gone out for a return to the poles for a more focused investigation into the effects of global warming. Leading the c
2009-09-10 00:00:00
Dramatic biological responses to global warming in the Arctic The Arctic as we know it may soon be a thing of the past, according to the research of a large, international team led by Eric Post, associate professor of biology at Penn State University. The team carried out ecosystem-wide studies of the biological re
2009-09-10 00:00:00
Planes 'to reset climate targets' The UK economy may have to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2050 to make space for aviation growth.
2009-09-09 06:34:45
Global warming causes outbreak of rare algae associated with corals, study finds Scientists have found a rare species of algae that is tolerant of stressful environmental conditions and that proliferated in Caribbean corals when the corals' more-sensitive algae were being expelled during the sea-temperature warming of 2005. The resea
2009-09-09 00:00:00
Japan vows big climate change cut Japan's PM-elect Yukio Hatoyama pledges a 25% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, much more than his predecessor.
2009-09-07 06:41:06
Genomes reveal bacterial lifestyles: Research Sampling just a few genes can reveal not only the "lifestyle" of marine microbes but of their entire environments, new research suggests.This means researchers may be able to predict the types of microbes that thrive in specific marine environme
2009-09-07 00:00:00
Harrabin's Notes How to spend $250bn tackling climate change
2009-09-04 21:53:14
Australia's warm winter a record Australia records its warmest ever winter - partly caused by climate change - and fears the coming bush fire season.
2009-09-03 05:11:36
The Arctic offers more evidence of human influences on climate change A new study indicates that Arctic temperatures suddenly increased during the last 50 years of the period from 1 AD to the year 2000. Because this warming occurred abruptly during the 20th century while atmospheric greenhouse gases were accumulating, these
2009-09-03 00:00:00
Recent Arctic warming reverses millennia-long cooling trend Warming from greenhouse gases has trumped the Arctic's millennia-long natural cooling cycle, suggests new research. Although the Arctic has been receiving less energy from the summer sun for the past 8,000 years, summer temperatures began climbing in 1900
2009-09-03 00:00:00
