Climate

River water hundreds of miles off course

Red arrows show the new path of Russian river water into the Canada Basin. The previous freshwater pathway - across the Eurasian Basin toward Greenland and the Atlantic - was...

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Climate change extinction risk 'greatly underestimated'

Alaskan ice cave, Valdez glacier via Shutterstock Climate change could cause many more animal and plant extinctions than previously thought, ecologists say. Most previous climate change modelling has not taken...

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No rising pattern of extreme rainfall in India

The globe shows rainfall values and represents research focused on global climate change while the India map shows the spatial variability of rainfall extremes. There is no evidence for rising...

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Paleoclimatologists question climate change limits

At the Earth's current rate of carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere, the planet is likely to experience several degrees increase in average temperatures and large-scale changes such as ice...

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Warming to it (globally)

Global temperatures via Shutterstock The almost linear increase in global mean temperature since 1979 has been mapped out by Grant Foster of Tempo Analytica in the US and Stefan Rahmstorf...

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COP 17: Week 2

Credit: The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 7th Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as...

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Arctic inter-relationships with some chilly revelations

A cloud‐free composite image of the Arctic region; Credit: Scientific Visualization Studio, NASA‐GSFC The US's NOAA duties include regular reports and the latest prepares us for another of those winters...

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The tenth warmest year ever is: 2011

Arctic sea ice via Shutterstock This year is the 10th warmest on record and the highest ever when taking into account the cooling La Nina effect, figures suggest. At the...

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