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An increase in Southern Ocean upwelling may explain the Holocene CO2 rise
Aug 03, 2018 (SPX)
A second unique feature is that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rose about 20 parts per million (ppm), from 260 ppm in the early Holocene to 280 ppm ...
Iraqi farmers fight to save cattle from drought
Jul 30, 2018 (AFP)
As southern Iraq suffers through a punishing drought, desperate cattle breeders are having to sell off animals to keep others alive. Sattar, 52, has already see...
Sri Lanka waives debt for 200,000 women in drought areas
Jul 25, 2018 (AFP)
Government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said women in a dozen districts who had taken small loans from microfinance institutions would have their debts forgiven ...
Cold wave reveals potential benefits of urban heat islands
Jul 24, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers from Princeton University have found that the urban heat island effect - cities are hotter in the summer than their surrounding areas - also helps k...
Native bison hunters amplified climate impacts on North American prairie fires
Jul 24, 2018 (SPX)
Fire was an important indigenous tool for shaping North American ecosystems, but the relative importance of indigenous burning versus climate on fire patterns r...
Microclimates to provide species refuge from warming temperatures
Jul 23, 2018 (UPI)
When researchers at the universities of York and Exeter looked at how vulnerable species of plants and animals will adapt to rising temperatures in Britain, the...
European heatwave brings drought, wildfires
Jul 20, 2018 (AFP)
Farmers across the region have warned that crop yields will be down while poor grass quality is affecting the quality of milk and the availability of animal fod...
Humans are changing global seasonal climate cycles, satellite data shows
Jul 20, 2018 (UPI)
Previous studies have revealed seasonal changes on the ground. As the planet has warmed, animal migrations have shifted -- birds are flying south and flowers ar...
A scientist's final paper looks toward Earth's future climate
Jul 18, 2018 (SPX)
A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences was led by Piers J. Sellers, former director of the Earth Sciences Division at NASA's G...
More Americans than ever say climate change is real, human-caused
Jul 11, 2018 (UPI)
The 7-page report by the National Surveys on Energy and the Environment says 60 percent of Americans "now think that global warming is happening and that humans...
Europe looking for climate strategies to 2050
Jul 06, 2018 (UPI)
"The clean energy transition will be key, and achieving our climate objectives will require contributions from every part of the economy and society," European ...
Macron rallies sovereign wealth funds against climate change
Jul 06, 2018 (AFP)
The funds manage assets with a total value of $3 trillion and include that of Norway, the biggest in the world, valued alone at $1 trillion. Four Gulf funds -- ...
In a warming world, could air conditioning make things worse?
Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)
Writing in a special climate change issue of the journal Public Library of Science (PLOS) Medicine, a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madis...
Climate models fail to account for CO2's impact on life, scientists say
Jun 29, 2018 (UPI)
In a new study, researchers from the University of Exeter contend warming could slow even as a rise in CO2 accelerates. Not only do current models mostly ignore...
Dutch unveil ambitious law to cut greenhouse gases
Jun 27, 2018 (AFP)
The proposed new law, which has the backing of the vast majority of political parties in the 150-seat lower house of parliament, "sets clear greenhouse reductio...
Latvia declares state of disaster over drought
Jun 26, 2018 (AFP)
The westernmost region of Kurzeme has been hit hardest, though several areas have not seen proper rain since April, resulting in burnt-up fields and lost crops....
China unveils new climate goals for 2020
Jun 25, 2018 (UPI)
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China outlined goals for air quality and the broader environment from 2020, the official Xinhua News Agency repo...
Ocean's heat cycle shows that atmospheric carbon may be headed elsewhere
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
A recent study in the journal Nature Geosciences examined the global carbon cycle and suggests that existing studies may have misgauged how carbon is distribute...
Drought haunts farmers in Poland, Baltic states
Jun 20, 2018 (AFP)
Farmers in the nearby Baltic EU states of Latvia and Lithuania are also facing drought, with Latvian officials due to consider declaring a state of emergency on...
Drought-hit Iraq suspends farming of key crops
Jun 18, 2018 (AFP)
"The agricultural plan for the summer" was modified "because the quantities of water needed for these cereals are not available", spokesman Hamid al-Nayef said....
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