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UC Geographers Develop a System to Track the Dynamics of Drought

Apr 10, 2014 (SPX)

University of Cincinnati researchers are at work tracking drought patterns across the United States. Qiusheng Wu, a doctoral student and research assistant for ...

Climate Models Underestimate Costs to Future Generations

Apr 09, 2014 (SPX)

Future generations will have to pay more for today's carbon emissions than what governments across the world currently understand. The climate models used by po...

Slowdown of global warming fleeting

Apr 09, 2014 (SPX)

The recent slowdown in the warming rate of the Northern Hemisphere may be a result of internal variability of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation -- a natural...

Researchers find arid areas absorb unexpected amounts of atmospheric carbon

Apr 09, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers led by a Washington State University biologist have found that arid areas, among the biggest ecosystems on the planet, take up an unexpectedly large...

A Few Winners, But Many More Losers In Climate Change

Apr 09, 2014 (SPX)

Dramatic distribution losses and a few major distribution gains are forecasted for southwestern bird and reptile species as the climate changes, according to ju...

UN warns of drought crisis in Syria

Apr 08, 2014 (AFP)

The UN's food aid agency warned on Tuesday that Syria was facing a drought that could put millions of people's lives at risk, compounding the impact of years of...

Climate change forces flower festival forward a month since 1960s

Apr 08, 2014 (SPX)

Organisers of flower festivals are being forced to adapt to increasingly early first blooming dates in spring, according to a study by a Coventry University aca...

Carbon cuts possible for manageable warming: experts

Apr 07, 2014 (AFP)

The world, acting urgently, can curb carbon emissions enough to avert worst-case scenarios for climate change, UN experts said Monday as envoys met in Berlin to...

Climate: UN experts see options to brake juggernaut

Apr 05, 2014 (AFP)

A week after publishing the starkest warning yet on the risks of climate change, UN experts meet in Berlin from Monday to assess options for limiting the threat...

Research suggests autumn is ending later in the northern hemisphere

Apr 01, 2014 (SPX)

A study by the University of Southampton suggests that on average the end of Autumn is taking place later in the year and Spring is starting slightly earlier. A...

Sri Lanka seeks divine help to avoid power cuts

Apr 01, 2014 (AFP)

Sri Lanka's energy minister offered flowers and lit thousands of oil lamps as she prayed for rains to replenish drought-hit reservoirs which are used for hydro-...

Calls for action as world faces fork in climate road

Mar 31, 2014 (AFP)

A stark warning by UN scientists of menacing climate change prompted demands Monday for urgent action to curb greenhouse-gas emissions even as a global pact rem...

Climate change boosts conflict risk, floods, hunger: UN

Mar 31, 2014 (AFP)

Soaring carbon emissions will amplify the risk of conflict, hunger, floods and mass migration this century, the UN's expert panel said Monday in a landmark repo...

US to tackle methane in climate change push

Mar 28, 2014 (AFP)

The White House pledged Friday to clamp down on US emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas produced by cattle and natural gas production that contributes to clim...

IPCC chief: Worst can be avoided with action now

Mar 26, 2014 (AFP)

The United Nation's head of climate change issues stressed Wednesday that the earth's warming trend, almost certainly caused by people, can still be eased. Raje...

Plankton make scents for seabirds and a cooler planet

Mar 26, 2014 (SPX)

The top predators of the Southern Ocean, far-ranging seabirds, are tied both to the health of the ocean ecosystem and to global climate regulation through a mut...

How global wide warming changed Earth 56 million years

Mar 26, 2014 (SPX)

The growing and justified concern about the current global warming process has kindled the interest of the scientific community in geological records as an arch...

Southeast England most at risk of rising deaths due to climate change

Mar 26, 2014 (SPX)

Warmer summers brought on by climate change will cause more deaths in London and southeast England than the rest of the country, scientists predict. Researchers...

Scientists meet in Japan to deliver grim climate warning

Mar 25, 2014 (AFP)

International scientists on Tuesday kicked off a week-long meeting in Japan that is set to deliver dark predictions on the impact of climate change, warning of ...

White House launches website to visualize climate change

Mar 25, 2014 (UPI)

The White House unveiled a new climate change visualization website Wednesday. The idea is to help people understand the science behind climate change and encou...