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Officials at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say that this November had the 12th warmest air temperatures on record, and the third smallest sea ice extent since records began being kept. Sea ice was 11.5 percent below the normal average.
The analysis was compiled by the NOAA Climate Pr... |
16 December 2011
04:02 GMT |
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According to a recently-published study, it would appear that the entire island of Greenland rose by as much as a quarter of an inch in 2010. This happened primarily because a lot of ice on its landmass melted away, easing the pressure on the landmass itself.
A similar phenomenon is currently being observed in Anta... |
14 December 2011
03:28 GMT |
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Even though many of the representatives who participated at the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference (COP17), in Durban, South Africa, would have you believe that the agreement reached yesterday, December 11, is valid and a step forward for humanity, this couldn't be farther from the truth.
What the meeting did s... |
12 December 2011
02:52 GMT |
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Despite that diplomats seem pleased with the deal sealed last week, during the Durban summit, eco-groups and scientists warn that an international agreement is not enough to save us from the harmful effects of climate change. Nevertheless, there are still no actual pledges powerful enough to fight global warming, a... |
12 December 2011
02:43 GMT |
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It seems that genuine polar bears are far from being those cute creatures we spot in TV commercials resting on banks of ice. A recent study shows that these animals eat their cubs and climate change might be behind this rare case of cannibalism. Photojournalist Jenny E. Ross has identified a disturbing incident of t... |
9 December 2011
08:22 GMT |
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The results of a 20-year study indicate that the amount and range of shrubs and grasses has increased considerably in northern Quebec, Canada. This expansion was primarily triggered by a warming climate. The study highlights just one of the negative aspects of global warming.
Data used to arrive at these conclusion... |
9 December 2011
04:24 GMT |
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According to investigators at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, led by director and paleoclimate expert James E Hansen, this century has tremendous potential for rapid, massive climate change. This can only be avoided by curbing global warming.
Hansen, who was the first to propose carbon emission curbs ... |
9 December 2011
03:48 GMT |
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The scientist who first pointed out that global warming is a real phenomenon is now saying that the 2-degree warming target that we should strive to avoid is insufficient to prevent climate change. It is widely believed that warming needs to be kept under 2 degrees Celsius in order for the Earth to be safe.
Reaching... |
8 December 2011
08:19 GMT |
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As climate models become increasingly more complex and precise, they also become potentially more useful for predicting the strength and intensity of hurricane seasons. Focusing on such small-scale events is however very difficult with appropriate tools. And these tools are now being developed.
“We’re ... |
7 December 2011
10:26 GMT |
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A new study funded by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science shows that droughts such as the one currently affecting Texas and Oklahoma will become the norm over the next 40-50 years, and will not appear as out of the ordinary as they do today.
Statistically, the current drought is the worst to... |
6 December 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Climate change will trigger long-term damaging effects, different for every region, according to a recent study issued by the Met Office’s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. The organization tried to forecast how 24 would be affected by global warming by 2100, unless governments find appropriate... |
6 December 2011
11:06 GMT |
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In 2013 and 2014, three locations above the Pacific Ocean will receive the visit of the NASA Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX). The multi-year science mission's goal is to analyze the chemical composition of the air currently making its way into the tropopause.
Other factors, such as humidity, w... |
6 December 2011
05:10 GMT |
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In a paper published in the December 4 issue of the top scientific journal Nature Climate Change, experts with the Global Carbon Project (GCP) say that carbon emissions are continuing to increase around the world, threatening to warm the planet by more than 2 degrees Celsius.
This scenario is to be avoided at all c... |
5 December 2011
06:36 GMT |
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Scientists say that under-assessment of the risks involved in thawing of perennially-frozen soils called permafrost has led to a distorted view of the amount of methane they could release in the atmosphere. These quantities have largely been underestimated, the team behind the new study believes.
In a paper publishe... |
5 December 2011
02:50 GMT |
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Teaching people about climate change through lectures will never work. Pablo Suarez has tested this method and seen people falling asleep in their chairs. After he threw Frisbees to the bored public gathered for a conference in Ecuador, he realized fighting climate change needs a new kind of boost to become popular. ... |
2 December 2011
05:33 GMT |
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Dirty coal business is still in the game mostly because it's profitable. Banks know it best, since they invest billions of dollars every year in this field of activity. A recent reports reveals that JP Morgan Chase is, by far, the most influent player, backing the coal industry with no less than $22 billion (&eu... |
2 December 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Yesterday, December 1, saw the release of this year's Arctic Report Card (ARC), which is being developed annually by researchers around the world. The document indicates the North Pole to be entering a warmer period, with changed climate and ice patterns.
The main conclusion is that the Arctic will from now on... |
2 December 2011
02:44 GMT |
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Santa Claus is expected by millions of children all across the Globe every year. What they do not know is that he might go out of business or be forced to relocate his toy factory, because of global warming, a phenomenon responsible for radical changes already visible especially in the North Pole region.
Scientists... |
30 November 2011
09:31 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) recently studied the performances of a new type of laser technology in the Spanish Canary Islands. The study involved firing pulses of green light between two of the islands in the archipelago, and was ultimately determined to be a huge success.
The laser technology is being develope... |
30 November 2011
02:52 GMT |
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At this point in time, the Durban summit is definitely one of the hottest green topics. It manages to capture the attention of shipowners who collaborate with WWF and Oxfam to indicate the best methods of curbing greenhouse gas emissions coming from international shipping.The partners hope to convince the COP 17 par... |
29 November 2011
11:04 GMT |
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The Durban summit is expected to provide an effective framework meant to cope with the continuously growing food prices. Experts and organizations put all their hopes in negotiations on climate change, since the lives of people living in poor countries depend on the impact of strict regulations. Oxfam affirms that ... |
29 November 2011
07:01 GMT |
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Scientists with the University of British Columbia (UBC), in Canada, say that marine biodiversity loss will occur at a much faster rate than originally calculated. The main factors that contribute to this phenomenon are global warming – and the climate change it produces – and increased predation.
The l... |
29 November 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Pope Benedict XVI encourages a “responsible” agreement as a result of the Climate Summit in Durban, South Africa. While representatives from all parts of the Globe will try to find appropriate ways of curbing the alarming amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the Pope hopes to witness effective ch... |
28 November 2011
05:54 GMT |
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Global warming will definitely raise temperatures around the world, but that does not mean that there will be no more cold months during the winter. In fact, it is entirely possible to have extremely cold months in certain years, due to the changing environment.
University of Helsinki climate scientist Jouni Rä... |
24 November 2011
10:14 GMT |
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Environmental experts are focusing their attention on effective means of defending their work and privacy, after an unknown hacker succeeded in breaking into 5,000 personal emails exchanged between leading experts. They say this initiative might have a significant impact upon the public opinion, as it tries to unde... |
24 November 2011
04:28 GMT |
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Experts rely on numerical indicators to reveal the most important environmental changes recorded since 1992. They bring into discussion the role of 7 billion people in accelerating the climate change process by 2°C of warming, while putting in danger 13 million hectares of land every year.
These numbers reflect ... |
23 November 2011
09:51 GMT |
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The fact that we must stop global warming is visible to everyone who is even marginally sane, but action to remedy the effects we are having on the planet still continues to be avoided. Now, a group of researchers show precisely the course we need to take in order to avoid disaster. The global warming that drives cli... |
21 November 2011
11:00 GMT |
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When they first started drawing public attention on the potential effects of climate change, researchers also pointed out peatlands as an important source of carbon dioxide. A new study demonstrates that those early estimates of how much CO2 peat puts in the air were off by a wide margin.
It would now appear that th... |
21 November 2011
09:00 GMT |
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University of British Columbia releases a new study that presents global warming as a major threat for the already weak fish population, implying further losses for major fisheries. Unless authorities implement stricter regulations to overcome the effects of this phenomenon, the economical viability of such operati... |
21 November 2011
05:33 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new study by experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), it would appear that the end-Permian extinction event – which occurred about 252.2 million years ago – happened a lot faster than originally established.
Currently known informally as the “G... |
19 November 2011
04:32 GMT |
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O2, one of the leading mobile companies in the UK, wants to announce its supremacy in the field of recycling operations. The company now boasts a Guinness World title for its eco-friendly campaign which relies on the support of thousands of buyers, eager to recycle the phones they no longer need. The main goal was... |
17 November 2011
04:19 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that short-term climate variations are going astray over as much as a third of Earth. These changes affect factors such as cloud cover and rainfall, as well as the amount of sunshine a certain region receives.
Usually, these differences maintai... |
16 November 2011
02:24 GMT |
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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) just released its latest Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI) report, and the document does not bring about good news. It shows that carbon dioxide concentrations around the world are increasing. This upward trend has been going on since the 1880s, which i... |
10 November 2011
06:50 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States recently carried out a new study on how microbes in permanently-frozen soils, called permafrost, react to a warming world. This is important because permafrost retains vast amounts of greenhouse gases.
Spanning from the North Pole to the Arctic Ocean, these soils ... |
9 November 2011
06:08 GMT |
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A new study funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) uncovered that methane stored in the world's oceans may have been responsible for a drastic period of climate change and global warming that occurred more than 56 million years ago.
Researchers have been trying to figure out the most likely sou... |
9 November 2011
04:39 GMT |
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Experts from the United Nations Development Program revealed a new study which states the fact that climate change can put the economical development of countries on hold or even make the numbers decrease, unless realistic measures of fighting this phenomenon will be implemented throughout the next four decades.
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8 November 2011
06:48 GMT |
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Birds are generally known as creatures with smaller body dimensions. This assumption could no longer be valid, as scientists warn us that global warming will change the way we feel about them taking into consideration that the phenomenon apparently makes birds bigger and fatter.Researchers who analyzed several specie... |
7 November 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Officials at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) have just released their latest report on the state of ice at and around the North Pole. The newest readings indicate that ices formed at a fast pace throughout October, after reaching the second-lowest extent on record in September.
According to the tea... |
3 November 2011
04:59 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and a number of universities has recently completed a new study of how global warming and climate change will affect the interconnected San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (the Bay-Delta system).
The research was meant to model w... |
3 November 2011
03:59 GMT |
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The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney George Pell delivered a controversial speech in London, where he expressed his doubts regarding the real potential of the measures proposed or adopted in order to fight global warming.
After delivering his speech at Westminster Cathedral Hall, Cardinal Pell highlighted the fact tha... |
2 November 2011
03:52 GMT |
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Thomas Wernberg of the University of Western Australia reached the conclusion that seaweed are threatened by climate change. In his opinion, throughout the last decades the “trees of the ocean” that provide food to the entire ocean wildlife tried to adapt to the global warming phenomenon. It seems to be m... |
29 October 2011
06:56 GMT |
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Deep-water circulation apparently influenced the surface temperatures of the Atlantic Ocean by a great margin during the late Cretaceous Period, a team of investigators from the University of Missouri found. The discovery could be used to determine the effects of global warming on the planet.
Understanding how elev... |
28 October 2011
09:48 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) announce the discovery of a direct link between human-induced global warming and the frequency of droughts affecting the Mediterranean Basin.
The research team, which is based in Boulde... |
28 October 2011
03:29 GMT |
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One of the most alarming trends researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found in a new study is that the general public is becoming increasingly skeptical that global warming exists, even as the scientific community is becoming increasingly certain of its reality.
Among scientists, issues rai... |
27 October 2011
04:39 GMT |
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A group of federal agencies in the United States, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), has recently awarded a total of $38 million for studying how climate variability and change will affect different areas of the world within the next decade.
The purpose of the overall endeavor is to get a clear picture... |
27 October 2011
04:21 GMT |
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Investigators from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have determined in a new research that the concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere is only weakly correlated to the size of floods affecting North America.
The team is however keen to point out that these results do not exclude f... |
25 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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The public is apparently more aware of the existence of geoengineering than earlier surveys have shown. More and more people are beginning to enter the debate as to whether we should apply this set of techniques to protect the world against the effects of global warming.In short, geoengineering is a field of science ... |
24 October 2011
04:34 GMT |
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In 2009, CIA started taking care of the environment. Or at least, this seems to be the idea they wanted to feed the public opinion with, after they showcased The Center on Climate Change and National Security. The newly-born project had the specific goal of handling environmental key-issues such as climate change eff... |
24 October 2011
03:16 GMT |
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Scientists reached the conclusion that they have underestimated the woodland's ability of fighting global warming. Nowadays, politicians seem to correlate the creation of new jobs with a higher level of pollution. This is bad news for environmental organizations, but it seems that they might have a reason to get... |
22 October 2011
06:00 GMT |
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The results of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study – a major research initiative conducted to confirm or infirm global warming – finds that the phenomenon is indeed real. The paper shows that average temperatures around the world increased by 1 degree Celsius since the mid-1950s.
In order to be ... |
21 October 2011
06:58 GMT |
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