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26/4/2013
THE world's coldest capital might seem an unlikely spot for a geoengineering experiment designed to cool things down. But even though the average year-round temperature in Mongolia's capital, Ulan Bator, is close to freezing, the city has to ...
6/4/2013
Greenland's 2012 summer ice melt was the largest on record. Ice specialist Marco Tedesco visits Greenland every year, and, tired of trying to convey the science of the melting ice with graphs and statistics, he found someone who could turn his ...
28/3/2013
Tackling hunger is not only a question of producing more food in rural areas, but requires looking at why poor urban populations struggle to eat enough - a problem aggravated by
climate change, a report from the International Institute for ...
28/3/2013
The International Monetary Fund has urged nations to slash their $US1.9 trillion ($1.8 trillion) in annual energy subsidies because they increase inequality, boost greenhouse gas emissions and limit investment in the renewable energy ...
21/3/2013
Campaigners are urging a halt to the building of coal plants and an end to the burning of coal throughout the European Union by 2040.
They say this is needed both to ensure better public health, and to help to lessen the damage from ...
19/3/2013
To start, please forgive an American pressing an audience of Brits about
climate change, as your country at least has
climate goals, while half our Congress still won't even accept that humans are heating the planet. Of course, you sent us ...
11/2/2013
Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam are among the six countries whose bird species will suffer, in the future, from the effects of
climate change, according to a research conducted by two British scientist institutions.
Laos, Cambodia and ...
10/2/2013
When the heavy rainfall came last month, floodwaters poured into Magdalena Lweno's house and washed away her hard-won belongings: her mattresses, couches, television set, clothing and her daughter's school books.
Worst of all, it took ...
8/2/2013
Climate change will likely add to the final snowfall totals from the monster winter storm lashing the Northeast by 5 to 10 percent, according to a leading expert on
climate change at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Kevin ...
7/2/2013
University of Illinois Stephen Long The world’s demand for food is expected to rise 70 percent by 2050. Much of this demand will have to be met by boosting the supply of staple crops such as rice, maize and wheat, which provide about 60 percent ...
28/1/2013
A bold new paper in Science argues that the world's species could be named and described before they vanish into extinction, though the threat of eventual extinction will remain for many, especially as
climate change worsens. The scientists say ...
11/1/2013
Industrial and political leaders in coal-dominated West Virginia generally shrug off global warming, or even call it imaginary. They won't admit that greenhouse fumes from coal-burning are heating the planet. So they'll probably stay silent about ...
11/1/2013
The impacts of
climate change driven by human activity are spreading through the United States faster than had been predicted, increasingly threatening infrastructure, water supplies, crops and shorelines, according to a federal advisory ...
24/12/2012
As this wild year comes to an end, we return to the season of gifts. Here’s the gift you’re not going to get soon: any conventional version of Paradise. You know, the place where nothing much happens and nothing is demanded of you. The gifts ...
14/12/2012
By Daniel YawitzFollow @dyawitzAnother week of below-average precipitation across the lower 48 states has brought little relief to drought-stricken areas, making it increasingly unlikely that long-suffering regions will see the ...
3/12/2012
South Asia will be among the regions hardest hit by
climate change. Higher temperatures, more extreme weather, rising sea levels, increasing cyclonic activity in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea, as well as floods in the region’s complex ...
30/11/2012
This is a very difficult article to write.We have just suffered through one of the worst storms in the history of the state. More than 8.5 million people were without power, and even more important, thousands of homes and business were ...
20/11/2012
Trenberth slams new Nature article on drought: "The conclusions of the paper are likely wrong."
A flawed new article in Nature has a title that sums up its controversial conclusion, “Little
change in global drought over the past 60 ...
20/11/2012
Much within Amy Luers' recent Daily
Climate essay on extreme weather and the
climate crisis is to be commended. Indeed, cutting emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) today won't eliminate a
climate change-induced pattern favoring more severe storms ...
19/11/2012
A new report by the World Bank paints a bleak picture of life on Earth in 80 years: global temperatures have risen by 4 degrees Celsius spurring rapidly rising sea levels and devastating droughts. Global agriculture is under constant threat; ...
15/10/2012
A project sponsored by a controversial U.S. businessman dumped about 100 tons of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean this summer, an experiment in geoengineering that environmental groups say violated international agreements, The Guardian has ...
22/8/2012
Recently, city leaders have started to consider strategies for coping with the coming effects of
climate change in Massachusetts. With the average annual temperature already on the rise - up 1.5 degrees over the past 100 years - Greater Boston ...
25/7/2012
From the air above the town of Puno, the Peruvian Altiplano appears an endless plain where only clumps of ichu grass withstand the harshness of the sun and lack of water.
But looks deceive: these parched lands in the country's southeast, ...
31/5/2012
Paving a highway across South America is providing lessons on the impact of road construction elsewhere.
That's what a University of Florida researcher and his international colleagues have determined from analyzing communities along the ...
12/3/2012
First chuffs from the Durban
climate train Snow in Baghdad, and other ancient
climates Confessions of a
climate gate-opener Airlines and tar sands proxy for bigger
climate battles
For anyone still persuaded that the phrase "sustainable ...