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Climate changes the distribution of plants and animals
Jan 13, 2014 (SPX)
Swiss plants, butterflies and birds have moved 8 to 42 meters uphill between 2003 and 2010, as scientists from the University of Basel write in the online journ...
Europe to suffer from more severe and persistent droughts
Jan 13, 2014 (SPX)
As Europe is battered by storms, new research reminds us of the other side of the coin. By the end of this century, droughts in Europe are expected to be more f...
Europe squabbling over greenhouse gas targets
Jan 10, 2014 (AFP)
European nations stand sharply divided over setting new 2030 targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, EU sources said Friday. Europ...
'Global sunscreen' plan could wreck tropics: study
Jan 08, 2014 (AFP)
An idea by the father of the H-bomb to slow global warming by sowing the stratosphere with light-reflecting particles could wreck the weather system in the trop...
Methane hydrates and global warming
Jan 07, 2014 (SPX)
Methane hydrates are fragile. At the sea floor the ice-like solid fuel composed of water and methane is only stable at high pressure and low temperature. In som...
China starts fifth national desertification monitoring
Jan 06, 2014 (XNA)
China launched its Fifth National Monitoring of Desertification and Sandification on Friday. The State Forestry Administration said the campaign to collect info...
Australia endures hottest year on record
Jan 03, 2014 (AFP)
Australia experienced its hottest year on record in 2013, the Bureau of Meteorology said Friday, enduring the longest heatwave ever recorded Down Under as well ...
Geoengineering research, ethics, governance explored
Dec 25, 2013 (SPX)
Hacking the Earth's climate to counteract global warming - a subject that elicits strong reactions from both sides - is the topic of a December special issue of...
UN appoints two special envoys on climate
Dec 23, 2013 (AFP)
UN chief Ban Ki-moon announced Monday the appointment of two special envoys on climate change. Former president of Ghana John Kufuor and former prime minister o...
Assessing the impact of climate change on a global scale
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
Thirty research teams in 12 different countries have systematically compared state-of-the-art computer simulations of climate change impact to assess how climat...
Recognizing the elephant in the room: Future climate impacts across sectors
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
A pioneering collaboration within the international scientific community has provided comprehensive projections of climate change effects, ranging from water sc...
World experiences hottest November in 134 years: US
Dec 17, 2013 (AFP)
The month of November was the hottest experienced on Earth since record-keeping began in 1880, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesd...
New long-lived greenhouse gas discovered by University of Toronto chemistry team
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists from U of T's Department of Chemistry have discovered a novel chemical lurking in the atmosphere that appears to be a long-lived greenhouse gas (LLGH...
Geoengineering approaches to reduce climate change unlikely to succeed
Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)
Reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the planet's surface by geoengineering may not undo climate change after all. Two German researchers used a simple ener...
French carbon crook on run after bracelet fails
Dec 14, 2013 (AFP)
A Frenchman convicted of carbon trading fraud that cost the state some 1.6 billion euros ($2.2 billion) has gone on the run, a judicial source said Saturday, ad...
Report Calls Attention To Abrupt Impacts From Climate Change
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
Climate change has increased concern over possible large and rapid changes in the physical climate system, which includes the Earth's atmosphere, land surfaces,...
Rapid climate changes, but with a 120 year time lag
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
Regional climate changes can be very rapid. A German-British team of geoscientists now reports that such a rapid climate change occurred in different regions wi...
Study finds rivers and streams release more greenhouse gas than all lakes
Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)
Rivers and streams release carbon dioxide at a rate five times greater than the world's lakes and reservoirs combined, contrary to common belief. Research from ...
Continuing with pledge pathways to 2030 could push climate goals out of reach
Dec 06, 2013 (SPX)
Current pledges for greenhouse gas emission reductions are inadequate and will further increase the challenge to reach internationally agreed climate targets, a...
EASAC report warns Europe on extreme weather event increase
Dec 05, 2013 (SPX)
Europe needs to plan for future probabilities of extreme weather. Heat waves, floods and storms do not respect national frontiers, so there is a need for action...
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