Year 2012 Breaks Record for Highest Temperatures in Most of The U.S
The U.S government climate agency reported this week that year 2012 has been 1 degree warmer than the previous record from year 1998, making...
Freshwater Ecosystems Emit More Carbon as Predators Are Removed, Study Says
Freshwater ecosystems will emit much higher amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere if the main predators are removed from the food chain, a study published today in Nature...
Technology Developed for Extracting Carbon Dioxide from Air Efficiently
Most researchers today are concerned with reducing the emission of carbon dioxide by designing more efficient engines and switching to renewable sources of energy....
Robotic Dolphins Measure Polar Melting and More
Robots the size of dolphins are measuring how fast the ice in Antartica is melting, demonstrating revolutionary ways of collecting data in remote polar...
Climate-Induced Soil Nutrient Decrease to Threaten Global Food Production, Study
Nutrients in soils are one of the most essential components that determine land productivity and consequently availability of food resources.
The balance between these components,...
New Standard in Measuring Gas Mixtures Help Scientists Understand Changing Climate
Monitoring and measuring differences in greenhouse gas concentrations across various locations around the world is the primary goal of many research teams, who try...
Climate Change – Positive Feedback Loop Starting in the Arctic
Aside from polar bears and penguins, should we be paying more attention to what is going on in the Arctic, especially in relation to...
Climate Changes Ten Times Faster Now Than Over the Past 65 Million Years
Scientists from University of Stanford published a review of climate research, as part of a report on climate change in the latest issue of Science.
Taking...
Climate Change Risky, But Can We Adapt?
The United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released, in previous years, three detailed reports analyzing the causes and effects of...
Even Oil Companies Want a Carbon Tax
In an unprecedented move six leading European oil companies, including BP and Shell have released a letter calling on the world to implement a price on...
