News articles tagged with 'warming'
Warmer means windier on world's biggest lake
— 16 Nov 2009 11:25 | EnvironmentRising water temperatures are kicking up more powerful winds on Lake Superior, with consequences for currents, biological cycles, pollution and more on the world's largest lake and... — full story
Record highs far outpace record lows across US
— 13 Nov 2009 14:34 | EnvironmentSpurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows... — full story
Reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow climate change
— 11 Nov 2009 13:03 | EnvironmentGeorgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone publishes a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests policymakers need to address... — full story
Cave study links climate change to California droughts
— 11 Nov 2009 12:23 | EnvironmentCalifornia experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to a new study by UC Davis doctoral student... — full story
Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate
— 8 Nov 2009 11:53 | EnvironmentThe seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the... — full story
Climate variability impacts the deep sea
— 3 Nov 2009 10:56 | EnvironmentDeep-sea ecosystems occupying 60% of the Earth's surface could be vulnerable to the effects of global warming warn scientists writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... — full story
Green is cool, but US land changes generally are not
— 3 Nov 2009 09:58 | EnvironmentMost land use changes occurring in the continental U.S result in raised regional surface temperatures, says a new study by scientists at the University of Maryland, Purdue University... — full story
Global warming cycles threaten endangered primate species
— 28 Oct 2009 13:00 | EnvironmentTwo Penn State University researchers have carried out one of the first-ever analyses of the effects of global warming on endangered primates. This innovative work by Graduate Student... — full story
Arctic sediments show that 20th century warming is unlike natural variation
— 26 Oct 2009 16:50 | EnvironmentThe possibility that climate change might simply be a natural variation like others that have occurred throughout geologic time is dimming, according to evidence in a Proceedings of... — full story
Treaty to limit CO2 should be followed by similar limits on other greenhouse pollutants
— 26 Oct 2009 16:38 | EnvironmentWhen world leaders meet in Copenhagen in December to hash out a treaty limiting carbon dioxide emissions, they should begin planning a future summit to address other pollutants - from... — full story