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Measuring impact of drought on groundwater resources from space

Mar 21, 2019 (SPX)

The team, comprised of School of Earth and Space Exploration researchers Chandrakanta Ojha, Susanna Werth, and Manoochehr Shirzaei, focused on the San Joaquin V...

Drought wipes popular Chilean lake from the map

Mar 20, 2019 (AFP)

Lake Aculeo's demise is so sudden and complete it seems as if someone had pulled a giant plug and let all the water out. So sudden was it that as recently as 20...

Uncertain projections help to reveal the truth about future climate change

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

Despite major advances in climate modelling over the last 30 years, there are still a wide range of projections for global warming by 2100, even when the same s...

Hundreds of thousands join world youth climate demo

Mar 16, 2019 (AFP)

Classrooms in capitals from Bangkok to Berlin and Lagos to London emptied as organizers of the student strike called demonstrations in more than 100 countries. ...

New insights emerge on what drives long-term climatic trends

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

Now a team of scientists led by UC Santa Barbara's Francis Macdonald has published a study suggesting that tectonic activity may be the culprit. They found that...

Climate campaigners take France to court

Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)

The foundation of Nicolas Hulot, a crusading former environment minister who quit President Emmanuel Macron's government last year over what he saw as its failu...

Norway MPs want Nobel for student climate campaigner Greta

Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)

"We have proposed Greta Thunberg because if we do nothing to halt climate change it will be the cause of wars, conflict and refugees," Norwegian Socialist MP Fr...

Global youth climate strike could be 'milestone' moment

Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)

Barely six months later, Friday's youth-led strike -- promising 1,000 actions spread over 100 countries -- could be a "milestone moment" in a grassroots campaig...

Can we tweak marine chemistry to help stave off climate change?

Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)

The most recent Emissions Gap Report from the United Nations Environment Program notes "global greenhouse gas emissions show no signs of peaking." According to ...

Finding the right 'dose' for solar geoengineering

Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)

It can't. Applying huge doses of solar geoengineering to offset all warming from rising atmospheric C02 levels could worsen the climate problem - particularly r...

Trump cites controversial activist to dismiss climate change

Mar 12, 2019 (AFP)

"Wow!" Trump tweeted after quoting Patrick Moore, who earlier appeared on the president's favorite Fox News channel, saying that "the whole climate crisis, as t...

40,000 join first national climate march in Amsterdam

Mar 10, 2019 (AFP)

The organisers, including Greenpeace and a number of Dutch groups, said around 40,000 turned out for the demonstration, the first of its kind in the Netherlands...

Laser imaging of shells to help scientists expand record of past climate conditions

Mar 07, 2019 (UPI)

The remains of shells have long been used by archaeologists to gain insights into distribution and movement patterns of ancient coastal communities. Ancient she...

A faster, more accurate way to monitor drought

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

A new monitoring method developed at Duke University allows scientists to identify the onset of drought sooner - meaning conservation or remediation measures mi...

Tree rings tell climate stories that technology can't

Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)

A new study in Nature Communications by scientists from the Harvard Forest, Columbia University, ETH Zurich, and elsewhere shows how information revealed by a n...

Plants' drought alert system has unlikely evolutionary origin: underwater algae

Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)

Now, a new study shows that the built-in alert system that enables land plants to sense and respond to drought has an unlikely origin: their aquatic algal ances...

Swedish teen climate activist rallies German students

Mar 01, 2019 (AFP)

"Yes, we are angry. We are angry because the older generations are continuing to steal our future right now," the 16-year-old activist told a cheering crowd fro...

Targeting climate change, Washington governor joins Democratic race

Mar 01, 2019 (AFP)

The 68-year-old Inslee is the first governor of a US state to join the race to take on Republican Donald Trump -- a well-known climate skeptic -- in November 20...

Where's winter? Western Europe basks in record temperatures

Feb 26, 2019 (AFP)

What is going on with the weather, and how closely are the topsy-turvy temperatures linked to climate change? - What's causing the heat? - On Monday Britain saw...

Earth may be 140 years away from reaching carbon levels not seen in 56 million years

Feb 25, 2019 (SPX)

A new study finds humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a rate nine to 10 times higher than the greenhouse gas was emitted during the Paleoce...