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Key to predicting climate change could be blowing in the wind, researchers find
Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)
One of the co-authors was Alex Pullen, an assistant professor of environmental engineering and earth sciences at Clemson University. "Why study the past? It's a...
Extreme weather to rise even if Paris goals are met: study
Feb 14, 2018 (AFP)
The report in the journal Science Advances analyzes the likelihood of hot spells, dry periods and excess rain in the coming years, all phenomena that are exacer...
Worsening Ethiopian drought threatens to end nomadic lifestyle
Feb 13, 2018 (AFP)
The soon-to-be village of Dabafayed is intended as a new, permanent home for once-nomadic herders made destitute by the country's back-to-back droughts. The lif...
US intel chief issues warning about climate change
Feb 13, 2018 (AFP)
"The impacts of the long-term trends toward a warming climate, more air pollution, biodiversity loss, and water scarcity are likely to fuel economic and social ...
S.Africa declares drought a 'national disaster'
Feb 13, 2018 (AFP)
The government said it had elevated the drought to a "national disaster" after reassessing its "magnitude and severity". Cape Town is in the grip of a three-yea...
Reducing the footprint of a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide
Feb 06, 2018 (SPX)
In research published on Dec. 4 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, chemists at USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute say they have found a way ...
Climate variability - past and future
Feb 06, 2018 (SPX)
Until now, it was believed that glacial periods were characterised by extreme temperature variability, while interglacial periods were relatively stable. The re...
NETs will not compensate for inadequate climate change mitigation efforts: EASAC report
Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)
This new report finds that none of the NETs has the potential to deliver carbon removals at the gigaton (Gt) scale and at the rate of deployment envisaged by th...
Most of last 11,000 years cooler than past decade in North America, Europe
Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)
The study revealed important natural fluctuations in climate have occurred over past millennia, which would have naturally led to climatic cooling today in the ...
Latin Americans more concerned about climate change than US, Canada
Jan 30, 2018 (UPI)
Roughly half of all American adults think climate change is a serious threat. Eight in ten people in Latin America and the Caribbean consider climate change a p...
France says it fell short on greenhouse gas emissions
Jan 30, 2018 (AFP)
The environment ministry said the country emitted 463 tons of greenhouse gases, measured as carbon dioxide equivalents, or 3.6 percent more than its goal. It at...
How to reduce heat extremes by 3C
Jan 30, 2018 (SPX)
The modifications could include lightening buildings, roads and other infrastructure in high population areas and changing crops and engaging in no-till agricul...
Temp targets will be missed within decades unless emissions reversed
Jan 25, 2018 (SPX)
In their latest paper, published in the February issue of Nature Geoscience, Dr Philip Goodwin from the University of Southampton and Professor Ric Williams fro...
Cape Town now faces dry taps by April 12
Jan 23, 2018 (AFP)
If drastic consumption reductions are not achieved by "Day Zero", people will have to queue at 200 standpipes for daily rations of 25 litres (6.6 US gallons). T...
Dimming the Sun to cool Earth could ravage wildlife: study
Jan 22, 2018 (AFP)
"Rapid warming after stopping geoengineering would be a huge threat to the natural environment and biodiversity," said co-author Alan Robock, a professor at Rut...
Release of ancient methane due to changing climate kept in check by ocean waters
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
Trapped in ocean sediments near continents lie ancient reservoirs of methane called methane hydrates. These ice-like water and methane structures encapsulate so...
Pentagon strategy drops climate change as a security threat
Jan 19, 2018 (AFP)
The move is perhaps not surprising given that President Donald Trump has called climate change a hoax, and last June announced that he would pull the United Sta...
Long-Term Warming Trend Continued in 2017: NASA, NOAA
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
Continuing the planet's long-term warming trend, globally averaged temperatures in 2017 were 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.90 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 1951...
Future climate change revealed by current climate variations
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
A team of scientists from the University of Exeter and the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology has pioneered a new process to reduce uncertainty around climate sens...
Worst-case global warming scenarios not credible: study
Jan 17, 2018 (AFP)
A revised calculation of how greenhouse gases drive up the planet's temperature reduces the range of possible end-of-century outcomes by more than half, researc...
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