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…
Global warming getting El Niño all hot and bothered
Spawning droughts, floods, and other weather disturbances, the El Niño – Southern Oscillation affects the daily lives of millions of…
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…
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…
Global warming unstoppable?
Emissions trading schemes, zero-emission vehicles and massive carbon sequestration projects aren’t even worth bothering with, claims a controversial new study…
Global warming estimates “fundamentally wrong,” contends new study
No one knows exactly how much Earth’s climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new Rice University study…
Asian Brown Clouds Accelerating Warming
A new study of pollution-filled “brown clouds” over south Asia has found that they enhance solar heating of the lower…
Shrinking Icecap On Kilimanjaro Not Due To Global Warming
The dwindling icecap of Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro (pictured) has assumed something like iconic status for those seeking to dramatically illustrate…
Greenhouse Gases Taking The Heat For Dirty Snow
The global warming debate has until now focused almost entirely on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, but scientists…
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…
Climatologists Identify Areas To Be Most Affected By Warming
Climatologists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have been tinkering with their climate models and come up with…
Coral Reefs Set For Rapid Growth
In a research paper appearing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, Aussie scientists say that coral reefs around the world…