By Mark Kinver
Tag: Climate.
Global warming pause ‘central’ to IPCC climate report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is meeting in Sweden to thresh out a critical report on global warming.
Human role in warming ‘more certain’ – UN climate chief
Scientists are more certain than ever that greenhouse gases from human activities are heating the planet, the head of the UN’s climate panel says.
Norway abandons Mongstad carbon capture plans
The outgoing government in Norway has buried much-vaunted plans to capture carbon dioxide and store it underground amid mounting costs and delays.
Carbon capture and storage to be monitored by cosmic rays
By Simon Redfern
New study of the Arctic Ocean finds alarming increase in acidity
Roger Greenway, ENN
Himalayas need many disaster warning systems
Athar Parvaiz
Disaster risk reduction and adaption urged for community resilience
The United Nations Development Programme and its partners in Bangladesh at a national policy dialogue in the city on Tuesday highlighted the importance of treating climate change adaptations and disaster risk reduction through aligned national policies and spending.
Climate change may have impacted half of 2012′s extreme weather
By Carolyn Gramling
Kashmir could face disaster like Uttarakhand’s – experts
Athar Parvaiz
Pashmina Withers on the Roof of the World
By Athar Parvaiz
Well-managed mangroves ‘can survive rising sea levels’
From: Richa Malhotra, SciDevNet
Climate science alarming, irrefutable: Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday the evidence for climate change was beyond dispute but it was not too late for international action to prevent its worst impacts.
Climate change ‘driving spread of crop pests’
Climate change is helping pests and diseases that attack crops to spread around the world, a study suggests.
New report calls for immediate action to tackle aviation emissions
A new scientific report released today highlights the critical importance of taking early action when implementing measures to reduce the climate impact of rapidly increasing emissions from aviation.
Ocean acidification: More than just corals at risk
by Larry O’Hanlon
Sea Levels dropped in 2010 -2011, why?
In 2011, scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the University of Colorado at Boulder reported that between early 2010 and summer 2011, global sea level fell sharply, by about a quarter of an inch, or half…
Arctic Sea ice continuing downward trend
By Eurasia Review
Farmers raise resilience to climate change by diversifying crops
The loss of arable land due to climate change may amount to as much as 21 percent in South America, 18 percent in Africa, and 11 to 17 percent in Europe, according to scientists at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.…
When disaster rains, talk
By Amantha Perera
Climate panel cites near certainty on warming
An international panel of scientists has found with near certainty that human activity is the cause of most of the temperature increases of recent decades, and warns that sea levels could conceivably rise by more than three feet by the…
Warming climate pushes plants up the mountain
By Eurasia Review
Another step towards halting desertification
By Ramesh Jaura
Greenland ice is also melting from below
The Greenland ice sheet is melting from below, caused by a high heat flow from the mantle into the lithosphere. This influence is very variable spatially and has its origin in an exceptionally thin lithosphere. Consequently, there is an increased…
The promises and perils of geoengineering as climate quick fix
Washington, D.C.—Geoengineering, by definition, is any deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment to counteract human-caused climate change.
Rise in violence ‘linked to climate change’
By Rebecca Morelle
Obama’s climate change speech: Beneath the surface
By Sarah Marshall, B.S. Environmental Policy
Climate change, biodiversity loss to hit global business
The future of the private sector will increasingly hinge on the ability of businesses to adapt to the world’s rapidly changing environment and to develop goods and services that can reduce the impacts of climate change, water scarcity, emissions of…
South Asia disunity ‘hampers flood warnings’
By Navin Singh Khadka