CLIMATE SCIENCE

Climate Science News

3,796 articles

Top China weather expert warns on climate change
Mar 22, 2015 (AFP)
China's top weather official has issued a stark warning on climate change, saying that rising temperatures could have "huge impacts" on the world's most populou...
As lakes become deserts, drought is Iran's new problem
Mar 21, 2015 (AFP)
Nazar Sarani's village in southeast Iran was once an island. It is now a desert, a casualty of the country's worsening water crisis. "We live in the dust," said...
New lake surface temperature database will help to study climate change
Mar 19, 2015 (SPX)
A group of York University investigators and their international counterparts have jointly created a database of lake surface temperatures, to help study ecolog...
Research 'measures the pulse of planet Earth' to reveal hidden patterns of climate change
Mar 19, 2015 (SPX)
An international research team led by the University of Leicester has for the first time harnessed technology typically used to diagnose heart disease in order ...
US aims to cut government greenhouse gases
Mar 19, 2015 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama on Thursday will order the government to cut its own greenhouse gas emissions and use more renewable energy, the latest drive to bypas...
Tracking marine plankton provides new information to reconstruct past climate
Mar 19, 2015 (SPX)
A new study from an international team of scientists uncovered new information about the tiny, globetrotting organisms commonly used to reconstruct past climate...
Small eddies produce global effects on climate change
Mar 18, 2015 (SPX)
The increasing strength of winds over the Southern Ocean has extended its ability to absorb carbon dioxide, effectively delaying the impacts of global warming. ...
New carbon accounting method proposed
Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)
Established ways of measuring carbon emissions can sometimes give misleading feedback on how national policies affect global emissions. In some cases, countries...
Obama: Republicans will change views on climate
Mar 16, 2015 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama has predicted Republicans will eventually ditch their skepticism about climate change in order to keep favor with voters. "I guarantee...
Flooding in Vanuatu as cyclone hits maximum strength
Mar 13, 2015 (AFP)
Tropical Cyclone Pam triggered flooding along with evacuation orders affecting thousands of people in Vanuatu on Friday as it intensified to a maximum-strength ...
Kerry urges nations to back Paris climate change talks
Mar 12, 2015 (AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday urged nations to set ambitious goals to curb greenhouse gases, warning climate change deniers that gambling with the E...
Evolving to cope with climate change
Mar 10, 2015 (SPX)
Over the next two centuries, climate change is likely to impact everything from industrial agriculture to the shape of our coastlines. The changing climate will...
Warming temperatures implicated in recent California droughts
Mar 05, 2015 (SPX)
California has experienced more frequent drought years in the last two decades than it has in the past several centuries. That observed uptick is primarily the ...
Hormone disrupting chemicals risk of extinction in wildlife
Mar 05, 2015 (SPX)
The impact of pollution on wildlife could be made dramatically worse by climate change according to a new study published in the journal PNAS. Researchers from ...
Family log of spring's arrival helps predict climate-driven change
Mar 05, 2015 (SPX)
Rare historic records of the changing seasons are helping scientists better understand how woodland trees and flowers are responding to climate change. Research...
Atlantic and Pacific oscillations caused 'false pause' in warming
Feb 27, 2015 (SPX)
The recent slowdown in climate warming is due, at least in part, to natural oscillations in the climate, according to a team of climate scientists, who add that...
IPCC sea-level rise scenarios not fit for purpose for high-risk coastal areas
Feb 27, 2015 (SPX)
The sea-level rise scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) do not necessarily provide the right information for high-risk coastal deci...
French, Philippine leaders appeal for climate action
Feb 26, 2015 (AFP)
French President Francois Hollande and Philippine leader Benigno Aquino appealed Thursday for urgent global action on climate change, seeking to build momentum ...
Potential first direct observation of CO2 effect at the Earth's surface
Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have observed an increase in carbon dioxide's greenhouse effect at the Earth's surface for the first time. The researchers, led by scientists from th...
The future is looking less cloudy
Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)
When warm air comes into contact with a cool surface and chills to saturation, fog materializes. It blankets open roads and runways and dramatically reduces vis...
Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.