Climate

COP 18 destination announcement

Official flag of Qatar, host of COP 18 via Shutterstock In a show of utter flexibility and humbleness, the Republic of Korea agreed to support its fellow bidder the State...

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Arctic scythe laying the ice-sheets low

Glacier ice floating in the Arctic sea via Shutterstock One of the problems scientists often have is teasing out meaning from noisy and variable real-world data. Sometimes patterns need statistical...

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COP 17/ CMP 7: Day 1, Durban

(Image Source: SA Govt - Host to UNFCCC) COP 17/ CMP 7: Day 1, Durban, Monday, 28th November 2011 - On the eve of COP 17, Durban's erratic unseasonal flash...

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COP 17/ CMP 7: Chronology of Talks-Papers vs. Action

COP17/CMP7 Logo; 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...

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Examining Ice Age Hominins' adaptability to Climate Change

Computer agents (colored dots) simulating prehistoric hunter-gatherer groups are superimposed over a map of Late Pleistocene western Eurasia. Gray shows Pleistocene land area with lowered sea levels, black lines show...

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Soothsaying the Amazon's fires

A deforestation fire in Mato Grosso, Brazil during the 2006 fire season. (Photo credit: Guido van der Werf) [Image © Science/AAAS] The last decade has been a tumultuous one for...

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