Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
A NASA satellite designed, built and controlled by the University of Colorado at Boulder is expected to help scientists resolve wide-ranging predictions about the coming solar cycle peak in 2012 and its influence on Earth's warming climate, according to the chief scientist on the project.Senior Research Associate Tom Woods of ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
As plant species around the world go extinct, natural habitats become less productive and contain fewer total plants -- a situation that could ultimately compromise important benefits that humans get from nature. (Credit: Michele Hogan)
An international team of scientists has published a new analysis showing that as plant species around ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Large-scale fires in a western or southeastern state can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a few weeks as the state's entire motor vehicle traffic does in a year, according to newly published research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised to discover that carbon offsets are now being traded like any other financial commodity. But it makes me uneasy.
I have been investigating what has happened to the cash I gave to the Climate Care company in August to offset the carbon emissions from ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
A novel MIT study concludes that increasing levels of ozone due to the growing use of fossil fuels will damage global vegetation, resulting in serious costs to the world's economy.
The analysis, reported in the November issue of Energy Policy, focused on how three environmental changes (increases in temperature, carbon dioxide ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Around 10 per cent of the world population of Balearic shearwaters has visited UK inshore waters this summer and autumn, with more than 1,200 birds being recorded from just one watchpoint near Land's End in Cornwall.The findings come from a new survey, led by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
A healthy seagrass meadow. Seagrasses provide habitat and forage for waterfowl, fish, and shellfish; buffering against storms; and improved water quality. (Credit: USGS)
The BBVA Foundation’s Third Debate on Conservation Biology allowed leading international experts to present findings of their latest research into the scale, causes and consequences of global loss ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
A British expedition plans to walk, and even swim, a 2000 kilometre journey to the North Pole as part of an attempt to draw up an accurate prediction of when the Arctic ice cap will disappear.
"We're not doing it for a laugh," says Pen Hadow, the British explorer leading expedition ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
The Arctic is again highlighted as being among areas most at risk. Photograph: Corbis
The effects of climate change will be felt sooner than scientists realised and the world must learn to live with the effects, experts said today.
Professor Martin Parry, a climate scientist with the Met Office, said destructive changes ...
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