CLIMATE SCIENCE - INDO DAILY

Oct 29, 2012 (SPX)

We're not used to thinking of ourselves as animals. But as Jason Samson sees it, climate is as important in shaping the distribution and movement of humans as i...

EU on track to exceed Kyoto emissions goal

Oct 26, 2012 (UPI)

The European Union is on track to not only meet but exceed greenhouse gas reduction goals set by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an analysis indicated this week. The E...

Pollution tax stokes Australian inflation

Oct 24, 2012 (AFP)

Australian inflation came in ahead of forecasts Wednesday, rising a seasonally adjusted 1.2 percent in the September quarter as electricity prices jumped follow...

EU on track for Kyoto and 2020 emissions targets

Oct 24, 2012 (AFP)

The European Union (EU) will go beyond its targets to cut greenhouse gases by 2012 under the UN's Kyoto Protocol and is on course for meeting its goal for 2020,...

A sharper look into the past for archaeology and climate research

Oct 23, 2012 (SPX)

By using a new series of measurements of radiocarbon dates on seasonally laminated sediments from Lake Suigetsu in Japan, a more precise calibration of radiocar...

Improving effectiveness of solar geoengineering

Oct 23, 2012 (SPX)

Solar radiation management is a type of geoengineering that would manipulate the climate in order to reduce the impact of global warming caused by greenhouse ga...

Targeting solar geoengineering to minimize risk and inequality

Oct 23, 2012 (SPX)

By tailoring geoengineering efforts by region and by need, a new model promises to maximize the effectiveness of solar radiation management while mitigating its...

S. Korea to host secretariat of UN climate fund

Oct 20, 2012 (AFP)

South Korea on Saturday won a bid to host the secretariat of a United Nations fund aimed at helping fight global warming, President Lee Myung-Bak announced. The...

Canadian government knew about sea fertilizing: organizers

Oct 19, 2012 (AFP)

Organizers of a controversial ocean fertilization project off Canada's west coast said Friday officials knew of the undertaking but did not stop it, and that it...

Too late to stop global warming by cutting emissions

Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)

Governments and institutions should focus on developing adaption policies to address and mitigate against the negative impact of global warming, rather than put...

Global drought a 'new normal': report

Oct 18, 2012 (UPI)

Increasing drought conditions across the planet are part of a "new normal" which oddly presents new business opportunities, a new Bank of America Merrill Lynch ...

World 'not on track' for temperature target: UN

Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)

Governments are "not on track" to achieve a target of keeping the average global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the UN cli...

Canada Green leader warns against fertilizing seas

Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)

Canada's lone Green Party member of parliament, Elizabeth May, on Thursday decried the so-called "ocean fertilization" of the Pacific with what she claimed was ...

Russia hints plans to quit Kyoto Protocol

Oct 18, 2012 (AFP)

Russia on Thursday hinted that it may refuse to sign up to a new round of targeted carbon cuts that could see the Kyoto environmental protection treaty extended...

Science Of Global Climate Modeling Confirmed By Discoveries On Mars

Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)

Scientific modeling methods that predicted climate change on Earth have been found to be accurate on Mars as well, according to a paper presented at an internat...

Climate negotiations relying on 'dangerous' thresholds to avoid catastrophe will not succeed

Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)

The identified critical threshold for dangerous climate change saying that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees Celsius seems not to hav...

Obama, Romney asked to debate on climate

Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)

Experts appealed Thursday to President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to address climate change when they debate in Florida, saying the coastal state is already h...

Glaciers cracking in the presence of carbon dioxide

Oct 11, 2012 (SPX)

The well-documented presence of excessive levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere is causing global temperatures to rise and glaciers and ice caps to m...

Study maps greenhouse gas emissions to building, street level for US cities

Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)

Arizona State University researchers have developed a new software system capable of estimating greenhouse gas emissions across entire urban landscapes, all the...

Researchers Find Ancient Carbon Resurfacing in Lakes

Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)

A new study reveals that a significant amount of carbon released into the atmosphere from lakes and rivers in Southern Quebec, Canada, is very old - approximate...