Climate

Ice shelf collapse causes glacial surge

Collapsing ice shelves send glacial ice surging into the ocean, possibly for decades, new research shows. Glaciers supply ice to ice shelves, thick layers of ice fixed to a land...

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Is carbon capture kaput?

Carbon capture and storage (CCS), the much-touted technology for bolting the label 'clean' onto that benchmark bad-boy of fossil fuels - coal - has suffered some serious knock-backs over the...

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Arctic sea-ice in race to bottom

Things have looked decidedly dodgy for the Arctic polar ice-cap for a number of years now - especially since the record-breaking melt-out of 2007, when summer sea-ice levels plummeted to...

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Forests still sucking it up, when it comes to carbon

Recent studies may have shown that the oceans, and the soils, are losing their appetite for our carbon emissions. But at least the world's forests appear, for the moment, to...

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Oceans struggling to soak up CO2

The ocean is something of a martyr when it comes to mankind's continuing CO2 emissions. Like a giant sponge, it soaks up much of the greenhouse gas coming from planes,...

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Looking for the climate's future in the distant past

It's the question at the heart of the climate change story - just how does the Earth's temperature react to increased levels of CO2? Researchers from two American universities have...

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China's double-edged climate weapon

etadshow468 --> Yesterday's publishing of the innocuous-sounding ''Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature 1998-2008'', in the journal PNAS, kicked off a veritable storm of comment and debate. After many...

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