Climate

Unseasonal Floods - Climate Change?

Free State Province, South Africa: It was 5am when I threw my feet over the 11°C heated bed and landed in -3°C mini-stream of water. I fumbled in the dark...

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Act now to prime the green growth pump says WWF

It's time to step up the pace says WWF, which is calling on governments to take speedy, co-operative action on creating the clean technologies which will help mitigate the effects...

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Sun spot decrease is not an ice age say scientists

The Sun is heading for a period of decreased activity say scientists who have been stirred by reaction to their research to issue a statement denying that they are predicting...

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Farmer's count the cost of drought

The National Farmer's Union says it expects the UK's wheat harvest to drop by at least 15% this year, blaming drought conditions in the early part of 2011. Surveying union...

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Climate-change drying out Western US, as snows melt

[Photo Caption: Trees growing at high elevations below melting snow fields.] [Photo Credit: Greg Pederson, 2009, © Science/AAAS] For much of the world, snow-pack and ice provide a needed thread...

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