Nature

Birding Fair devoted to conservation of urban lakes

The 16th Birding Fair, starting at the scenic Man Sagar lake here this Friday, will be devoted to conservation of urban lakes which are getting extinct at an alarming rate because of lack of priority and inadequate administrative control in most of the cities. Ironically lakes are dying out at …

How best to log local temperatures?

The climate community must work together to create a single, clean, comprehensive and open repository of detailed temperature data, say Peter A. Stott and Peter W. Thorne.

China drought highlights future climate threats

Yunnan's worst drought for many years has been exacerbated by destruction of forest cover and a history of poor water management.

Mountains without erosion

Increased erosion associated with the rise of the world's great mountain ranges has been held to be the cause of a prolonged episode of past climate cooling. That connection is now brought into doubt.

Green patents corralled

Driven by efforts to curb fossil-fuel use and concerns about the security of energy supplies, the number of applications for renewable-energy patents is booming. But the patents are scattered across many databases, in different formats that are not readily searchable, leading to a lack of clarity over who owns specific …

Greenhouse-gas numbers up in the air

To control emissions, countries must first account accurately for their carbon. That will take considerable effort, reports Jeff Tollefson.

Up in the air

Ways to obtain more accurate data can and should be put in place to police greenhouse-gas emissions. (Editorial)

Anthropogenic carbon dioxide transport in the Southern Ocean driven by Ekman flow

The Southern Ocean is potentially a substantial sink of anthropogenic carbon dioxide; however, the regulation of this carbon sink by the wind-driven Ekman flow, mesoscale eddies and their interaction is under debate. Here, a high-resolution ocean circulation and carbon cycle model is used to study intra-annual variability in anthropogenic carbon …

The energy storage problem

Renewable energy is not a viable option unless energy can be stored on a large scale. David Lindley looks at five ways to do that.

Floods linked to San Andreas quakes

Geophysicists have linked historical earth-quakes on the southern section of California

Assessment of urbanization effects in time series of surface air temperature over land

Records of hemispheric average temperatures from land regions for the past 100 years provide crucial input to the debate over global warming. Despite careful use of the basic station data in some of these compilations of hemispheric temperature, there have been suggestions that a proportion of the 0.5

23rd International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution 01-03 June 2015, Spain

The conferences in this series have discussed and considered many important air pollution issues and the international nature of the attendees has ensured that the conference findings and conclusions enjoy a wide and rapid dissemination amongst the air pollution science and policy communities. Air pollution issues remain one of the …

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