News articles tagged with 'anthropogenic'
New interpretation of Antarctic ice cores
— 3 Mar 2011 14:38 | EnvironmentClimate researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association (AWI) expand a prevalent theory regarding the development of ice ages.…
New carbon dioxide emissions model
— 3 Aug 2010 13:18 | EnvironmentThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) calculated projected temperature changes for various scenarios in 2007 and researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology…
Scientific expertise lacking among 'doubters' of climate change
— 26 Jun 2010 13:55 | EnvironmentThe small number of scientists who are unconvinced that human beings have contributed significantly to climate change have far less expertise and prominence in climate research compared…
Oceans' uptake of manmade carbon may be slowing
— 21 Nov 2009 12:10 | EnvironmentThe oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism…
Particles containing lead affect the climate by promoting ice formation in clouds
— 13 May 2009 00:12 | EnvironmentLead pollution in the air stimulates the formation of ice particles in clouds. A team of scientists from the USA, Germany and Switzerland has found that particles containing lead are…
Nile Delta fishery grows dramatically thanks to run-off of sewage, fertilisers
— 22 Jan 2009 15:48 | EnvironmentWhile many of the world's fisheries are in serious decline, the coastal Mediterranean fishery off the Nile Delta has expanded dramatically since the 1980s…
Ocean currents are surprisingly resistant to intensifying winds
— 24 Nov 2008 19:22 | EnvironmentThe Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the current system with the largest volume transport in the world ocean. Between 40 and 60 S strong westerlies move about 140 million cubic metres…
A third of the nitrogen entering the oceans is man-made
— 15 May 2008 18:00 | EnvironmentAs much as a third of the nitrogen entering the world's oceans from the atmosphere is man-made, according to new findings by an international team of scientists. This has significant…
Environmental researchers propose radical human-centric map of the world
— 27 Nov 2007 06:03 | EnvironmentEcologists pay too much attention to increasingly rare 'pristine' ecosystems while ignoring the overwhelming influence of humans on the environment, say researchers from McGill University…
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