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Hidden, local climate impacts of drought-friendly vegetation
Aug 09, 2016 (SPX)
To address the recent drought in California, policymakers have created incentives for homeowners to replace existing lawns with drought tolerant vegetation. How...
U of T researchers reduce climate-warming CO2 to building blocks for fuels
Aug 08, 2016 (SPX)
Turning carbon dioxide into stored energy sounds like science fiction: researchers have long tried to find simple ways to convert this greenhouse gas into fuels...
How soil carbon feedbacks could affect climate change
Aug 05, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new 'route planner' tool that could help conservationists aid the movement of species as they adapt t...
Mountain environments more vulnerable to climate change than previously reported
Aug 05, 2016 (SPX)
New research by University of Montana forest landscape ecology Professor Solomon Dobrowski shows that organisms will face more hardships as they relocate when c...
Australia boosts climate science research in u-turn
Aug 04, 2016 (AFP)
Australia made an abrupt climate change u-turn Thursday, with the issue set to again become a key focus of the national science agency just months after it saw ...
Severe 2015 Indonesian Fire Season Linked to El Nino Drought
Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)
An especially dry period from July to October in Indonesia, a result of the 2015-16 El Nino, contributed to a severe fire season and significant carbon and poll...
Global heat, sea level hit record highs in 2015
Aug 02, 2016 (AFP)
Global heat, greenhouse gases and sea levels all climbed to record highs last year, making 2015 the worst in modern times across a range of key environmental in...
Evolution drives how fast plants could migrate with climate change
Aug 02, 2016 (SPX)
New research from the University of British Columbia suggests evolution is a driving mechanism behind plant migration, and that scientists may be underestimatin...
Utah State University geologists probe geological carbon storage
Jul 29, 2016 (SPX)
Effective carbon capture and storage or "CCS" in underground reservoirs is one possible way to meet ambitious climate change targets demanded by countries and i...
CO2 can be stored underground for 10 times the length needed to avoid climatic impact
Jul 29, 2016 (SPX)
Study of natural-occurring 100,000 year-old CO2 reservoirs shows no significant corroding of 'cap rock', suggesting the greenhouse gas hasn't leaked back out - ...
Aid agencies seek $1.2 billion to fight southern Africa drought
Jul 28, 2016 (AFP)
Humanitarian agencies said Thursday that they need $1.2 billion in critical aid for seven drought-stricken countries in southern Africa, as the El Nino weather ...
Historical Records Miss a Fifth of Global Warming
Jul 26, 2016 (JPL)
A new NASA-led study finds that almost one-fifth of the global warming that has occurred in the past 150 years has been missed by historical records due to quir...
Stanford researchers reveal cost-effective path to drought resiliency
Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)
Strained by drought in recent years, California desperately needs more resilient water supplies. An affordable solution that provides a wide range of benefits i...
Scientists find evidence of planetary carbon release valve
Jul 26, 2016 (UPI)
New evidence suggests the carbon cycle has a natural release valve -- a built-in upper limit to the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. Some 56 million year...
Philippines reviewing 'crazy' climate pledges: Duterte
Jul 23, 2016 (AFP)
The Philippines is reviewing its "crazy" commitment to severely cut greenhouse-gas emissions in the Paris climate deal, new President Rodrigo Duterte has warned...
We're lucky climate change didn't happen sooner
Jul 22, 2016 (SPX)
There is some consolation in how the fossil fuel-induced climatic changes we increasingly experience through droughts and storm surges are playing out. It could...
Groundwater discharge to upper Colorado River Basin varies in response to drought
Jul 21, 2016 (SPX)
Groundwater discharge that flows into the Upper Colorado River Basin varies in response to drought, which is likely due to aquifer systems that contain relative...
EU defies Brexit with climate targets
Jul 20, 2016 (AFP)
The EU unveiled national targets Wednesday for cutting greenhouse gases by 2030, insisting Britain is still legally required to help the bloc meet its UN goal d...
Long-awaited breakthrough in the reconstruction of warm climate phases
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have overcome a seeming weakness of global climate models. The...
Researchers create means to monitor anthropogenic global warming in real time
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
A research team including a Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego climate scientist simulated in a computer model, for t...
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