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Climate tipping points: What do they mean for society
Jul 14, 2016 (SPX)
The phrase "tipping point" passed its own tipping point and caught fire after author Malcolm Gladwell's so-named 2000 book. It's now frequently used in discussi...
Gulf Stream slowdown to spare Europe from worst of climate change
Jul 14, 2016 (SPX)
Europe will be spared the worst economic impacts of climate change by a slowing down of the Gulf Stream, new research predicts. Scientists have long suggested t...
Singapore to build higher in climate change fight
Jul 11, 2016 (AFP)
Singapore will build its new airport terminal higher than the rest of the city and has constructed seawalls along much of its coastline in the fight against cli...
California droughts caused mainly by changes in wind, not moisture
Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)
Droughts in California are mainly controlled by wind, not by the amount of evaporated moisture in the air, new research has found. The findings were published i...
Climate study finds human fingerprint in Northern Hemisphere greening
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
A multinational team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory Climate Change Science Institute has found the first positive correlation b...
Controlled Colorado River flooding released stored greenhouse gases
Jun 30, 2016 (SPX)
The 2014 experimental controlled pulse of water to the Colorado River Delta has revealed an interesting twist on how large dry watercourses may respond to short...
Future global warming could be even warmer
Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)
Future global warming will not only depend on the amount of emissions from man-made greenhouse gasses, but will also depend on the sensitivity of the climate sy...
Britain's commitment firm on climate: secretary
Jun 29, 2016 (AFP)
Britain will not renege on its climate change commitments, energy and climate secretary Amber Rudd told investors on Wednesday, just days after her country vote...
94-million-year-old climate change event holds clues for future
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
A major climate event millions of years ago that caused substantial change to the ocean's ecological systems may hold clues as to how the Earth will respond to ...
Brexit throws spanner into EU climate policy
Jun 28, 2016 (AFP)
Britain's exit from the European Union may erode the bloc's leadership role in fighting climate change and stymie crucial efforts to set more ambitious targets ...
Estuaries like Chesapeake Bay could contribute more to global warming than once thought
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
We all know by now that methane is bad for the environment. It's one of those greenhouse gases that trap heat in the earth's atmosphere and contribute to our wa...
Ancient rocks yield hard facts on safe storage of greenhouse gas
Jun 23, 2016 (SPX)
Natural underground reservoirs of carbon dioxide are giving scientists vital clues how best to store man-made emissions of the greenhouse gas. A study of ancien...
Which animals will cope with climate change droughts
Jun 23, 2016 (SPX)
JCU's Dr Tasmin Rymer led a study that produced a template measuring several crucial factors, including an animal's physiology and environment, to determine how...
'Abnormal is the new normal': May breaks another global heat record
Jun 16, 2016 (AFP)
Last month was the hottest May in modern history, marking the 13th consecutive month that global temperature records have been shattered, the US National Oceani...
Drying Arctic soils could accelerate greenhouse gas emissions
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
A new study published in Nature Climate Change indicates soil moisture levels will determine how much carbon is released to the atmosphere as rising temperature...
France becomes first major nation to ratify UN climate deal
Jun 15, 2016 (AFP)
President Francois Hollande on Wednesday finalised ratification of the Paris climate accord reached in December 2015, making France the first industrialised cou...
Future summers could be hotter than any on record
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
In 50 years, summers across most of the globe could be hotter than any summer experienced by people to date, according to a study by scientists at the National ...
May goes down as Earth's hottest on record: NASA
Jun 14, 2016 (AFP)
May's temperatures broke global records yet again, as the northern hemisphere finishes its hottest spring on record, statistics released Tuesday by NASA showed....
Effects of warmer weather on productivity being felt worldwide, scientists say
Jun 10, 2016 (UPI)
The forces of globalization have made the global economic system more vulnerable to production losses caused by climate change, new research shows. The global s...
Kyoto Protocol report card: 100 percent compliance
Jun 10, 2016 (UPI)
According to a new report, all 36 countries who committed to the Kyoto Protocol were in 100 percent compliance with emissions mandates during the first commitme...
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