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Gas hydrate breakdown unlikely to cause massive greenhouse gas release
Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)
The breakdown of methane hydrates due to warming climate is unlikely to lead to massive amounts of methane being released to the atmosphere, according to a rece...
Scientists argue current climate change models understate the problem
Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)
A new study on the relationship between people and the planet shows that climate change is only one of many inter-related threats to the Earth's capacity to sup...
Researchers say climate models understate risk, ignore human factors
Feb 08, 2017 (UPI)
In a new scientific paper, researchers argue current climate models focus too heavily on atmospheric inputs and and outputs and ignore human-related factors. As...
Cape Town pools crack down on splashing as drought bites
Feb 08, 2017 (AFP)
Cape Town on Wednesday announced a crackdown on splashing and surfer shorts at the city's swimming pools in a bid to save water as a fierce drought plagues Sout...
Shifting monsoon altered early cultures in China
Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)
The annual summer monsoon that drops rain onto East Asia, an area with about a billion people, has shifted dramatically in the distant past, at times moving nor...
Land-use change possibly produces more carbon dioxide than assumed so far
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
CO2 emissions caused by changes of land use may possibly be higher than assumed so far. This is the outcome of a study made by the team of Professor Almut Arnet...
Role of biosphere counteracting climate change may be underestimated
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
New research suggests that the capacity of the terrestrial biosphere to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) may have been underestimated in past calculations due to cer...
EU ahead of the curve on climate fight
Feb 01, 2017 (UPI)
The European Union is taking the lead in the transition to a low-carbon era by meeting many of its stated goals, commissioners said Wednesday. In a report on it...
The ancient Indus civilization's adaptation to climate change
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
With climate change in our own era becoming increasingly evident, it's natural to wonder how our ancestors may have dealt with similar environmental circumstanc...
17 million face hunger in Horn of Africa due to drought
Jan 29, 2017 (AFP)
With very little rain in the last weeks and none expected for two months, more than 17 million people face hunger in the Horn of Africa, the UN food agency warn...
Study reveals that climate change could dramatically alter fragile mountain habitats
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
Mountain regions of the world are under direct threat from human-induced climate change which could radically alter these fragile habitats, warn an internationa...
Florida corals tell of cold spells and dust bowls past, foretell weather to come
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists seeking an oceanic counterpart to the tree rings that document past weather patterns on land have found one in the subtropical waters of Dry Tortugas...
Researchers report new understanding of global warming
Jan 25, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers know that more, and more dangerous, storms have begun to occur as the climate warms. A team of scientists has reported an underlying explanation, us...
Al Gore beats the climate drum as Trump takes office
Jan 20, 2017 (AFP)
A decade after "An Inconvenient Truth" sent shockwaves around the world with its dire warnings of environmental catastrophe, Al Gore is sounding the alarm on cl...
Climate change to shift global pattern of mild weather
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
As scientists work to predict how climate change may affect hurricanes, droughts, floods, blizzards and other severe weather, there's one area that's been overl...
Green Sahara's ancient rainfall regime revealed
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
Rainfall patterns in the Sahara during the 6,000-year "Green Sahara" period have been pinpointed by analyzing marine sediments, according to new research. What ...
New England's 1816 'Mackerel Year' and climate change today
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
Hundreds of articles have been written about the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history, at Indonesia's Mt. Tambora just over 200 years ago. But for a sm...
Climate science bedeviled by 'tipping points'
Jan 19, 2017 (AFP)
Of the many things that keep climate scientists awake at night, tipping points may be the scariest. To start with, these thresholds for deep, sometimes catastro...
Earth breaks heat record in 2016 for third year in a row
Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)
Last year, the Earth sweltered under the hottest temperatures in modern times for the third year in a row, US scientists said Wednesday, raising new concerns ab...
Study forecasts balmier England, even hotter Mumbai
Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)
Northern Europe, Canada and Russia will enjoy balmier winters by century's end even as the average number of mild days per year declines worldwide, a climate st...
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