CLIMATE SCIENCE - INDO DAILY

Aug 21, 2012 (UPI)

Mayans may have hastened the demise of their civilization by clearing forests, making an already naturally drying climate drier, U.S. scientists say. Prolonged ...

Experiment would test cloud geoengineering as way to slow warming

Aug 21, 2012 (SPX)

Even though it sounds like science fiction, researchers are taking a second look at a controversial idea that uses futuristic ships to shoot salt water high int...

UN agency calls for global action plan on drought

Aug 21, 2012 (AFP)

The worst effects of drought could be avoided if countries had a disaster management plan to confront the problem, the UN World Meteorological Organization said...

Tropical species 'not as vulnerable' to climate change extinction

Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)

In the face of a changing climate many species must adapt or perish. Ecologists studying evolutionary responses to climate change forecast that cold-blooded tro...

Modeling reveals significant climatic impacts of megapolitan expansion

Aug 17, 2012 (SPX)

According to the United Nations' 2011 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects, global urban population is expected to gain more than 2.5 billion new inhabitant...

Stepping stones to the north

Aug 17, 2012 (SPX)

A new study led by scientists at the University of York has shown how birds, butterflies, other insects and spiders have colonised nature reserves and areas pro...

1.5 million years of climate history revealed after scientists solve mystery of the deep

Aug 15, 2012 (SPX)

1.5 million years of climate history revealed after scientists solve mystery of the deep Study successfully reconstructed temperature from the deep sea to revea...

Hibernation altered by climate change takes a toll on Rocky Mountain animal species

Aug 14, 2012 (SPX)

Climate change is causing a late wake-up call from hibernation for a species of Rocky Mountain ground squirrel and the effect is deadly. A University of Alberta...

Diseased trees new source of climate gas

Aug 13, 2012 (SPX)

Diseased trees in forests may be a significant new source of methane that causes climate change, according to researchers at the Yale School of Forestry and Env...

Climate: US call for 'flexibility' on warming spurs row

Aug 08, 2012 (AFP)

The United States ran into crossfire on Wednesday after it called for "flexibility" in climate talks yet acknowledged this may not guarantee meeting the UN's ta...

Stanford expert brings climate change science to heated Capitol Hill

Aug 07, 2012 (SPX)

Now's the time to prepare for the heat waves, heavy rains and droughts that climate change will bring, says Stanford's Chris Field, a noted climate researcher. ...

Mapping the future of climate change in Africa

Aug 06, 2012 (SPX)

Our planet's changing climate is devastating communities in Africa through droughts, floods and myriad other disasters. Using detailed regional climate models a...

Climate change to blame for extreme heat: NASA scientist

Aug 04, 2012 (AFP)

Human-driven climate change is to blame for a series of increasingly hot summers and the situation is already worse than was expected just two decades ago, a to...

India's puny monsoon sparks fears of drought

Aug 03, 2012 (AFP)

India's monsoon rains that lash the country each summer arrived late and have been feeble this year, leading to hardship for hundreds of millions of farmers lik...

Cuts in super greenhouse gas stalled by China, India, and Brazil

Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)

"China, India, and Brazil have again stalled formal negotiations to cut production of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol, a fast-action strategy that would provid...

Local weather patterns affect beliefs about global warming

Aug 01, 2012 (SPX)

Local weather patterns temporarily influence people's beliefs about evidence for global warming, according to research by political scientists at New York Unive...

Chronic 2000-04 drought, worst in 800 years, may be the 'new normal'

Aug 01, 2012 (SPX)

The chronic drought that hit western North America from 2000 to 2004 left dying forests and depleted river basins in its wake and was the strongest in 800 years...

Climate change could open trade opportunities for some vulnerable nations

Aug 01, 2012 (SPX)

Tanzania is one developing country that could actually benefit from climate change by increasing exports of corn to the U.S. and other nations, according to a s...

Climate-change skeptic has 'turnaround'

Jul 30, 2012 (UPI)

Global warming is real and is caused "almost entirely" by people, a University of California physicist and "converted" climate change skeptic says. "Three years...

Global warming is due to humans: US ex-skeptic

Jul 30, 2012 (AFP)

A prominent US skeptic of the human causes of climate change, Richard Muller, has reversed course and said on Monday that he now believes greenhouse gases are r...