Climate-Driven Local Extinction Threatens Earth’s Oldest Trees
Bristlecone pine trees, the Earth’s oldest trees, can live beyond 5,000 years, while limber pine trees can live not more than 2,000 years.
The growth...
Reducing Climate Change Using Geo-engineering Technology
This week, at the MIT Technology Review’s annual EmTech conference, Professor David Keith said that the only way to reduce the risk of climate...
Climate Engineering Gives Hope for Coral Reefs
A team of researchers from around the world warn that the only way to save coral reefs is to use climate engineering.
Coral reefs could...
New Method Reveals How Greenland’s Ice Sheet Works
Scientists from University of Montana and University of Wyoming applied a unique sampling method to collect data from deep into the ice core of...
Sea Level Rise Accelerating Due to Climate Change
While it has been long known that climate change is effecting sea level rise, it seems that the measurements haven’t been quite accurate over...
In Brazil, Climate Change Mitigation Will Help Economy
The Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff pledged to hit specific emissions targets to the United Nations.
Brazil is seventh on the list of the list of...
Methane-Eating Anaerobic Bacteria Discovered by Scientists
It has long been known that there are vast deposits of methane under the sea floor, generated by the decay of animal and plant...
Catastrophic Sea Level Rise Predicted by 2100
A specially-selected panel of 26 scientific experts is warning that by the end of the century, nearly 200 million people may be forced to...
A Positive Look on Climate Change
With all that is happening around us- droughts, floods, hurricanes, food and water scarcity, it is quite difficult to be positive about climate change.
But,...
Do You Know How Much Carbon Can Forests Sequester?
The importance of trees in controlling the global carbon cycle is very often neglected. We keep hearing about extensive deforestation projects, forest fires and...
