Sea-level rise predictions may be missing critical factors
Sea levels are rising faster than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted and new work presented at a…
Food security emerging as major climate change issue
A new report looking into how climate change will affect food production and food security warns that nothing less than…
Arctic ice shrinks, Antarctic grows
While the dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice cover over the last three decades has been well documented, NASA climatologists…
Smaller fish on the menu as oceans warm
Warmer and less-oxygenated waters could see many fish species reduce in size by up to 20 percent over the next…
Forests set to return to Canada’s extreme north
University of Montreal scientists studying the fossilized remains of an ancient forest inside the Arctic circle think that our warming…
Psychopaths revealed via smell test
Psychopathic tendencies appear to be associated with an impaired sense of smell, say Australian scientists who believe inefficient processing in…
Climatologists estimate extreme rainfall events in tropics
Thunderstorm complexes, flood-inducing monsoonsand wide-sweeping cyclones will all become more likely in the tropics; suggest MIT projections that show 10…
South American glacial thinning sharply accelerates
Thinning of the largest icefields in the southern hemisphere (excluding Antarctica) has accelerated sharply, with a new study showing Patagonian…
Biodiversity backflip on warming climate
The notion that the planet’s warming climate will result in widespread extinctions has been challenged by a new study that…
Urbanization wild-card in warming estimates
Scientists studying the impact of urban expansion on climate have found that average summertime temperatures in one US area could…
Marijuana farms impacting fragile ecosystems
Poisons used on illegal marijuana farms appear to be sickening and killing the fisher (pictured), a rare forest carnivore that…
Kitchens worse than city centers for pollutants
Examining indoor pollutant levels from gas and electric cookers, University of Sheffield (UK) researchers found that gas kitchens had pollutant…
Scientists tip 2025 for possible planetary collapse
Based on an evaluation of more than 1,000 previous studies, a new meta-review by an international group of 18 scientists…
Science literacy of dubious value in climate change assessment
Is there disagreement over climate change because some people lack science literacy and numeracy? If the public knew more basic…
Carbon emission levels from deforestation challenged
When trees are felled to create solid wood products – such as lumber for housing – the wood retains most…
Bowerbirds gardening for pleasure
Scientists say they have uncovered the first evidence of a non-human species cultivating plants for use other than as food.…
Climate change treaties wrongheaded, argues radical plan to lock-up fossil fuels
An intriguing analysis of fossil fuel trading and environmental policy shows that rather than attempting to limit consumption via pollution…
Arctic warming causing increased snowfalls?
New evidence put forward by Georgia Institute of Technology atmospheric scientists links increasingly heavy snowfalls in the Northern Hemisphere to…
Missing tree rings invalidate climate reconstructions
Penn State researchers have called into question the common practice of using tree rings to reconstruct past climate events, showing…
Rising CO2 levels creating crazy fish
Rising oceanic carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are disrupting a key brain receptor in fish, causing dramatic changes in their brain…
Freight trains a clear winner over trucks in CO2 emission stakes
A University of Wisconsin-Madison analysis of the emissions generated from shipping freight via truck or by train shows that shipping…
Warming climate supercharging parasite lifecycle
Schistocephalus solidus, a parasitic worm that infects fish, has been found to grow much more rapidly at higher temperatures, alarming…
Shrinking critters could derail planet’s ecosystems
Previous research into dwarfism in soil dwelling organisms found that the ancient relatives of modern dung beetles and earthworms were…
El Niño climate cycle triggering wars
Researchers from Columbia University’s Earth Institute say that El Niño, the periodic climate cycle that boosts temperatures and cuts rainfall,…
Climate change studies vexed by Vesta
Paleoclimate studies, where scientists look into the past to try and understand changes in Earth’s climate, may be a waste…
“Profound” plant water cycle changes add new wildcard to climate change guesstimates
Botanists from Indiana University (IU) and Utrecht University (Netherlands) have discovered that rising carbon dioxide levels over the last 150…
CO2 “inertia” makes significant climatic disruption inevitable
The first full climate simulation to make predictions out to the year 3000 indicates that even if zero CO2emissions were…