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Study Provides New Insights on Drought Predictions in East Africa
Jan 21, 2013 (SPX)
With more than 40 million people living under exceptional drought conditions in East Africa, the ability to make accurate predictions of drought has never been ...
Obama in forceful call to address climate change
Jan 21, 2013 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama vowed to make climate change a priority as he was sworn in Monday to a second term, using some of his most forceful language yet despi...
US climate fears mount, but political action wanes
Jan 19, 2013 (AFP)
Climate change was thrust to the forefront of the US political agenda recently in the wake of the devastation caused by superstorm Sandy and record high tempera...
Where there's smoke or smog, there's climate change
Jan 18, 2013 (SPX)
In addition to causing smoggy skies and chronic coughs, soot - or black carbon - turns out to be the number two contributor to global warming. It's second only ...
In the Eastern US, spring flowers keep pace with warming climate
Jan 18, 2013 (SPX)
Using the meticulous phenological records of two iconic American naturalists, Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold, scientists have demonstrated that native pla...
NASA Finds 2012 Sustained Long-Term Climate Warming Trend
Jan 16, 2013 (SPX)
NASA scientists say 2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the exception of 1998, t...
Climate laws advancing in many countries: survey
Jan 14, 2013 (AFP)
Major economies are now implementing important legislation on climate change, according to a survey published on Monday. Out of 33 countries, 32 have introduced...
Global warming beneficial to ratsnakes
Jan 14, 2013 (SPX)
Speculation about how animals will respond to climate change due to global warming led University of Illinois researcher Patrick Weatherhead and his students to...
Urgent CO2 cuts may spare millions hardship: report
Jan 13, 2013 (AFP)
Tens of millions of people may be spared droughts and floods by 2050 if Earth-warming carbon emissions peak in 2016 rather than 2030, scientists said on Sunday....
US study warns of extreme heat, more severe storms
Jan 11, 2013 (AFP)
A government report warned Friday that the United States could face more frequent severe weather including heat waves and storms for decades to come as temperat...
UN climate panel denounces fresh data leaks
Jan 09, 2013 (AFP)
The UN's climate science panel bemoaned Wednesday a fresh leak of data from a landmark report on global warming that it will start releasing this year. "Clearly...
U.K. forecasters revise warming estimates
Jan 09, 2013 (UPI)
Britain's national weather service, the Met Office, says it has revised one of its forecasts for how much the world may warm in the next few years. The forecast...
2012 warmest on record for US, had historic extremes
Jan 08, 2013 (AFP)
2012 marked the warmest year on record for the United States and was also the second most extreme ever, the US government agency charged with monitoring weather...
The laws of global warming
Jan 07, 2013 (SPX)
With policymakers and political leaders increasingly unable to combat global climate change, more scientists are considering the use of manual manipulation of t...
As climate warms, bark beetles march on high-elevation forests
Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)
Trees and the insects that eat them wage constant war. Insects burrow and munch; trees deploy lethal and disruptive defenses in the form of chemicals. But in a ...
New Delhi suffers coldest day in 44 years
Jan 03, 2013 (AFP)
New Delhi has suffered its coldest day in 44 years amid a cold snap across northern India, the local weather office said on Thursday. The maximum day temperatur...
7,000-year-old footprints give clues to climate of ancient Mexico
Jan 02, 2013 (UPI)
Dating of the oldest human footprints in North America could yield clues to Mexico's climate 7,000 years ago, researchers from a British university say. Two set...
Geo-engineering against climate change
Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)
Numerous geo-engineering schemes have been suggested as possible ways to reduce levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so reduce the ...
Iraq calls for Arab action on climate change
Dec 24, 2012 (AFP)
Iraq's most senior energy official called for coordinated Arab action on climate change while Egypt's environment minister proposed a regional green fund at a c...
Dry spell projected for southwest US
Dec 23, 2012 (AFP)
Southwestern areas of the United States, reeling from its worst drought in 50 years, may have 10 percent less surface water within a decade due to global warmin...
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