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Drought declared in New Zealand's North Island

Mar 15, 2013 (AFP)

New Zealand declared a drought across its entire North Island for the first time in at least 30 years on Friday, with low river levels in the capital Wellington...

Middle East faces alarming water loss

Mar 15, 2013 (UPI)

The Middle East, one of the most arid regions on Earth, is facing a critical water crisis because of poor management and a 2007 drought, the American Geophysica...

Monsoon failure key to long droughts in Southwest

Mar 13, 2013 (SPX)

Long-term droughts in the Southwestern North America often mean failure of both summer and winter rains, according to new tree-ring research from a University o...

Reconstruction of climate shows significance of recent temps

Mar 08, 2013 (SPX)

Using data from 73 sites around the world, scientists have been able to reconstruct Earth's temperature history back to the end of the last Ice Age, revealing t...

'Climate-smart strategies' proposed for spectacular US-Canadian landscape

Mar 08, 2013 (SPX)

A new report from the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada (WCS Canada) creates a conservation strategy that will promote wildlife resiliency in the Southern Ca...

Earth Is Warmer Today Than During 70 to 80 Percent of the Past 11,300 Years

Mar 08, 2013 (SPX)

With data from 73 ice and sediment core monitoring sites around the world, scientists have reconstructed Earth's temperature history back to the end of the last...

Earth on track to be hottest in 11.3 millennia: study

Mar 07, 2013 (AFP)

The Earth is on track to becoming the hottest it has been at any time in the past 11.3 millennia, a period spanning the history of human civilization, a study p...

Governments falling short in drought fight: UN

Mar 07, 2013 (AFP)

Governments worldwide are failing to do enough to tackle drought, which lacks the headline-making punch of a hurricane but can have an equally devastating human...

A new technique to simulate climate change

Mar 06, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists are using ever more complex models running on ever more powerful computers to simulate the earth's climate. But new research suggests that basic phys...

Accurate water vapour measurements for improved weather and climate models

Mar 06, 2013 (SPX)

An humidity sensor developed by the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the SEALDH laser hygrometer, has proven its worth when used aboard an aircraft;...

Millions of Indians facing worst drought in decades

Mar 06, 2013 (AFP)

Millions of people in western India are suffering their worst drought in more than four decades, with critics blaming official ineptitude and corruption for exa...

New method for greenhouse gas predictions

Mar 06, 2013 (SPX)

Pulp and paper producers are among Canada's most important industries and also one of the largest producers of wastewater. Estimating the greenhouse gas emissio...

Australian climate on 'steroids' after hottest summer

Mar 04, 2013 (AFP)

Australia's weather went "on steroids" over a summer that saw an unprecedented heatwave, bushfires and floods, the climate chief said Monday, warning that globa...

EU environment ministers to debate 2030 climate framework

Feb 28, 2013 (UPI)

European Union environment ministers are set to open debate on controversial 2030 targets for greenhouse gas emissions and renewable energy, the Greek presidenc...

Scientist play down 'tipping point' theory

Feb 28, 2013 (UPI)

A doomsday-like scenario of sudden, irreversible change to the Earth's ecology -- a tipping point -- is not supported by science, Australian researchers say. Wr...

In prehistory, CO2 and warming went in lock-step

Feb 28, 2013 (AFP)

Levels of carbon dioxide rose hand-in-hand with warming at the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study Thursday that deals a blow to climate skeptics. Fre...

Geoengineering by coalition

Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)

Solar geoengineering is a proposed approach to reduce the effects of climate change due to greenhouse gasses by deflecting some of the sun's incoming radiation....

German greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2012

Feb 25, 2013 (AFP)

Germany saw increased emissions in greenhouse gases last year due to more coal and gas usage while the country seeks to develop its renewable energy sources, of...

Global warming: Heat stress hits labour productivity

Feb 24, 2013 (AFP)

Heat stress from global warming may be having an impact on outdoor work productivity in hot regions like northern Australia, Southeast Asia and the southern Uni...

As predators decline, carbon emissions rise

Feb 22, 2013 (SPX)

University of British Columbia researchers have found that when the animals at the top of the food chain are removed, freshwater ecosystems emit a lot more carb...