CLIMATE SCIENCE

Climate Science News

3,796 articles

Ecosystems cope with stress more effectively the greater the biodiversity
Sep 10, 2012 (SPX)
Higher average temperatures and increasing salt concentrations are stress factors that many ecosystems face today in the wake of climate change. However, do all...
Climate: Kyoto scheme sees billionth tonne of saved CO2
Sep 07, 2012 (AFP)
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a Kyoto Protocol device to curb greenhouse gases through market forces, has now issued a billion tonnes of carbon credits...
U.N. touts climate change talks progress
Sep 06, 2012 (UPI)
The United Nations said progress was made at the latest climate talks in Bangkok. The talks, which concluded Wednesday, were intended to prepare the way for maj...
Climate change stories from the abyss
Sep 05, 2012 (SPX)
A team of scientists including those from the University of Southampton have shed new light on the world's history of climate change. The Pacific Ocean has rema...
Australia scraps 'dirty' plant closures
Sep 05, 2012 (UPI)
Australia has scrapped its contract for closure program aimed at retiring 2,000 megawatts of highly emissions-intensive power generation by 2020. The government...
Global climate talks make headway: UN
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
The United Nations on Wednesday hailed "concrete progress" at week-long climate talks in Bangkok, but environmental campaigners warned much faster action was ne...
Research reveals contrasting consequences of a warmer Earth
Sep 04, 2012 (SPX)
A new study, by scientists from the Universities of York, Glasgow and Leeds, involving analysis of fossil and geological records going back 540 million years, s...
New Nature study illuminates 55 million years of the carbon cycle and climate history
Sep 03, 2012 (SPX)
A study in Nature provides, in unprecedented detail, the history of a crucial indicator of the relationship between the carbon cycle and climate processes over ...
Drought hits Mississippi shipping, even after hurricane
Aug 31, 2012 (AFP)
When it comes to maneuvering a powerful towboat in as little as four feet of muddy water, it helps to know the Mississippi River as intimately as Arthur Ward do...
Climate: Could 'Dr. Strangelove' idea be an option?
Aug 30, 2012 (AFP)
A controversial idea to brake global warming, first floated by the father of the hydrogen bomb, is affordable and technically feasible, but its environmental im...
Storms, drought overshadow UN climate talks
Aug 30, 2012 (AFP)
World climate change negotiators faced warnings Thursday that a string of extreme weather events around the globe show urgent action on emission cuts is needed ...
Forest Razing by Ancient Maya Worsened Droughts
Aug 27, 2012 (SPX)
For six centuries, the ancient Maya flourished, with more than a hundred city-states scattered across what is now southern Mexico and northern Central America. ...
Past tropical climate change linked to ocean circulation
Aug 27, 2012 (SPX)
A new record of past temperature change in the tropical Atlantic Ocean's subsurface provides clues as to why the Earth's climate is so sensitive to ocean circul...
Drastic desertification
Aug 27, 2012 (SPX)
The Dead Sea, a salt sea without an outlet, lies over 400 meters below sea level. Tourists like its high salt content because it increases their buoyancy. "For ...
Carbon efficiency failing to fight warming: study
Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)
A surge in carbon emissions from power demand in the developing world is overwhelming progress by nations including China and the United States in improving eff...
Nobel prize-winning scientist cites evidence of link between extreme weather, global warming
Aug 22, 2012 (SPX)
New scientific analysis strengthens the view that record-breaking summer heat, crop-withering drought and other extreme weather events in recent years do, indee...
Climate vs. weather: Extreme events narrow the doubts
Aug 22, 2012 (AFP)
Heatwaves, drought and floods that have struck the northern hemisphere for the third summer running are narrowing doubts that man-made warming is disrupting Ear...
Studies shed light on why species stay or go in response to climate change
Aug 21, 2012 (SPX)
Two new studies by scientists at UC Berkeley provide a clearer picture of why some species move in response to climate change, and where they go. One study, pub...
Tornado numbers lower because of drought
Aug 21, 2012 (UPI)
The ongoing U.S. drought may have one bright side, researchers said, as a record-low number of tornadoes have been recorded. While drought and hot, dry weather ...
Climate and Drought Lessons from Ancient Egypt
Aug 21, 2012 (SPX)
Ancient pollen and charcoal preserved in deeply buried sediments in Egypt's Nile Delta document the region's ancient droughts and fires, including a huge drough...
Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.