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Global warming not just a blanket but more like tanning oil
Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)
While computer models churn out bleak forecasts for the planet's future, we also have a more conceptual understanding of what is happening as humans pump carbon...
Heat on over climate as US, China leaders meet
Nov 11, 2014 (AFP)
Barack Obama and Xi Jinping have few areas of common ground as they meet this week in Beijing, but could find themselves warming to each other on one longstandi...
El Nino chances drop again, lowering chances for bad winter
Nov 06, 2014 (UPI)
The chances for an El Nino event have once again dropped, lowering the chances of a particularly harsh winter that was predicted. The chances of an El Nino even...
Climate economics expert urges critical investment shift
Nov 06, 2014 (AFP)
The next 20 years must see a "critical" investment shift from high- to low-carbon energy sources to limit damaging global warming, Nicholas Stern, an authority ...
France, US lead alarm at climate report
Nov 02, 2014 (AFP)
France and the United States headed a chorus of alarm on Sunday after a major UN report on climate change warned that the Earth was on track for potentially dis...
Time running out to reach 2 C target: UN climate panel
Nov 02, 2014 (AFP)
Time is running out to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the UN's climate experts warned Sunday, saying current carbon emiss...
UN climate panel on final stretch of key report
Oct 31, 2014 (AFP)
The UN's top panel on climate change was sifting Friday through the final details of a report aimed at guiding policies on global warming for years to come, sou...
UN climate summit will fail unless US sets big goal: EU
Oct 28, 2014 (AFP)
The UN climate summit in 2015 will fail unless the United States sets "a concrete and ambitious" goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, EU climate commiss...
Past Climate Change Was Caused by the Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere
Oct 28, 2014 (SPX)
Most of the concerns about climate change have focused on the amount of greenhouse gases that have been released into the atmosphere. But in a new study publish...
Climate rescue mission 'not hopeless': IPCC chief
Oct 27, 2014 (AFP)
The head of the UN's climate science panel urged national policymakers Monday not to lose heart in the face of a mighty challenge to tackle global warming. "It ...
Gear shift needed to meet climate pact deadline: observers
Oct 26, 2014 (AFP)
Nations will have to roll up their sleeves and make important compromises to meet the deadline, just 14 months off, for a global pact on curbing climate change,...
Recently discovered microbe is key player in climate change
Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)
Tiny soil microbes are among the world's biggest potential amplifiers of human-caused climate change, but whether microbial communities are mere slaves to their...
EU leaders seal landmark 2030 climate deal
Oct 24, 2014 (AFP)
European Union leaders agreed Friday what they hailed as the world's most ambitious climate change targets for 2030, paving the way for a new UN-backed global t...
Resolving the Karakoram glacier anomaly
Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from Princeton University and other institutions may have hit upon an answer to a climate-change puzzle that has eluded scientists for years, and th...
Is climate change downsizing goats
Oct 23, 2014 (SPX)
Alpine goats appear to be shrinking in size as they react to changes in climate, according to new research from Durham University. The researchers studied the i...
Mediterranean, Semi-Arid Ecosystems Prove Resistant to Climate Change
Oct 22, 2014 (SPX)
Climate change predictions for the Middle East, like other arid regions of the world, are alarming. In an area known for its water scarcity, rainfall is expecte...
US, China can tip balance in climate quest: study
Oct 21, 2014 (AFP)
The United States and China, the biggest greenhouse gas polluters, could reduce by a quarter the envisaged 2020 shortfall in emissions cuts required to curtail ...
Sheltering habits help sharks cope with acid oceans
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
A shark's habitat can reduce its sensitivity to rising CO2 levels, according to Australian scientists. Globally, ocean acidification - linked to emissions of gr...
Can big data make sense of climate change?
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Big Data analytics are helping to provide answers to many complex problems in science and society, but they have not contributed to a better understanding clima...
British government says EU emissions trading system broken
Oct 20, 2014 (UPI)
British Energy Secretary Ed Davey said Monday the European Union can lead the fight against climate change, but only if certain reforms are enacted. "Europe has...
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