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1934 drought was worst of the last millennium

Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)

The 1934 drought was by far the most intense and far-reaching drought of the last 1,000 years in North America, and was caused in part by an atmospheric phenome...

Rising sea levels of 1.8 meters in worst-case scenario

Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)

The climate is getting warmer, the ice sheets are melting and sea levels are rising - but how much? The report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Ch...

Australia PM rebuffs Booker Prize winner criticism

Oct 16, 2014 (AFP)

Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Thursday brushed off criticism about Australia's environmental policies by newly crowned Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan, say...

Drought-hit US town learns to live without water

Oct 16, 2014 (AFP)

In front of the local fire station, Pete Rodriguez stands next to his pick-up truck, filling about a dozen buckets from a vast tank. He hurries, because another...

Saving Australia's Outback means living in it: study

Oct 15, 2014 (AFP)

As one of the wildest and most natural places on Earth, Australia's Outback is home to few people, but a new study Wednesday argues that it needs a bigger popul...

Greenpeace wants EU leaders to follow big business

Oct 15, 2014 (UPI)

European leaders are called to follow leading international companies in their push to advance a low-carbon economy, Greenpeace said. The advocacy group applaud...

Pentagon: Climate change 'immediate' national security risk

Oct 13, 2014 (AFP)

Rising global temperatures, rapidly melting arctic ice and other effects of climate change are posing immediate risks to US national security and military and h...

Climate change alters the ecological impacts of seasons

Oct 11, 2014 (SPX)

If more of the world's climate becomes like that in tropical zones, it could potentially affect crops, insects, malaria transmission, and even confuse migration...

Schwarzenegger goes from Terminator to climate 'Innovator'

Oct 11, 2014 (AFP)

Hollywood legend Arnold Schwarzenegger has gone from being the "Terminator" to the "Innovator", France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Saturday, praising...

EU struggles to agree 2030 climate targets for October summit

Oct 10, 2014 (AFP)

European Union leaders face difficult negotiations to agree a package of climate change targets for 2030 at an end-of-October summit, with coal-reliant Poland l...

Kerry on climate change: Time running out for action

Oct 09, 2014 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday issued a stark warning about the mounting effects of climate change, from food shortages to devastating droughts, s...

More accurate model for greenhouse gases from peatlands developed

Oct 08, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have created a new model to more accurately describe the greenhouse gases likely to be...

Climate detectives reveal handprint of human caused climate change in Australia

Oct 07, 2014 (SPX)

Australia's hottest year on record in 2013 along with the accompanying droughts, heat waves and record-breaking seasons of that year was virtually impossible wi...

Experts call for widening the debate on climate change

Oct 07, 2014 (SPX)

Environmental scientists are being urged to broaden the advice they give on global climate change, say experts who are also frustrated that decision makers are ...

Greenland Ice Sheet's meltwater channels studied

Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)

An international research team's field work, drilling and measuring melt rates and ice sheet movement in Greenland is showing that things are, in fact, more com...

Greenland Ice Sheet more vulnerable than previously thought

Sep 30, 2014 (SPX)

A new model developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge has shown that despite its apparent stability, the massive ice sheet covering most of Greenl...

CO2 emissions set to reach new 40 billion ton record high in 2014

Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)

Carbon dioxide emissions, the main contributor to global warming, are set to rise again in 2014 - reaching a record high of 40 billion tonnes. The 2.5 per cent ...

NASA, Partners Target Megacities Carbon Emissions

Sep 25, 2014 (JPL)

Driving down busy Interstate 5 in Los Angeles in a nondescript blue Toyota Prius, Riley Duren of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, is a ma...

Study assess impact of temperature on soil decomposition

Sep 24, 2014 (SPX)

The Earth's soils store four times more carbon than the atmosphere and small changes in soil carbon storage can have a big effect on atmospheric greenhouse gas ...

Climate: Now to turn summit prose into action

Sep 24, 2014 (AFP)

Having renewed their commitment to saving Earth's climate, governments face daunting challenges in the coming months to draft a global pact and set targets for ...