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Canada will match other industrialized nations' CO2 cuts: PM
Apr 23, 2015 (AFP)
Canada will set a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that will be "similar" to those of other industrialized nations, Prime Minister Stephen Harper sa...
Global warming progressing at moderate rate, empirical data suggest
Apr 23, 2015 (SPX)
A new study based on 1,000 years of temperature records suggests global warming is not progressing as fast as it would under the most severe emissions scenarios...
Obama in fresh push on climate change
Apr 22, 2015 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama will travel to Florida's Everglades Wednesday hoping to reframe the debate on climate change ahead of a vital few months that will sha...
Artificial photosynthesis poses win/win for the environment
Apr 17, 2015 (SPX)
A potentially game-changing breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis has been achieved with the development of a system that can capture carbon dioxide emissio...
Climate connections
Apr 16, 2015 (SPX)
In common parlance, the phrase "global climate change" is often used to describe how present-day climate is changing in response to human activities. But climat...
Burying the climate change problem
Apr 15, 2015 (SPX)
Burying the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, has been mooted as one geoengineering approach to ameliorating climate change. T...
Music: Will climate change give us the blues?
Apr 14, 2015 (AFP)
Climate change is predicted to intrude into almost every area of life -- from where we live, to what we eat and whom we war with. Now music can be added to the ...
Climate change, plant roots may accelerate carbon loss from soils
Apr 09, 2015 (SPX)
Soil, long thought to be a semi-permanent storehouse for ancient carbon, may be releasing carbon dioxide to the atmosphere faster than anyone thought, according...
Taiwan launches water rationing to fight drought
Apr 08, 2015 (AFP)
Taiwan launched water rationing in some major cities on Wednesday as the island battled its worst drought in over a decade, following the lowest rainfall in nea...
Complex landscape has both vulnerabilities and resilience to change
Apr 07, 2015 (SPX)
Central Appalachian forests have been experiencing the effects of a changing climate for decades, and effects such as more heavy rainfall events, more drought, ...
New interactive map plots public opinion on climate change
Apr 06, 2015 (UPI)
A new interactive map, developed by researchers at Yale and Utah State universities, reveals localized opinions on climate change throughout the United States. ...
Atmospheric energy escaped from the Tibetan Plateau
Apr 02, 2015 (SPX)
The increase of green-house gases in the atmosphere reduces outgoing radiation and thus causes global warming. About 93% extra energy trapped by the greenhouse ...
California unveils historic water restrictions over drought crisis
Apr 01, 2015 (AFP)
California announced sweeping statewide water restrictions for the first time in history Wednesday in order to combat the region's devastating drought, the wors...
Climate pledges: Deadline sees slow but promising start
Mar 31, 2015 (AFP)
A rough deadline for Tuesday saw only 33 out of 195 countries submit pledges for tackling greenhouse gases under UN climate talks scheduled to conclude just ove...
US renews pledge to cut emissions 26-28% by 2025
Mar 31, 2015 (AFP)
The US government on Tuesday formally pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28 percent over 2005 levels within the next decade, ahead of a major clim...
Climate fund signs up first partners
Mar 27, 2015 (AFP)
The global fund created to spearhead climate change financing has selected its first partners to channel funds to developing countries, but says it needs donor ...
Flooding in Chilean desert region kills six
Mar 27, 2015 (AFP)
Flash floods in a normally bone-dry region of northern Chile killed six people and left 19 missing, officials said Thursday, prompting the government to declare...
'Ice vault' idea to keep climate's time capsule intact
Mar 26, 2015 (AFP)
Imagine you are Sherlock Holmes bent on solving a mystery but the evidence is starting to crumble and eventually you will be left with worthless dust. This is t...
Thirty European cities pledge to slash emissions
Mar 26, 2015 (AFP)
Thirty European cities pledged Thursday to slash their greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent as French President Francois Hollande called on them to back histo...
Adapting to climate change will bring new environmental problems
Mar 23, 2015 (SPX)
Adapting to climate change could have profound environmental repercussions, according to a new study from the University of East Anglia. Research in Nature Clim...
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