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Could the Neolithic Revolution offer evidence of best ways to adapt to climate change?
Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)
Research led by the University of Plymouth shows that between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago, a major shift in climatic conditions led to the planet becoming signi...
Tiny chip-based methane spectrometer could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists from IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, developed the new methane spectrometer, which is smaller than today's standard spe...
Shortfall in climate action is 'catastrophic': UN
Oct 31, 2017 (AFP)
Even if fulfilled, these pledges -- inscribed along with the 2 C target in the 2015 Paris climate pact -- would see the world heat up 3 C (5.6 F), unleashing de...
At climate talks, it's America alone more than America first
Oct 30, 2017 (AFP)
Donald Trump has vowed to exit the Paris Climate accord, just not yet, leaving US policy in limbo for the next three years until Washington can officially leave...
Study reshapes understanding of climate change's impact on early societies
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
The team of researchers examined the hydroclimatic and societal impacts in Egypt of a sequence of tropical and high-latitude volcanic eruptions spanning the pas...
New study finds nature is vital to beating climate change
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
The peer-reviewed study, led by scientists from The Nature Conservancy and 15 other institutions , and published in the journal Proceedings of the National Acad...
Carbon dioxide levels lower than thought during super greenhouse period
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
The study found that carbon dioxide may have been less than 1000 parts per million, or ppm, during the Earth's early Eocene period. This runs counter to thinkin...
A drier south: Europe's drought trends match climate change projections
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
Their study, published Oct. 25 in Scientific Reports, shows that two major drought indices are deviating from one another across Europe in a manner consistent w...
IMF chief warns of 'dark future' over climate change
Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)
"If we don't address these issues... we will be moving to a dark future" in 50 years, she told a major economic conference in the Saudi capital. On climate chan...
GAO finds big U.S. costs from climate change
Oct 24, 2017 (UPI)
"The federal government has not undertaken strategic government-wide planning to manage climate risks by using information on the potential economic effects of ...
Nicaragua signs Paris climate agreement
Oct 23, 2017 (AFP)
The government of President Daniel Ortega said the global 2015 pact represented "the only international instrument that offers the conditions to face global war...
US ocean observation critical to understanding climate change
Oct 23, 2017 (SPX)
Ocean observing systems are important as they provide information essential for monitoring and forecasting changes in Earth's climate on timescales ranging from...
Geologic evidence is the forerunner of ominous prospects for a warming earth
Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)
A new analysis published in Marine Geology shows that the limestone islands of the Bahamas and Bermuda experienced climate changes that were even more extreme t...
As Paris climate goals recede, geoengineering looms larger
Oct 11, 2017 (AFP)
That, arguably, is akin to the mindset of climate scientists and policymakers brainstorming in Berlin this week on how to compensate for humanity's collective f...
British government unveils green spending plans
Oct 11, 2017 (UPI)
The British government is legally bound to a commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which are counted as the main contributors to climate change, by 80 per...
'Plan B': Seven ways to engineer the climate
Oct 11, 2017 (AFP)
"Plan A" remains tackling the problem at its source. But efforts to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions have fallen woefully short and cannot, most scientis...
Cheaper to invest in climate change fight than to rebuild; EPA chief rolls back US plans
Oct 10, 2017 (UPI)
Achim Steiner, the administrator at the U.N. Development Program, Patricia Espinosa, the climate chief at the United Nations, and Robert Glasser, the head of th...
Trump environment chief: US to end Obama climate plan
Oct 09, 2017 (AFP)
Speaking in Kentucky at a political event attended by coal miners, EPA chief Scott Pruitt said he would Tuesday "be signing a proposed rule to withdraw the so-c...
Ninety-eight scientists launch a 2,000-year global temperature database
Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)
"This is a shining example of large-scale cooperative science," says Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques, assistant professor in Concordia's Department of Geography, Plan...
Every economy at risk from climate change, IMF says
Oct 05, 2017 (UPI)
An annual report from the World Health Organization and UNICEF said global hunger is on the rise, affecting 11 percent of the world's population, in part becaus...
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