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Arctic Could Face Warmer and Ice-Free Conditions
There is increased evidence that the Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions and much warmer temperatures in the future....
Overwhelming Majority of Americans Support Global Warming Action in Poll
The overwhelming majority of Americans support action to limit carbon pollution and move the U.S. toward a clean energy future, according to a new poll released today by National Wildlife Federation....
Disproportionate Effects of Global Warming and Pollution on Disadvantaged Communities
Global warming, pollution, and the environmental consequences of energy production impose a greater burden on low-income, disadvantaged communities, and strategies to prevent these inequities are urgently needed....
Climate Change Is Shifting Ecosystems
Global warming is causing climate belts to shift toward the poles and to higher elevations. To keep pace with these changes, the average ecosystem will need to shift about a quarter mile each year,...
What Green Lessons Can We Learn from COP15?
The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, known as “COP15,” faced a simple problem – how do you hold a global conference on the environment without increasing greenhouse gas emissions, wasting paper and otherwise being un-green?...
Global Temperatures Could Rise More Than Expected, New Study Shows
The kinds of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide taking place today could have a significantly larger effect on global temperatures than previously thought....
International Climate Change: Dispatches from Copenhagen
Adam Airoldi, a graduate student in forest ecology and management at Michigan Technological University, and Cate Cogger, an undergraduate in environmental anthropology, spent several days at the United Nations' international climate change conference...
Preparing the U.S. Southeast for Global Warming
A good-news global warming story about a pine tree with a storied past promises that a back-to-the-future approach will provide economic opportunities and help prepare the southeastern U.S. for a changing climate....
Climate Projections Underestimate CO2 Impact
The climate may be 30–50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously thought, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience this week....
Engineering Bacteria to Turn Carbon Dioxide into Liquid Fuel
Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume carbon dioxide and produce the liquid fuel isobutanol, which holds great potential as a gasoline alternative....
Breakthrough in Monitoring Tropical Deforestation Announced in Copenhagen
New technology, developed by a team of scientists at Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology, is revolutionizing forest monitoring by marrying free satellite imagery and powerful analytical methods in an easy-to-use, desktop software package called C...
Understanding Ocean Climate Change
High-resolution computer simulations performed by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) are helping to understand the inflow of North Atlantic water to the Arctic Ocean and how this influences ocean climate....
First Phase of Pan-Tropical Forest Mapping Debuting at COP15
Tropical forest loss accounts for an estimated 17% of global emissions of carbon dioxide. As part of a strategy to reduce these greenhouse gas fluxes to the atmosphere, the UNFCCC's Conference of the Parties 15 in Copenhagen is working to adopt a str...
Sea Level Rising Along U.S. Atlantic Coast According to Environmental Scientists
An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States was 2 millimeters faster in the 20th century than at any time in the past 4,000 years....
Fragmented Tropical Forests Store Less Biomass and Carbon Dioxide
Conserving continuous forests is important for mitigation of climate change....
Important Contribution of Waste Sector to Reduce Substantial CO2 Emissions
The International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) calls the attention of the delegates of the UN COP15 to the important contribution of the waste sector to reduce substantial CO2-emissions....
Atmospheric CO2 Mixing Ratios Over China
Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences in Beijing initiated network observation at the four Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) stations in China....
Perspectives On Up-Coming Climate Talks in Copenhagen
Two Indiana University experts offer their comments on the prospects of the climate talks Dec. 7-16 in Copenhagen, Denmark....
The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?
A new article in the December 4 issue of Science addresses how the combined efforts of government commitments and market transition could save forest and reduce carbon emissions in Brazil....
Kuwait Bay Shows Regional Climate Change Can Differ from Global Picture
Increased temperatures are having profound effects on key habitats and on power generation the Arabian Gulf....
Big Freeze Plunged Europe Into Ice Age in Months
In the film, ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within the space of just a few weeks. Now new research shows that this scenario may not be so far from the truth after all....
The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science by Dr. Thomas Valone
A new 220 page softcover book discusses the latest emerging energy technologies and mankind's history of energy and its future trends. Includes psychological and sociopolitical aspects of man's use of energy....
Cutting Greenhouse Pollutants Could Directly Save Millions of Lives Worldwide
New studies published in the Lancet show that strategies to reduce greenhouse gases also benefit human health. The Lancet series highlights case studies on four climate change topics — household energy, transportation, electricity generation, and a...
Where the Wild Things Were: How Conservation Efforts Are Failing
In the essay, “Where the Wild Things Were,” currently appearing in Foreign Affairs, Dr. Steven Sanderson, President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society, asserts the world’s political institutions have failed the planet but “realism c...
Climate Change Accelerating Beyond Expectations, Urgent Emissions Reductions Required, Say Leading Scientists
In a special report called ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’, the 26 researchers, most of whom are authors of published IPCC reports, conclude that several important aspects of climate change are occurring at the high end or even beyond the expectations...
Oceans Absorbing Carbon Dioxide More Slowly, Yale Scientist Finds
The world’s oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO2), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years....
CO2 Emissions Continue Significant Climb
The annual rate of increase in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has more than tripled in this decade, compared to the 1990s, reports an international consortium of scientists....
Is Global Warming Unstoppable?
In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions – the major cause of global warming – cannot be stabilized unless the world’s economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new n...
International Expedition Investigates Climate Change & Alternative Fuels in Arctic
A team of university and government scientists on an Arctic expedition to initiate methane hydrate exploration in the Beaufort Sea and determine the spatial variation of sediment contribution to Arctic climate change....
Mysteriously Warm Times in Antarctica
A new study of Antarctica's past climate reveals that temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages (interglacials) may have been higher than previously thought....
