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The Clocks Are Ticking and the Climate Is Changing
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
Dartmouth plant biologist C. Robertson (Rob) McClung is not your typical clock-watcher. His clocks are internal, biological, and operate in circadian rhythms-cy...
CIA closes dedicated climate change unit
Nov 20, 2012 (AFP)
The CIA has shuttered its unit dedicated to studying the impact of climate change on national security, shifting its activities elsewhere, an official said Tues...
World Bank fears devastating 4.0 degree warming
Nov 18, 2012 (AFP)
The World Bank warned Sunday that global temperatures could rise by four degrees this century without immediate action, with potentially devastating consequence...
CU-NOAA study shows summer climate change, mostly warming
Nov 18, 2012 (SPX)
Analysis of 90 years of observational data has revealed that summer climates in regions across the globe are changing - mostly, but not always, warming --accord...
Future warming likely to be on high side of climate projections
Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)
Climate model projections showing a greater rise in global temperature are likely to prove more accurate than those showing a lesser rise, according to a new an...
Obama vows climate push for 'future generations'
Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)
President Barack Obama on Wednesday vowed a new push for action on climate change, saying the United States had a duty to come together to curb emissions in the...
Climate Likely to Be on Hotter Side of Projections
Nov 14, 2012 (JPL)
A new NASA-funded study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo., finds climate model projections that show a greater rise in global temp...
Climate change: drought benchmark is flawed - study
Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)
A scientific method used in a landmark UN report that said warming was intensifying global drought is badly flawed, a study published on Wednesday said. Contrar...
Climate change and the ancient Maya
Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)
The role of climate change in the development and demise of classic Maya civilization, ranging from AD 300 to 1000, has been controversial for decades because o...
Cultural dimensions of climate change are underestimated, overlooked and misunderstood
Nov 14, 2012 (SPX)
The impact of climate change on many aspects of cultural life for people all over the world is not being sufficiently accounted for by scientists and policy-mak...
Drifting word clouds may change perceptions of climate science
Nov 09, 2012 (SPX)
Professor Alexander Bentley and colleagues found that words commonly used by scientists when discussing climate science - such as 'biodiversity', 'global', and ...
Australia to sign up for Kyoto 2
Nov 09, 2012 (AFP)
Key greenhouse gas emitter Australia on Friday said it will sign up for a second round of the Kyoto Protocol environmental protection treaty, but New Zealand op...
California is Home to Extreme Weather, Too
Nov 07, 2012 (SPX)
California isn't going to face a superstorm like Hurricane Sandy because the Pacific Ocean is too cold to feed that kind of weather system. But that doesn't mea...
Obama hints at new drive on climate change
Nov 07, 2012 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama has hinted he will make another push to fight climate change after cruising to a new term, but his room for maneuver will be limited e...
Megastorm Sandy injects climate into presidential vote
Nov 03, 2012 (AFP)
With just days until the US presidential vote, the devastation caused by megastorm Sandy has re-injected climate change into a neck-and-neck campaign that had l...
UK butterfly populations threatened by extreme drought and landscape fragmentation
Nov 02, 2012 (SPX)
A new study has found that the sensitivity and recovery of UK butterfly populations to extreme drought is affected by the overall area and degree of fragmentati...
Anthropocene Continues to Spark Scientific Debate
Nov 02, 2012 (SPX)
How have humans influenced Earth? Can geoscientists measure when human impacts began overtaking those of Earth's other inhabitants and that of the natural Earth...
Small organisms could dramatically impact world's climate
Oct 31, 2012 (SPX)
Warmer oceans in the future could significantly alter populations of phytoplankton, tiny organisms that could have a major impact on climate change. In the curr...
Did the changing climate shrink Europe's ancient hippos?
Oct 31, 2012 (SPX)
Giant German hippopotamuses wallowing on the banks of the Elbe are not a common sight. Yet 1.8 million years ago hippos were a prominent part of European wildli...
Link between cyclones, climate change unclear: scientists
Oct 30, 2012 (AFP)
Was Hurricane Sandy caused by climate change? This was the contention Tuesday of Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York state, which bore the brunt of the superstor...
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