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World thunderstorm 'map' key to assessing climate change
Feb 10, 2015 (SPX)
The Doomsday Clock, which measures the likelihood of global catastrophe, last week ticked a minute closer to "midnight"--- the apocalypse. The symbolic clock wa...
A beginner's guide to speaking Climate
Feb 10, 2015 (AFP)
Outsiders who walk into a UN climate conference often experience a "beam-me-up-Scotty" moment. Like Star Trek's Captain Kirk, they find themselves in a alien wo...
Loss of posidonia reduces CO2 storage; may contribute to gas emissions
Feb 10, 2015 (SPX)
The loss of underwater posidonia meadows poses two problems: these areas can no longer capture and store atmospheric CO2, and, moreover, they can become a sourc...
Evidence from warm past confirms recent IPCC estimates of climate sensitivity
Feb 09, 2015 (SPX)
New evidence showing the level of atmospheric CO2 millions of years ago supports recent climate change predications from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Growing support for rationing in drought-hit Brazil
Feb 09, 2015 (AFP)
A majority of Brazilians support water and energy rationing, as the country faces its worst drought in decades, an opinion poll showed Monday. The Datafolha pol...
Plea for 'urgency' at UN climate talks
Feb 08, 2015 (AFP)
UN climate negotiators gathered in Geneva were urged Sunday to show urgency and compromise in crafting a draft by next week for a global pact to be signed in De...
Sodium carbonate capsules used to capture carbon safely
Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)
Using the same baking soda found in most grocery stores, Lawrence Livermore scientists, along with colleagues from Harvard University and the University of Illi...
Inhospitable climate fosters gold ore formation
Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)
South Africa's Witwatersrand is the site of the world's largest and richest gold deposit. In order to explain its formation, ETH professor Christoph Heinrich to...
Negotiators knuckle down to trim draft climate pact
Feb 06, 2015 (AFP)
UN negotiations resume in Geneva on Sunday to streamline the bloated draft for a climate pact that nations, still at odds over key elements, must sign in Paris ...
Scientists reprogram plants for drought tolerance
Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)
Crops and other plants are constantly faced with adverse environmental conditions, such as rising temperatures (2014 was the warmest year on record) and lesseni...
Norway signs up to EU greenhouse gas targets
Feb 04, 2015 (AFP)
Norway announced Wednesday plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent by 2030 as the oil-rich country aligns itself with targets set by the Eu...
Global warming slowdown: No systematic errors in climate models
Feb 03, 2015 (SPX)
Sceptics who still doubt anthropogenic climate change have now been stripped of one of their last-ditch arguments: It is true that there has been a warming hiat...
Minister says India 'walking the talk' on climate change
Feb 03, 2015 (AFP)
India's government on Tuesday defended its efforts to combat climate change after US President Barack Obama urged the country to reduce its dependence on fossil...
Global warming won't mean more stormy weather
Jan 30, 2015 (SPX)
A study led by atmospheric physicists at the University of Toronto finds that global warming will not lead to an overall increasingly stormy atmosphere, a topic...
Long series of droughts doomed Mexican city 1,000 years ago
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
Archaeologists continue to debate the reasons for the collapse of many Central American cities and states, from Teotihuacan in Mexico to the Yucatan Maya, and c...
China will play key role in Paris climate talks: French PM
Jan 28, 2015 (AFP)
Beijing has a crucial role to play in international climate talks being held in Paris in December, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told Chinese state media W...
Climate models disagree on why temperature 'wiggles' occur
Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)
A new Duke University-led study finds that most climate models likely underestimate the degree of decade-to-decade variability occurring in mean surface tempera...
'No chance' of beating climate change without India: Obama
Jan 27, 2015 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama warned Tuesday that the world does not "stand a chance against climate change" unless developing countries such as India reduce their ...
California aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions through 2030
Jan 26, 2015 (SPX)
A new model of the impact of California's existing and proposed policies on its greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals suggests that the state is on track to meet...
Greenland Ice: The warmer it gets the faster it melts
Jan 23, 2015 (SPX)
Melting of glacial ice will probably raise sea level around the globe, but how fast this melting will happen is uncertain. In the case of the Greenland Ice Shee...
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