Tapping glaciers
China will start backing up its shrinking glaciers with 59 meltwater reservoirs this year as the cost of climate change hits home in the world's most populous nation.
China will start backing up its shrinking glaciers with 59 meltwater reservoirs this year as the cost of climate change hits home in the world's most populous nation.
The Pliocene warm interval has been difficult to explain. We reconstructed the latitudinal distribution of sea surface temperature around 4 million years ago, during the early Pliocene. Our reconstruction shows that the meridional temperature gradient between the equator and subtropics was greatly reduced, implying a vast poleward expansion of the ocean tropical warm pool.
After paring 23 climate models down to the best half-dozen, two researchers now say with new confidence that arctic summer ice will most likely disappear around 2037. But none of the select models predicts a tipping point--a sudden jump to an ice-free summer Arctic.
Global warming is more than a third to blame for a major drop in rainfall that includes a decade-long drought in Australia and a lengthy dry spell in the United States, a scientist said on Wednesday.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore will publish a follow-up to his global warming awareness bestseller "An Inconvenient Truth" on November 3. The book will be called "Our Choice" and will describe solutions to global warming, the environmental crusader and U.S. publisher Rodale Inc. said in a statement on Tuesday.
Rich countries cannot afford to start a trade war with China and other developing countries that they believe are not doing enough to fight global warming, the Netherland's top trade official said on Wednesday.
The forecast for Sydney in summer 2060 is hot, polluted and deadly to the elderly. Rising summer temperatures due to global warming, drier weather and smog from transport and bushfires will make Australia's lifestyle capital a health hazard, a scientist told a major climate change conference on Wednesday.
With the world in economic recession, there is a temptation to downgrade or sideline climate change. That would be a great mistake. The gathering of 2,000 scientists in Copenhagen in March found the climate change situation much worse than previously reported. They called on politicians to act quickly and decisively.
Aparna Jaishankar Earth hour is all about the small changes that everyone is capable of making in their lives and building those habits into everyday living. The celebration is a demonstration of humankind coming together to make a positive impact on global warming Switch off those lights on March 28
DINDIGUL: Protection of water sources, reduction of water pollution, encouraging energy efficiency and climate-friendly trends are essential to tackle climate change and global warming, said V. Irulandi, Chief Conservator of Forests. He was addressing a seminar on issues and impacts of climate change on community held at Gandhigram Rural University here on Friday.
Five countries that created a treaty nearly four decades ago to protect polar bears through controlled hunting issued a statement that called climate change "the most important long-term threat" to the bears.
The West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS), with ice volume equivalent to approx5 m of sea level, has long been considered capable of past and future catastrophic collapse. Today, the ice sheet is fringed by vulnerable floating ice shelves that buttress the fast flow of inland ice streams.
Thirty years after oxygen isotope records from microfossils deposited in ocean sediments confirmed the hypothesis that variations in the Earth's orbital geometry control the ice ages, fundamental questions remain over the response of the Antarctic ice sheets to orbital cycles.
During the past five million years, the West Antarctic ice sheet has waxed and waned in size. A two-pronged reconstruction of that history provides clues to the ice sheet's future behaviour.
George Monbiot However unlikely success might be, we can
EDWARDSPORT, Ind.: Near the middle of a dusty construction site here stands a patch of land, about the size of two football fields, notable because it is empty.
About 500,000 people move to Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh each year, mostly from coastal, riverine and rural areas.
Gujarat is the first state that has realised the implications of global warming with Chief Minister Narendra Modi floating a new ministerial portfolio for climate change. It is a portfolio that does not exist even in the Union Government yet.
But where are the flowers? HIGH temperatures have caused spring flowers to bloom earlier than usual in Uttarakhand disrupting the annual festivities. This has dismayed children in the Garhwal district the most because each year when they wake up before dawn to collect wild flowers like Rhododendron arboreum (burans), Prunus cerasoides (painya) and Rainwerdtia indica (fyunli), they
Higher temperatures will kill forests. So much for sinks Trees