Chinese tree planting reverses global forest loss
Although massive vegetation loss is still occurring in Asia and South America, an analysis of 20 years of satellite data…
Unclouding the behavior of clouds
How air pollution creates larger and longer lasting storm clouds has been a topic of intense debate in climatology circles.…
Crop pests relentless in their march polewards
A new study has revealed that our warming climate is pushing crop pests such as fungi, bacteria, viruses, insects, and…
Lots more habitable planets out there, thanks to clouds
‘ An intriguing new study that calculates the influence of cloud behavior on climate doubles the number of potentially habitable…
Early Triassic ocean temp reached 40°C
The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred around 250 million years ago in the pre-dinosaur era, is believed to have wiped…
Study finds alarming changes in rainfall patterns
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes alarming changes in rainfall patterns which the…
New evidence for hot climate forcing early humans to walk upright
The Turkana Basin in Kenya, where the average daily temperature has been around 100 degrees for the past 4 million…
Cold weather and prostate cancer: what’s the connection?
Cold, dry weather has been linked to an increased incidence of prostate cancer and researchers believe that the way in…
Ozone hole closure not so cool
Using a new global aerosol model and two decades of meteorological data, University of Leeds climatologists have discovered a feedback…
Carbon impacts get major revision
The climate may be up to 50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously…
Honey, I shrunk the earthworm
The ancient relatives of modern dung beetles and earthworms were reduced in size by as much as 50 percent during…
Change in monsoon patterns likely
An abrupt change in climate in the past was associated with a shift of seasonal monsoons to the south, causing…
Did human-induced climate change begin thousands of years ago?
Climate change dogma posits that the invention of the steam engine and the advent of the coal-fueled industrial age marked…
New DOE program aims to predict abrupt climate change
The U.S. Department of Energy has just announced the launch of IMPACTS – Investigation of the Magnitudes and Probabilities of…
Arctic Heatwave Sends Climatologists Back To Drawing Board
Unprecedented warm temperatures in the arctic this summer were so extreme that researchers have begun revising their climate forecasts. “Everything…
Chill Out To Evolve
Species don’t evolve faster in warmer climes as had been thought; rather, it appears to be cooler, more temperate, regions…
Tundra In Retreat
Trees and shrubs in parts of northern Canada are taking over what were once tundra landscapes at a much faster…
Greenhouse Thermostat Kept Young Earth Balmy
Scientists have for years theorized that high concentrations of greenhouse gases could have helped Earth avoid global freezing in its…
The Incredible Shrinking Arctic
NASA researchers have released worrying data concerning the rapidly diminishing sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. According to their figures,…
Alpine Glaciers: Going, Going, Gone!
European Alpine glacial cover will decrease by 80 percent if summer temperatures increase by 5 degrees Fahrenheit, say scientists from…
Equatorial Glaciers Set To Disappear In 20 Years
The equatorial icecaps in the Rwenzori Mountains, East Africa, will disappear within twenty years because of global warming, a University…
Climate Change Tackled With Constructal Theory
Researchers believe that constructal theory – a physics principle that describes design in nature – could provide a new approach…
Grim Future For Global Water Resources
Two new studies in Nature predict major disruptions to the world’s supplies of fresh water. While some areas will become…
Winter Ain’t What it Used To Be
New England residents may dread the severe winters that the region often suffers, but they might be surprised to learn…
New Climate Studies Predict Dire Future
Two new studies released this week paint a gloomy picture of a planet changed beyond recognition by the impact of…
Rate of Climate Change Increasing
The finding last week from NASA that summertime Arctic sea ice was declining at such a rate that it may…
Methane’s Effect On Climate Change May Be Twice Previous Estimates
Establishing a suitable model of how the Earth’s climate systems work is a necessary step in determining how much man…
Climate Change And Vegetation A Complex Feedback
Climatologist Noah S. Diffenbaugh from Purdue University says he has found that events such as storms and heat waves can…