Edmonton Journal: Smith and Sarah Wheeler standing by their camp in the Ruby Mountain Range of the Yukon after an early fall snow storm knocked down their camp
University of Alberta biologist Isla Myers-Smith and her colleague were taking down their research camp in the Ruby Mountain Range when a snowstorm [...]
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AAP: NEW Zealand scientists using the rings on kauri trees to look at climate patterns are tipping global warming to bring more big weather extremes in the coming years.
The Auckland University study, published in the monthly journal Nature Climate Change, identifies that growth rings from the trees in Northland provide [...]
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Associated Press: You wouldn’t know it from the Republicans, but these are boom times for American energy. And you wouldn’t know it from President Barack Obama, but he has very little to do with that. From the presidential campaign trail to Congress, Republicans have been hammering Obama for [...]
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Silent sentinels If history is anything to go by, periods of droughts and flooding rains could become more common in south-eastern Australia and New Zealand, according to a new study.
The study, which appears today in the journal Nature Climate Change suggests El Niño and La Niña weather [...]
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Daily Climate: In March 1981, pollsters tucked the first question about global climate change into a national poll, asking 1,000 adults if they had “heard or read about the ‘greenhouse effect.’”
If you’re going to have an information campaign, it’s going to have to be constant. You’re not going to convince [...]
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AllAfrica: GOVERNMENT has agreed to let 80 per cent of payments done under Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) to go to communities which protect forests.
An official from Africa Wildlife Foundation, Godlisten Matilya, told a Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation Programme meeting held in Dar es Salaam over [...]
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Mongabay: Evidence that jellyfish are taking over the oceans is currently lacking, according to a new study published in Bioscience. Complied by a number of marine experts, the study found that while jellyfish have been on the rise in some regions it is likely due to a natural cycle of [...]
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BBC: Russian scientists are racing to beat US and UK rivals and be first to drill into an Antarctic sub-glacial lake.
The team has been drilling down to Lake Vostok, the largest of more than 100 bodies of liquid water buried under Antarctica’s ice.
The lake has been sealed off from the [...]
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General Motors ignored a request from Ford Motor Co. and ran a humorous Chevrolet truck ad during the Super Bowl that takes a slap at Ford.
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Physorg: Increased flooding could release contaminants previously regarded as secure into groundwater, rivers, oceans, the food supply and atmosphere, the director of the CRC for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment, Professor Ravi Naidu said today.
“Most of our urban landfills contain highly toxic substances from past decades – and [...]
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Business Green: The EU added 9,616MW of wind energy capacity during 2011, making up more than a fifth of total new power installations, industry figures have today revealed.
Offshore growth in the UK and onshore projects in Sweden and Germany helped push member states to a combined total of 93,957MW — [...]
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Fars News Agency: The results of a study showed that climate change and dramatic shifts in sea temperatures can cause short and long term damages to the world coral reefs.
Around the world coral reefs are facing threats brought by climate change and dramatic shifts in sea temperatures. While ocean warming [...]
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Climate change gives gardeners new options
Miami Herald: If you’re planting a spring garden in the U.S. this year, you may want to set aside some extra seed money. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its plant hardiness zone map for the first time since 1990, reflecting how some crops are moving north as winter [...]
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