Tag: climate change

In case you didn't know, China has a massive problem with smog; the dark shroud has covered a large part ...

We knew that 2012 was the hottest year even before December - the average of the first 11 months was ...

Researchers from the University of Michigan and University College London have found that trees in the Amazon forest will be able to withstand even ...

I've received lots of emails from you people regarding climate change; as it turns out, some of you are mad ...

Negotiating an official climate change pact is an extremely high-stake game, not only due to the threats posed to our ...

In a significant blow to people who believe climate change predictions are just blowing hot air, an international study established ...

Data shows that CO2 emissions in 2012 hit 35.6 billion tonnes, showing a 2.6% increase since 2011, and 58% above ...

A recent report released by the UN and compiled by he Met Office and the University of East Anglia suggest the ...

Around the globe, local climates are changing. Maybe you haven't noticed it yet, because in most regions this is a slow ...

When the first major talks about global warming began, a top margin of 2 degrees was set for 2100, people ...

The entire Indian population depends on good crops to survive, and good crops depend on the monsoon; according to a ...

Some 12,900 years ago, a massive flood of melted freshwater in the Arctic caused a 1,200-year-long chill nicknamed the "Big ...

As the topic of climate change is frantically being discussed in every government office nowadays, a burst of solutions, some contradictory, ...

We are living in a period with a significant trend of global warming - not natural at all, despite what ...

According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, climate change models suggest that average global temperatures will likely rise ...

Arctic ice, a key indicator for global climate status, has reached another record low, lower than in computer estimates, hinting ...

Growing populations of hungry sea otters can become one of our powerful allies in the fight against global warming; why? ...

A raging issue at the moment, in both government bureaus and bar chats alike, is global warming. Is it just a natural ...

Before and after: Current and projected temperature extremes in the L.A. area. (c) UCLA A groundbreaking climate change study,  which ...

Researchers from the Natural History Museum in Madrid counted chinstrap penguins in Antarctica’s South Shetland Islands in 1991-1992 and again ...

NASA announced a truly unexpected phenomena, observed under the shrinking Arctic ice: a massive algae bloom under the ice. Not ...

The big money out there is invested in climate change denial, as major oil companies fight to eliminate climate protection ...

Typically, in the tundras, tree growth is hindered by very low temperatures, and usually, in the tundra, vegetation comprises of ...

Remember the Heartland Institute advertising campaign? The one climate scientists to criminals and terrorist? If you don't let's just refresh ...

Plants are flowering much, much faster than scientists predicted in response to climate change, United States research shows, which could ...

So much for reasoned debate and scientific discussions: a controversial group bent on discrediting climate science revealed several billboards that ...

Large wind farms might have a warming effect on the local climate, a research conducted in the US claims, casting ...

In the year 2011 alone, the US faced 14 extreme weather events, while Japan registered record rainfalls and the Yangtze river ...

Antarctica is home to one of harshest environments in the world, but exactly because of this it exhibit a unique ...

A recent study performed by a team of American/Chinese scientists shows that there's a direct link between the progressive shrinking ...

Bergmann’s rule states that mammals of a given genus or species are smaller in hotter climates, and bigger in colder climates. ...

For decades, classrooms were caught in a debate between creationism and evolution, and now, teachers will once again be caught ...

A while ago NASA launched its next generation weather satellite, the Suomi NPP satellite, into low-orbit, on a mission to  collect critical ...

A new independent study conducted by researchers from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, has concluded that natural ...

Antarctica is the most the arid place on Earth. Its climate is so rough, so hazardous that no permanent human populace can ...

Last week, the court appeal which sought to put the mighty Grizzly bear back on the endangered species list, and ...

Researchers lately pointed out that delaying measures against climate change will make them more expensive and less effective; however, countries ...

In 2009, a rather controversial new wing of the CIA was formed under the climate center moniker. This division was, ...

In the first study of its kind, a group of researchers have quantified the financial impact of climate-change infused natural ...

Amid all the talk about Asia's economic growth and their stable financial future, two major problem arise to cloud their ...

The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature team has concluded its study, which had the objective of analyzing global temperatures ever since ...

Global warming has significant consequences to Earth's ecosystems, each effect triggering another one in a slew of chain reactions. Frighting enough, rising ...

Record low ice volumes in the arctic caused by global warming have been reported this year, and if there are ...

Whether you like him or not, you have to admit that he has been fighting for a noble and important ...

Studying the immense 2007 Anaktuvuk River fire, which burned 401 square miles and becoming the largest tundra fire on record, ...

Global warming is not an abstract element, it's not harmless, and it doesn't apply only to polar caps; it affects ...

In a world where accusations like this fly by like pigeons in the park, it was about time someone but ...

Global warming has lowered the global yield of crops with up to 5% since 1980; not for soybeans, or tomatoes, ...

You'd expect this from the Times, and it wouldn't be so much of a surprise. But David Owen's article entitled ...

Yes, I know there's still a few days until Earth Hour comes, but I just wanted to give you guys ...