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Between recent ice ages, temperatures in Antarctica apparently increased significantly, a new body of researches shows. This has led scientists to conclude that the Eastern part of the Southern continent, which is currently melting faster due to global warming, also did so in the past. This demonstrates an ongoing su... |
19 November 2009
07:23 GMT |
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Within the next 90 to 100 years, carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will have to be all phased out, scientists reveal. A temperature rise of only two degrees Celsius would reshape the international map, modifying the borders of all countries that are next to seas and oceans. In order to avoid catastrop... |
18 November 2009
18:51 GMT |
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In spite of the fact that many choose to refuse the idea that global warming and climate change exist, it is nevertheless happening, as satellite data and meteorological measurements show. Speaking of the latter, the National Science Foundation (NSF) reports that a recent study showed a massive discrepancy between th... |
13 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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In spite of looking like a giant stretch of ice in the Northern Pacific, Greenland fulfills a number of functions in the region, not the least important of them being the fact that it helps keep the North Pole cool. The way it manages to accomplish that is by being large and white, in the purest of senses. Light comi... |
13 November 2009
11:04 GMT |
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Scientists have determined that the current global-warming phenomenon will not lead to all the river deltas in the world being swamped. A multitude of factors will determine which of the landscape features will be destroyed or not, including the level of tectonic activity in plates around their locations, and the typ... |
11 November 2009
02:25 GMT |
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Tiny aquatic creatures, no larger than a grain of sand, can yield significant details of past climate changes, as long as scientists know what they are looking for. Billions of these tiny organisms can be found on the bottom of the ocean, and they hold inside them information about past sea levels, temperatures, and ... |
9 November 2009
10:27 GMT |
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Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the most renowned natural landmarks in the world today. Dominating large plains, the mountain looks as if it had its top cut off by a giant wielding a sword. Its iconic image is partially given by the fact that, while in Africa, it has its top covered in snow and ice. While... |
3 November 2009
03:09 GMT |
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In a development that could have serious implications on our planet's future, scientists announce that the multi-year ice that once adorned the North Pole is all but gone at this point. In its stead, seasonal ice, that freezes and then melts every year, seems to be the primary form of frozen water at the locatio... |
2 November 2009
03:30 GMT |
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While discussions over climate change are raging on back on Earth, it may be that we are not the only planet in the solar system to experience this phenomenon. According to new readings from the Hubble and Keck telescopes, Jupiter may currently be in the midst of a very violent period of global warming, as evidenced ... |
29 October 2009
14:05 GMT |
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Geologists in Kyrgyzstan are currently struggling to get the world's attention on the extremely serious conditions of their country's glaciers. In the best case scenario, the ice spreads that managed to endure the warming of the climate better dropped in levels by about 20 percent over the last 50 years. Th... |
28 October 2009
04:39 GMT |
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For the first time, geologists and other experts are able to show precisely how volcanoes were able to bring forth a period of sustained global cooling more than 450 million years ago. Ironically, it was precisely these volcanoes that first triggered a period of global warming during these times, by erupting almost n... |
27 October 2009
22:01 GMT |
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One of the main conditions related to finding a solution in the issue of global warming and climate change is to have strong popular support. That is to say, the economic measures that need to be set in place in order to reduce the amount of pollution being emitted into the atmosphere are very likely to imply higher ... |
26 October 2009
04:34 GMT |
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Global warming is believed to be a serious contributor to the frequency and intensity of hurricanes in the Northern Atlantic at this point, but pieces of evidence of this are not widely agreed upon. As a result, looking back into the planet's hurricane history could make it clear if the recent spike in the weath... |
22 October 2009
05:41 GMT |
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Over the past few years, governmental and private programs have seen a slow, but constant, decrease in the amount of pollution that is generated around the world. In spite of that, scientific measurements have revealed that the pollution layers are, in fact, getting thicker, and experts have had no explanation for th... |
22 October 2009
02:47 GMT |
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Dead zones is a term used to describe areas of the oceans or seas that have been so heavily contaminated with pollutants, that it's virtually impossible for fish and other marine animals to live there. Only some types of algae manage to survive in the toxic conditions, and, by thriving, they consume the short su... |
9 October 2009
06:25 GMT |
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A new scientific study has determined that soil-dwelling creatures that inhabited the world some 55 million years ago evolved to be a lot smaller than they had been before, largely due to the increased global temperatures during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). This is among the first studies to investiga... |
7 October 2009
02:46 GMT |
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China has finished building the largest hydroelectric plant in the world, the 7,661-foot-long Three Gorges Dam, on the Yangtze River, only for a short time. Elevated to the rank of national symbol, the dam has already come under criticism from environmentalists, who say that it may be a potent methane source. During ... |
30 September 2009
05:41 GMT |
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For the first time in more than a year, the Sun's face is again spotted. Two new features have been identified on its surface, and astronomers say that this may be an indicator of the fact that the solar cycle is intensifying. Though it should theoretically be near the peak of the current cycle, the star has bee... |
25 September 2009
08:32 GMT |
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Although authorities around the world are fighting to reduce carbon emissions, and to switch to greener methods of producing electrical current, it's highly unlikely that this will happen anytime soon. This is one of the main reasons why the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Ronald C. Crane Professor o... |
22 September 2009
03:30 GMT |
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The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, announced recently that the planned UN climate talks, which are to begin in less than ten weeks, in Copenhagen, Denmark, were in danger of failing for the third consecutive year, if countries did not come to an agreement on the nature of the problems at hand and their potenti... |
21 September 2009
04:42 GMT |
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The American space agency NASA started measuring the extent of Arctic ices in 1979, via its satellite program. Since then, it has conducted constant investigations of the North Pole, and has drawn maps of ice extents during every minimum and maximum extent of the ice sheets. Measurements for this year indicate that t... |
18 September 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Geologists warn that scientific understanding of the correlations that may exist between global warming and intense volcanic activities are very poorly understood, if at all. One possible connection, they say, could be that higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere will melt ice caps, including those at... |
18 September 2009
02:43 GMT |
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According to a newly released report from the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) released today, September 2nd, it would appear that the current warming trend recorded in the Arctic could have massive repercussions on our planet. The study shows that as much as one quarter of the globe's population could be floode... |
2 September 2009
01:42 GMT |
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British investigators from the UK Royal Society have determined in a new study that some of the propositions related to mitigating the effects of global warming and climate change through geoengineering are feasible, or at least technically possible. These approaches may also yield positive results, the same report a... |
1 September 2009
09:56 GMT |
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According to investigators at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), the water scarcity currently being experienced in southeastern Australia has been steadily developing for the past 15 years. While many have believed this to be the case, expert Dr. Albert van Dijk's study is ... |
28 August 2009
22:01 GMT |
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Designing fossil fuel-based power plants outfitted with carbon-capture and -storage (CCS) technologies seems to be a lot to ask from the industry. The equipment required for such technologies to function is still prohibitively expensive, and their efficacy has yet to be fully tested because of this. But engineers are... |
27 August 2009
17:01 GMT |
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For California, heat waves are nothing new. The state is constantly bathed by the sun, and benefits from an arid and hot climate. But, from time to time, massive heat waves come over it, such as the one in 2006, which killed 600 people, 5,000 cattle and 70,000 poultry in one swift blow. This all happened between mid ... |
26 August 2009
09:48 GMT |
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With the growing threat of global warming and climate change looming ahead, biologists are beginning to plan for the future. A debate is currently raging in the international community as to which way of protecting endangered species and conserving biodiversity is the best. While some believe that local programs appl... |
25 August 2009
21:41 GMT |
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The concept of urban metabolism is not by far a new one. Scientists have proposed that similarities exist between the world's megacities and living organisms for a long time, but now reports on how human settlements function are drawing more and more parallels to the living world. The comparisons, experts say, m... |
19 August 2009
04:41 GMT |
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In addition to carbon dioxide, the main gas held responsible for global warming, methane, is one of the most potent agents that can bring about climate change. Efforts of reducing emissions exist, but they are insufficient. To make matters worse, it has been recently confirmed that the gas escapes its Arctic sea-bed ... |
18 August 2009
10:33 GMT |
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New evidence uncovered by experts seems to point out the fact that wobbles in our planet's tilt may have been the triggers behind global warming events that took place in prehistoric times. It has for a long time been known that Earth's tilt in regard to the Sun is not stable, and that our planet wobbles as... |
16 August 2009
08:12 GMT |
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According to scientific evidence seen by the BBC News, it would appear that one of the largest ice sheets in the Antarctic, Pine Island Glacier, is melting four times faster than it did only ten years ago. Satellite measurements of the region have revealed the fact that the formation is at this time losing about 16 m... |
14 August 2009
02:21 GMT |
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Studying ancient rocks, excavated from miles under the Earth's surface, can take geologists to amazing discoveries about the history of our planet, and the way the climate shifted over the billions of years of our history. Therefore, it came as little surprise to investigators when they learned that periods of g... |
13 August 2009
04:15 GMT |
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Over the past few decades, our civilization has released billions of tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, including sulfur, into the atmosphere, generating what in the 1970s and 1980s came to be known as the “human volcano” effect. However, it has been widely believed until now that only vol... |
28 July 2009
02:44 GMT |
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As I am trying to offer you, the readers, the most conclusive data on the threats of climate change, and the best possible ways of dealing with them, I thought I should enlist a second opinion, coming from one of the top environmental groups in the world. Dr. Neil Hamilton, the Director of the WWF International Arcti... |
11 July 2009
10:11 GMT |
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I've been trying to find an appropriate title for this article for quite some time now, but I couldn't come up with one that would draw as many readers to it as possible. This piece is about the challenges that are brought forth by global warming, the people fighting to sooth or exacerbate them, the animals... |
11 July 2009
10:11 GMT |
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According to a declaration published by the participant nations in the G8 Summit this year, developing and developed nations alike have agreed that global temperatures must not be allowed to increase by more than 2° Celsius from 1990 levels. Leaders of the most powerful countries discussed with presidents and oth... |
10 July 2009
07:02 GMT |
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A new research shows that mass-media has a tendency of coating most of its stories regarding the perils of global warming – increased floods and droughts, higher temperatures, and glacier meltdown – into a “doomsday cloak,” enticing either panic, or a sensation of disbelief among the viewers, ... |
9 July 2009
20:21 GMT |
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For quite some time now, researchers have known that the vast amounts of carbon dioxide that are stored in the Arctic permafrost (frozen soils, river deltas and other sediments) will in the future play a significant part in the warming of the planet, but they never had a clear idea of just what extent this influence ... |
6 July 2009
09:52 GMT |
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According to BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin, the upcoming G8 meeting, to reunite the leaders of the most developed countries in the world plus Russia, will most likely set new standards for carbon emissions to be respected by the whole world. Plans are to reduce greenhouse gas outputs by more than 80 percent ... |
6 July 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Using historical meteorological data, other accounts and a natural climate “archive,” researchers investigating the evolution of the ice sheet between Greenland and the North European island archipelago of Svalbard have determined that the ice there is at its lowest in 800 years of tracked history. This p... |
2 July 2009
06:55 GMT |
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Gordon Brown, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, has recently proposed the creation of a £60-billion help fund, money that is to be distributed among Third-World nations. The aid would help less developed countries deal with the greenhouse gas emissions cuts proposed by the United Nations, while at the s... |
26 June 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Since the full effects of global warming and climate change started coming into international focus, some experts have determined that large numbers of refugees, mostly coming form underdeveloped, Third-World countries, will flood the borders of the developed world. Their figures, which stated that millions of immigr... |
26 June 2009
03:59 GMT |
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The rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are generally considered to be the main cause of global warming and climate change, with numerous studies linking the two directly. Still, there are those who refuse to listen to reason and science, and who believe that the levels of CO2 in the air are &ld... |
22 June 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Recent investigations have proven that large and seemingly unmovable glaciers can rapidly shrink, in just a few centuries. Researchers from the University at Buffalo came to this conclusion after they analyzed traces left behind by a large ancient glacier, which existed in the Canadian Arctic. They concluded that the... |
22 June 2009
05:25 GMT |
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The Gamburtsev mountain range is one of the most visited destinations in Antarctica, because it offers a rich ground for scientists to conduct a large series of experiments in the most varied of research fields. In one such experiment, scientists have used radars to map the terrain underneath the ices, and get a glim... |
4 June 2009
06:56 GMT |
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Lately, with the influence of global warming rising worldwide, animal experts said that the rise in temperatures might catch many species off-guard, as in unable to modify their behavioral patterns fast enough to survive. They also said that this situation would lead to a massive extinction among species, especially ... |
4 June 2009
04:17 GMT |
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Experts from the Yale University and the George Mason University have recently finished compiling a new study regarding the views that American citizens have on global warming, and determined the fact that the population seems to be divided into six categories on the matter. They identified the alarmed, the concerned... |
30 May 2009
03:50 GMT |
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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is the generic name given to a variety of technological means through which facilities that burn fossil fuels limit the amount of greenhouse gases they emit into the atmosphere. Ideally, all power plants burning coal, oil or natural gas should have such carbon-trapping devices install... |
29 May 2009
06:36 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, conducted by experts at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the coasts of the United States and Canada may actually be more in danger than previous models have predicted. The largest threat comes from the melting ice sheet of Greenland, which, if separated from... |
28 May 2009
10:43 GMT |
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