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Paris climate talks to draw up to 50,000: France
Jun 10, 2014 (AFP)
As many as 50,000 people are likely to attend the December 2015 talks in Paris aimed at forging a UN pact on climate change, host France said on Tuesday. "Betwe...
Has solar activity influence on the Earth's global warming?
Jun 09, 2014 (SPX)
A recent study demonstrates the existence of significant resonance cycles and high correlations between solar activity and the Earth's averaged surface temperat...
Building blocks missing for 2015 climate pact: ministers
Jun 07, 2014 (AFP)
The clock is ticking for countries to lay the foundations of a 2015 deal to tackle dangerous climate change, ministers warned in Bonn on Friday. A special UN su...
Climate talks: 'Raise your voice, not sea level' - UN
Jun 05, 2014 (AFP)
The United Nations used the occasion of World Environment Day on Thursday to demand action on climate change for the protection of small island states threatene...
Deep sea fish remove million tonnes of CO2 a year from UK waters
Jun 04, 2014 (SPX)
Deep sea fishes remove and store more than one million tonnes of CO2 from UK and Irish surface waters every year, according to a new study led by the University...
EU steps up call for pre-2020 action at climate talks
Jun 04, 2014 (AFP)
UN members launched a new round of climate talks Wednesday as Europe demands early action to tame carbon emissions, two days after the United States unveiled a ...
Decomposing logs show local factors undervalued in climate predictions
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
A new Yale-led study challenges the long-held assumption that climate is the primary driver of how quickly organic matter decomposes in different regions, a key...
EU greenhouse emissions fall more than expected: new data
Jun 03, 2014 (AFP)
The European Union's greenhouse-gas emissions fell more in 2012 than previously estimated, according to new data released on Tuesday. By the end of 2012, the EU...
Study links urbanization and future heat-related mortality
Jun 02, 2014 (SPX)
Phoenix stands at a parched crossroads. Global scale climate change is forecast to bring hotter summers and more extreme heat to the Valley, but regional urbani...
Major cities must unite against climate change: Paris mayor
May 30, 2014 (AFP)
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo urged the world's major cities Thursday to unite in the fight against climate change. Stressing that half the world's population is now...
'Time running out' as CO2 levels hit new high: UN
May 26, 2014 (AFP)
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have crossed a new threshold, the UN's weather agency said Monday, highlighting the urgency of curbing manmade, climat...
Deep-buried carbon may pose climate risk: study
May 25, 2014 (AFP)
Stocks of organic carbon buried deep underground could pose a global warming threat if disturbed by erosion, farming, deforestation, mining or road-building, a ...
Dryland ecosystems emerge as driver in global carbon cycle
May 23, 2014 (SPX)
Dryland ecosystems, which include deserts to dry-shrublands, play a more important role in the global carbon cycle than previously thought. In fact, they have e...
Public interest in climate unshaken by scandal, but unstirred by science
May 23, 2014 (SPX)
The good news for any passionate supporter of climate-change science is that negative media reports seem to have only a passing effect on public opinion, accord...
Climate deal 'won't be perfect': US negotiator
May 22, 2014 (AFP)
With 19 months to go until the deadline for a new, global pact on climate change, the United States' top negotiator cautioned Thursday against unrealistic expec...
Climate Change Brings Mostly Bad News for Ohio
May 22, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists delivered a mostly negative forecast for how climate change will affect Ohioans during the next year or so, and well beyond. Researchers report that ...
Drought sounds alarm, fuels hunger fears for indigenous Guyana
May 18, 2014 (AFP)
Thousands of indigenous people near Guyana's border with Brazil are battling drought so persistent they fear crop failure and hunger. Shirley Melville, a former...
Fossil palm beetles 'hindcast' 50-million-year-old winters
May 16, 2014 (SPX)
Fifty-million-year-old fossil beetles that fed only on palm seeds are giving Simon Fraser University biologists Bruce Archibald and Rolf Mathewes new informatio...
How climate talks can be more successful
May 15, 2014 (SPX)
For more than two decades, members of the United Nations have sought to forge an agreement to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. But so far, these internat...
Tropical cyclones moving poleward, says study
May 14, 2014 (AFP)
Tropical cyclones are reaching maximum intensity farther from the equator and closer to the poles, according to a study published in the journal Nature on Wedne...
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