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Gene sequencing offers insight into how species adapt to climate change
Jan 23, 2015 (SPX)
Environmental scientists have a new tool for studying the responses of species to climate change. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has made it possible to analy...
What has gone wrong with the IPCC models?
Jan 23, 2015 (SPX)
A major peer-reviewed climate physics paper in the first issue of the prestigious Science Bulletin (formerly Chinese Science Bulletin), the journal of the Chine...
Atmospheric warming heats the bottom of ice sheets, as well as the top
Jan 22, 2015 (SPX)
A team of scientists led by Cornell University Earth and Atmospheric Sciences researcher Michael Willis, has published a new paper showing for the first time th...
US Senate: Yes, climate change is real
Jan 21, 2015 (AFP)
In a surprise move, US Senate Republicans joined Democrats and went on record Wednesday acknowledging that climate change is real. The symbolic amendment, attac...
New non-destructive device measures root growth in smaller plants
Jan 19, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University's Department of Horticultural Science recently introduced a new apparatus called the "mini-Horhizotron", a devi...
Social cost of climate change too low
Jan 19, 2015 (SPX)
The economic damage caused by a ton of CO2 emissions-often referred to as the "social cost of carbon-could actually be six times higher than the value that the ...
Ancient fossils reveal rise in parasitic infections due to climate change
Jan 19, 2015 (SPX)
When seeking clues about the future effects of possible climate change, sometimes scientists look to the past. Now, a paleobiologist from the University of Miss...
Record-breaking 2014 was hottest in modern history: US
Jan 16, 2015 (AFP)
Record-breaking temperatures scorched the planet last year, making 2014 the hottest in more than a century and raising new concerns about global warming, US gov...
Climate and friends influence young corals choice of real estate
Jan 15, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers in Australia have found that where baby corals choose to settle is influenced by ocean temperature and the presence of their symbiotic algae in the ...
Cheap fuel or climate safeguard - a simple choice
Jan 08, 2015 (SPX)
A third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80% of current coal reserves globally should remain in the ground and not be used before 2050 if global w...
Leave coal, oil in ground for climate's sake: study
Jan 07, 2015 (AFP)
The Middle East must leave 40 percent of its oil reserves in the ground, and China, the US and Russia most of their coal if global warming is to be curbed, rese...
Drought led to massive 'dead zone' in Lake Erie
Jan 07, 2015 (SPX)
Lake Erie just can't catch a break. The lake has experienced harmful algal blooms and severe oxygen-depleted "dead zones" for years, but now a team of researche...
What is the MJO, and why do we care?
Jan 05, 2015 (SPX)
The articles posted on this blog have described ENSO, its regional and global impacts, and the challenge of forecasting it, among several other topics. Here we ...
Soil's large carbon stores could be freed by increased plant growth
Jan 02, 2015 (SPX)
An increase in human-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could initiate a chain reaction between plants and microorganisms that would unsettle one of the larg...
Climate change: In 2015, the long march to Paris
Dec 30, 2014 (AFP)
Agreements on climate change -- to paraphrase what the 19th-century German statesman Otto von Bismarck said about law-making -- are like sausages. It's best not...
Belize blue hole helps explain collapse of ancient Mayan civilization
Dec 29, 2014 (UPI)
Recent mineral testing in the Great Blue Hole, a massive underwater cave in Belize, suggests a lengthy drought lead to the collapse of the Mayans. From 300 to 7...
Massive study provides first detailed look at how Greenland's ice is vanishing
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
The Greenland Ice Sheet is the second-largest body of ice on Earth. It covers an area about five times the size of New York State and Kansas combined, and if it...
NASA Data Underscore Severity of California Drought
Dec 19, 2014 (JPL)
It will take about 11 trillion gallons of water (42 cubic kilometers) -- around 1.5 times the maximum volume of the largest U.S. reservoir -- to recover from Ca...
Past global warming similar to today's
Dec 17, 2014 (SPX)
The rate at which carbon emissions warmed Earth's climate almost 56 million years ago resembles modern, human-caused global warming much more than previously be...
Climate Change and ENSO: Take 2
Dec 17, 2014 (SPX)
by Mat Collins Tom previously touched on how climate change might affect ENSO, emphasizing the 2013 AR5 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stateme...
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