CLIMATE SCIENCE - INDO DAILY

Mar 25, 2016 (SPX)

The signatory countries of the Kyoto Protocol and the new Paris Agreement have committed to reduce global warming. The countries themselves use estimates and pr...

Human-driven carbon release rate unprecedented in past 66 million years

Mar 25, 2016 (SPX)

The earliest measurements of Earth's climate using thermometers and other tools start in the 1850s. To look further back in time, scientists investigate air bub...

Fires, drought in changing climate affecting high-altitude forests

Mar 23, 2016 (SPX)

Large, severe fires in the West followed by increasing drought conditions as the planet warms are leading to lower tree densities and increased patchiness in hi...

Plants boost extreme temperatures by 5C

Mar 22, 2016 (SPX)

Heatwaves from Europe to China are likely to be more intense and result in maximum temperatures that are 3 C to 5 C warmer than previously estimated by the midd...

Release of CO2 fastest in 66 million years: study

Mar 21, 2016 (AFP)

Humans are disgorging heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere 10 times faster than during any period of natural global warming in the last 66 million years, ac...

Climate variations analyzed 5 million years back in time

Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)

When we talk about climate change today, we have to look at what the climate was previously like in order to recognise the natural variations and to be able to ...

Plants won't boost global warming as much as feared: study

Mar 16, 2016 (AFP)

Vegetation will release far less extra carbon dioxide in a warming world than previously assumed, giving humans a bit more room in the fight against climate cha...

Zimbabwe faces worst malnutrition in 15 years: UNICEF

Mar 15, 2016 (AFP)

Zimbabwe faces its worst malnutrition crisis in 15 years, with tens of thousands of children requiring urgent treatment, UNICEF said Tuesday as the government a...

Human influence on climate dates back to 1930s

Mar 10, 2016 (SPX)

Humans have triggered the last 16 record-breaking hot years experienced on Earth (up to 2014), with our impact on the global climate going as far back as 1937, ...

Canada PM poised for first official US visit

Mar 08, 2016 (AFP)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will bring panache and progressivism on his first official visit to Washington, where he and his wife will be guests of h...

Researchers work to improve how we predict climate change

Mar 07, 2016 (SPX)

Rao Kotamarthi and Jiali Wang spend their days looking at a future Earth. At the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, the two scientis...

Canadian leaders fail to reach agreement on carbon pricing

Mar 04, 2016 (AFP)

Canadian regional leaders have ended climate talks Thursday without agreement on a central government goal to establish a carbon pricing plan. Prime Minister Ju...

Canada gets down to climate business

Mar 03, 2016 (AFP)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced antagonistic provincial leaders at climate talks Thursday over his plans to set a national carbon price in order to...

NASA finds drought in Eastern Mediterranean worst of past 900 years

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

A new NASA study finds that the recent drought that began in 1998 in the eastern Mediterranean Levant region, which comprises Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, P...

Trudeau seeks climate consensus from Canada's 10 provinces

Mar 02, 2016 (AFP)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday urged the leaders of Canada's 10 provinces to come together to tackle climate change, as a self-imposed deadline loom...

Offsetting climate change's effects

Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)

Grasslands across North America will face higher summer temperatures and widespread drought by the end of the century, according to a new Harvard study on the e...

Vietnam hit by worst drought in 90 years

Mar 01, 2016 (AFP)

Vietnam is suffering its worst drought in nearly a century with salinisation hitting farmers especially hard in the crucial southern Mekong delta, experts said ...

Climate 'carbon budget' soon maxed out: study

Feb 23, 2016 (AFP)

The window of opportunity for humanity to cap global warming by slashing greenhouse gases is closing faster than previously thought, according to a study releas...

Dartmouth-led team develops method to predict local climate change

Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)

Global climate models are essential for climate prediction and assessing the impacts of climate change across large areas, but a Dartmouth College-led team has ...

Mapping the world for climate sensitivity

Feb 19, 2016 (SPX)

By developing this method, the international team of researchers has been able to map which areas are most sensitive to climate variability across the world. "B...