Fjords Act as Major Carbon Sinks, Study Says
Fjords, such as those in Norway, don't just make for beautiful landscapes but also act as major carbon sinks that likely play an important role in regulating the planet's climate, a new study says.
Fjords, such as those in Norway, don't just make for beautiful landscapes but also act as major carbon sinks that likely play an important role in regulating the planet's climate, a new study says.
Researchers with the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) now say the effect of global warming has become more pronounced in the country over the last 10 years. Besides an average rise of 0.4-0.5 degrees
Australia's premier scientific institution has urged the Abbott government to embrace an acceleration in cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, with an ultimate eye to reducing national carbon pollution to
It’s known as “single study syndrome”. When a new scientific paper is published suggesting that the climate is relatively insensitive to the increased greenhouse effect, potentially modestly downgrading
Record-breaking hot years in England have become at least 13 times more likely because of manmade climate change, scientists have discovered. The new study suggests England faces a “significant and
The European Commission on Thursday called for a tougher U.N. Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer by curbing super greenhouse gases known as HFCs, that have a global warming potential thousands
After sweltering through its hottest year on record in 2014, England is likely to feel the effects of more human-induced climate change in the future, an Australian-led research team has discovered.
Ice cores pulled from miles below Antarctica’s surface are revealing new evidence of ancient links between the climates of Earth’s Northern and Southern hemispheres. A cylinder of ice drilled from a depth
Climate change will have significant repercussions for Australians’ health as warming temperatures fuel extreme weather events, help spread disease and disrupt food and water supplies, according to a report
California would aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 under a plan announced on Wednesday that steps up the state’s previously established target, which has cut emissions partly by forcing
Sydney's rain is becoming more torrential, particularly during summer, a trend researchers say will increase with further global warming and force engineers to design resilient structures that are able
The world’s biggest fossil fuel companies are taking a defiant stance against warnings that reserves of coal, oil and gas are already several times larger than can be burned if the world’s governments
Climate change may be responsible for the abrupt collapse of a civilization on the fringes of the Tibetan Plateau around 2000 BC. Scientists have discovered that cooling global temperatures may have pushed
<p>The questions raised were the following:</p> <p>(a) whether it is a fact that the <strong>homes are responsible for the highest emission of greenhouse gases</strong>; and</p> <p>(b) whether it is
The vast tropical forests of Amazonia account for almost one-fifth of the world's terrestrial vegetation carbon stock About 1% of all the tree species in the Amazon account for half of the carbon locked
The month of May brings many things, among them Mother’s Day, tulips, and Lyme Disease Awareness campaigns. But according to Dr. Richard S. Ostfeld, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem
The moderate global warming that has occurred as a result of human emissions has quadrupled the frequency of certain heat extremes since the Industrial Revolution, scientists reported on Monday, warning
The United Nations and Vatican joined forces Tuesday to warn about the dire effects of climate change, gathering religious leaders, Nobel laureates and heads of state to present a united front ahead of
The United Nations and Vatican joined forces Tuesday to warn about the dire effects of climate change, gathering religious leaders, Nobel laureates and heads of state to present a united front ahead of
If you find yourself sweating out a day that is monstrously hot, chances are you can blame humanity. A new report links three out of four such days to man's effects on climate. And as climate change worsens