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Tag: Climate News Network
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
A warming climate means ever more rapid changes in the Earth’s climatic zones, researchers say, and a heightened extinction risk for species that inhabit them.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Changes in the world’s vegetation over the last 30 years—including the destruction of rain forests—have been caused more by climate change than direct human activity, researchers say.
Posted on Apr 18, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
As growing carbon dioxide emissions continue to warm the climate, more aircraft are likely to encounter turbulence in flight, meaning bumpier and perhaps longer journeys for passengers.
Posted on Apr 12, 2013
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
Critics of renewable energy have always claimed that sun and wind are only intermittent producers and that back-up fossil fuel plants are needed to make them viable. But German engineers have proven otherwise.
Posted on Apr 4, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Australia’s recent bought of fierce and frequent floods, fires and droughts is likely only to intensify, a report says, unless the world moves fast to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.
Posted on Apr 3, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
The amount of ice in the Antarctic is increasing as the other end of the world melts apace, scientists say—a strange consequence of global warming.
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
The Group of Least Developed Countries, a key partner in the long-running United Nations climate talks, is willing to agree to the industrialized world’s core demand on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Posted on Mar 30, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Researchers say they have found a clear link between climate change and the spread of diarrhea and similar diseases in one African country. But the nature of the link may be unexpected.
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
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By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network —
Drone attacks, deadly bombings, tensions with neighboring India, power and food shortages and political instability ahead of May elections all threaten Pakistan, and soon climate change will too.
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Supporters of geo-engineering are disappointed to learn that an Icelandic volcano that threw iron into the nearby ocean did little to reduce long-term atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
With temperatures predicted to rise by at least 2°C this century, storms like the one that drowned New Orleans in 2005 could occur in the Atlantic once every two years.
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
Japan has succeeded in pioneering the exploitation of vast reserves of undersea methane. It could be good news for a resource-hungry country and bad for an overheating planet.
Posted on Mar 16, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
The world’s rainforests may be able to weather the assaults of climate change more robustly than scientists had earlier thought, says a new study.
Posted on Mar 15, 2013
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Tobias Mandt (CC BY 2.0)
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
News that carbon dioxide levels rose sharply last year confirm that climate change will soon be impossible to stop.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Arctic vegetation is now growing nearly 500 miles closer to the North Pole than it was a few decades ago, indicating that the region is warming fast.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network —
Even if humanity can solve the technical riddles involved in trying to geo-engineer the planet away from dangerous climate change, many legal and ethical questions will still need answers.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
The Earth would be in a cooling phase if it were not for the effect of rising quantities of atmospheric carbon dioxide, say scientists who have reconstructed the climate of the last 11,000 years.
Posted on Mar 9, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Many of the Canadian far north’s glaciers are likely to melt by the end of the century, making significant and irreversible sea-level rise inevitable.
Posted on Mar 8, 2013
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Jeffrey Beall (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Scientists say increased coal-burning, especially in developing countries, is largely responsible for a sharp increase in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide.
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
In less than 50 years from now, the north-west passage through the Arctic should be open to suitable vessels for a short time every other year, scientists have calculated.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
There may be limits to how far society can rely on wind power to replace fossil fuels, scientists say—limits imposed by the effect of numbers of turbines sited close together.
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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NASA Goddard Photo and Video (CC BY 2.0)
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Scientists say they have discovered the particular mechanism by which extreme weather has occurred in the northern hemisphere in recent years.
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
A U.N. scheme to guarantee everyone access to clean energy could help keep global temperature rise below 2°C, but only with sharp cuts in emissions of all the main greenhouse gases.
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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Jesse Gardner (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Research shows some parts of the world are likely to get higher sea levels than others this century, particularly along the Pacific Ocean.
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
The European Parliament’s Environment Committee is supporting a plan to prop the price of a tonne of carbon by withdrawing an oversupply of credits from the market.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Researchers say the Arctic sheet is not only shrinking in area, but also losing much of its volume by thinning.
Posted on Feb 16, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
The melting of Arctic ice frozen for many thousands or even millions of years is speeding up a potential route for carbon frozen deep below ground level to seep into the atmosphere.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
The European countries currently struggling most economically—Greece, Spain and Portugal—will fare worst under climate change as they lose both harvests and tourists to rising heat and low summer rainfall, the European Environment Agency says.
Posted on Feb 1, 2013
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Charles Cook (CC BY 2.0)
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
Australia could rely on renewable energy for all its needs, according to new research—if it could just find the political will to make the change.
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Global temperatures may not warm as much over the next few years as scientists had expected. But what happens to the atmosphere this decade is a poor guide to the Earth’s longer-term future.
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
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