CLIMATE SCIENCE - INDO DAILY

Climate change to drive weather disasters: UN experts

Mar 28, 2012 (AFP)

Climate change is amplifying risks from drought, floods, storm and rising seas, threatening all countries but small island states, poor nations and arid regions...

2C warming target 'out of reach' - ex UN climate chief

Mar 27, 2012 (AFP)

The UN's former climate chief on Tuesday said the global warming pledge he helped set at the Copenhagen Summit little more than two years ago was already unatta...

Cities on front line of climate change

Mar 27, 2012 (AFP)

The world's cities face the brunt of climate change but some are starting to respond vigorously to the threat, experts say at a conference here staged ahead of ...

Shadow of 'Anthropocene' falls over Rio Summit

Mar 26, 2012 (AFP)

Man's catastrophic damage to the environment and disparities between rich and poor head the daunting challenges facing the Rio Summit in June, experts said on M...

Why spring is blooming marvelous (and climate change makes it earlier)

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

With buds bursting early, only for a mild winter to turn Arctic and wipe them out, we are witnessing how warm weather can trigger flowering, even out of season,...

2001-2010 warmest decade on record: WMO

Mar 23, 2012 (AFP)

Climate change has accelerated in the past decade, the UN weather agency said Friday, releasing data showing that 2001 to 2010 was the warmest decade on record....

Scientists use rare mineral to correlate past climate events in Europe, Antarctica

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

The first day of spring brought record high temperatures across the northern part of the United States, while much of the Southwest was digging out from a recor...

Study Links Past Changes in Monsoon to Major Shifts in Indian Civilizations

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

A fundamental shift in the Indian monsoon has occurred over the last few millennia, from a steady humid monsoon that favored lush vegetation to extended periods...

Fielding questions about climate change

Mar 20, 2012 (SPX)

Canada defines itself as a nation that stretches from coast to coast to coast. But can we keep those coasts healthy in the face of climate change? Yves Gelinas,...

Drought spreads to Brazil, crop yields hit

Mar 20, 2012 (UPI)

Drought has spread from Argentina and Paraguay to Brazil and is hitting soy yields at a time of concerns that regional economic growth may suffer as pressures m...

Bright is the new black: New York roofs go cool

Mar 20, 2012 (SPX)

On the hottest day of the New York City summer in 2011, a white roof covering was measured at 42 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than the traditional black roof it wa...

Climate: Nine bids to host future technology centre

Mar 19, 2012 (AFP)

Plans for a global centre to help transfer clean technology to poorer countries have drawn nine bids, including from Iran's oil industry and a team led by the U...

Warming of 2 degrees inevitable over Canada

Mar 19, 2012 (SPX)

Even if zero emissions of greenhouse gases were to be achieved, the world's temperature would continue to rise by about a quarter of a degree over a decade. Tha...

Global temperature historic record updated

Mar 19, 2012 (UPI)

British meteorologists say they've updated a global temperature record dating back to 1850 with more data from the rapidly warming Arctic region. The new data f...

Climate Change Skepticism Stems from Recession

Mar 19, 2012 (SPX)

In recent years, the American public has grown increasingly skeptical of the existence of man-made climate change. Although pundits and scholars have suggested ...

Demise of large animals caused by both man and climate change

Mar 16, 2012 (SPX)

Past waves of extinctions which removed some of the world's largest animals were caused by both people and climate change, according to new research from the Un...

Australia unworried by tycoon's legal threats

Mar 15, 2012 (AFP)

Australia on Thursday dismissed threats from mining tycoon Clive Palmer to mount a High Court challenge to the nation's new pollution tax, saying he had "more m...

Berkeley Lab Quantifies Effect of Soot on Snow and Ice

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

A new study from scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), published in Nature Climate Change, has quantitatively demonstrated tha...

Australia to become hotter, drier: climate report

Mar 14, 2012 (AFP)

Australia's climate is warming at an alarming rate and is set to become drier despite recent record floods, scientists said Wednesday in a report that warns of ...

Asia climate disasters displace 42 million: ADB

Mar 13, 2012 (AFP)

Climate-related disasters have displaced more than 42 million people in Asia over the past two years, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday in a report callin...