A new way to fight climate change: Trap carbon dioxide in volcanic rocks
Climate change refers to the fluctuation of the climate system caused by the energy entering and leaving Earth. The greenhouse…
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…
Lightning increasing with global warming
A new analysis of climate change models predicts a 50 percent increase in lightning strikes across the United States during…
Strangely, the loss of forests may actually be cooling the planet
An intriguing study from Yale University shows that large-scale forest losses over the last 150 years – largely through the…
Mammals may shrink with warming climate
Mammal body size decreased significantly during two ancient global warming events, say paleontologists from the University of Michigan who believe…
New evidence for climate change creating modern humans
While archaeological and genetic evidence suggest that Homo sapiens originated in Africa around 200,000 years ago, it is more difficult…
Tree plumbing stress approaching tipping point
The hydraulic system of trees is so finely-tuned that predicted increases in drought due to climate change may lead to…
Wild Arabica coffee facing extinction
Scientists who have predicted the possible extinction of wild Arabica coffee (Coffea Arabica) within 70 years say urgent conservation measures…
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…
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…
Fungi make modern violin sound like a Stradivarius
Researcher Francis W. M. R. Schwarze, from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, has used fungi to…
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…
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…
Dino farts warmed early climate
Mesozoic methane emissions from dinosaurs could, according to new calculations, have produced more of the notorious greenhouse gas than all…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Win-win for sugarcane biofuel crops
Agricultural cropping typically has a significant warming effect on local climates, but a report in Nature Climate Change indicates that…
Cloud confusion vexes global warming predictions
Estimates of global warming vary widely in large part due to the difficulty of modeling clouds and their effects in…
New Arctic shipping routes will accelerate warming
As the Arctic Ocean warms and ice-packs retreat, new routes will open up which will likely prove irresistible to shipping…
Is irrigation masking our warming climate?
Irrigation has made it possible to feed the world’s population, and it may also be temporarily counteracting the effects of…
White paint touted as climate remedy
Painting the roofs of buildings white has the potential to significantly cool cities, say researchers from the National Center for…
Earth to get hotter sooner
New modeling on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth’s climate will get this century shows that without rapid…
Fires account for 20% of CO2 emissions
Fires are a significant – up to one-fifth – contributor to climate change, according to a report published in the…
CO2 behind prehistoric global cooling
Ice in Antarctica appeared suddenly (in geologic terms) about 35 million years ago, after more than 100 million years of…