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Gassy dinos may have warmed the Earth: study
May 07, 2012 (AFP)
Giant dinosaurs that roamed the Earth millions of years ago may have warmed the planet with the gas they produced from eating leafy plants, British scientists s...
Drought hits Angola's already struggling farms
May 06, 2012 (AFP)
A drought is threatening Angola's already modest food production, in a setback for efforts to revive once-vibrant farmlands abandoned during decades of war. The...
Study shows experiments underestimate plant responses to climate change
May 04, 2012 (SPX)
Experiments may dramatically underestimate how plants will respond to climate change in the future. That's the conclusion of an analysis of 50 plant studies on ...
Pentagon cites climate, energy concerns
May 04, 2012 (UPI)
Climate and environmental change are emerging as national security threats that "weigh heavily" on the Pentagon's strategies, said U.S. Secretary of Defense Leo...
Arabic records allow past climate to be reconstructed
May 04, 2012 (SPX)
Corals, trees and marine sediments, among others, are direct evidence of the climate of the past, but they are not the only indicators. A team led by Spanish sc...
Global warming: New research emphasizes the role of economic growth
May 04, 2012 (SPX)
It's a message no one wants to hear: To slow down global warming, we'll either have to put the brakes on economic growth or transform the way the world's econom...
With climate and vegetation data, UCSB geographers closer to predicting droughts in Africa
May 03, 2012 (SPX)
What might happen if droughts were predicted months ahead of time? Food aid and other humanitarian efforts could be put together sooner and executed better, say...
European climate change to hit Scandinavia and south hardest
May 03, 2012 (AFP)
Global warming in Europe this century will mostly affect Scandinavia and the Mediterranean basin, the European Environment Agency warned on Thursday. "The highe...
South Korea adopts emissions trading
May 03, 2012 (UPI)
South Korea approved a national emissions trading scheme covering 500 of the country's largest emitters. Of the 151 lawmakers who voted Wednesday, just three vo...
Warming hole delayed climate change over eastern United States
Apr 30, 2012 (SPX)
Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in the late 20th century created ...
IEA warns of doubled CO2 emissions
Apr 27, 2012 (UPI)
Global greenhouse gas emissions will nearly double by 2050 under current policies unless urgent action is taken, the International Energy Agency has warned. Iss...
Australia drought-free for first time in a decade
Apr 27, 2012 (AFP)
Australia Friday said it would be officially drought-free next week for the first time in more than a decade, providing relief for struggling farmers. The excep...
Global Warming has driven Europe's Mountain Plants to Migrate 2.7 m Upwards in 7 Years
Apr 27, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Granada Department of Botanic have participated in an international study that has confirmed that global warming is causing pla...
CU research shows warming climate threatens ecology at mountain research site west of Boulder
Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)
A series of papers published this month on ecological changes at 26 global research sites - including one administered by the University of Colorado Boulder in ...
Millions face hunger in Sahel as NGOs struggle to raise aid
Apr 23, 2012 (AFP)
Aid agencies said Monday they are facing a multi-million dollar funding shortage to deal with a food crisis in the Sahel where people are resorting to increasin...
Mexico's Senate passes climate change bill
Apr 20, 2012 (AFP)
Mexico's Senate has unanimously passed a climate change bill aimed at reducing carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2050, following Britain in creating legally bin...
Needs high, prospects low for Rio Summit
Apr 18, 2012 (AFP)
With two months left before leaders assemble for the UN's Rio Summit, prospects for a radical fix of the planet's worsening environmental ills and poverty seem ...
Southern Africa to build climate change study centre
Apr 18, 2012 (AFP)
Southern African countries on Wednesday agreed to launch a centre to tie together climate change studies across the region. South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Zamb...
Climate Change Boosts Then Quickly Stunts Plants, Decade-long Study Shows
Apr 18, 2012 (SPX)
Global warming may initially make the grass greener, but not for long, according to new research results. The findings, published this week in the journal Natur...
Half of England in drought: officials
Apr 16, 2012 (AFP)
Half of England was officially in drought on Monday after the Environment Agency declared another 17 counties short of water, and warned the situation may conti...
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