Climate

Climate Mitigation from Agriculture is Limited.

How will farmers adapt to the most modern technologies designed to prevent gross greenhouse gas emissions? Even if they do, the outlook is bleak unless innovation rates improve. Rice harvest...

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How hot is the earth now?

An update on what we can expect this week with April’s potential for record-breaking, as well as what is hoped for in 2017. Global Warming image; Credit: © Shutterstock The...

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Antarctic penguin loss reported to be severe.

As they run from the sea, these Adà ©lie penguins have a short journey to feed their young. In East Antarctica, however, the tragedy of dead chicks tells the story...

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Lake disappears as Bolivia dries up.

Lake Hedionda Bolivian lake image; Credit: © Shutterstock While Lake Titicaca is a very large lake, the second largest Bolivian body of water (at about one-eighth of Titicaca) is another...

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Bleaching: a coral health and recovery guide

Star coral, Siderastrea, and fire coral, Millepora, are smaller species found alongside the Porites and Orbicella corals that form the subject of this study in the Caribbean.Corals of the Caribbean...

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Global warming figures are becoming even worse

While the Arctic's automatic weather stations were the first to record these highest levels of carbon dioxide in 2012, now we can all have a share. Spitzbergen Northern Lights image;...

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Vanuatu Suffers Cyclone Pam.

The beaches of Port Olry, near Port Vila, are a scene of the past for now, as destruction of trees, houses and important infrastructure follows the path of Cyclone Pam.Vanuatu...

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Bigger Ideas on Climate Change

For those on coasts or islands, carbon emissions have created a global problem that will affect their sea levels as well as the already-extreme conditions we have in our weather....

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Planktonic growth and fishy futures.

While phytoplankton bloom in more acid conditions, do their predators like the copepods here gain or suffer from the chemical changes. Copepods are sensitive to low pH and the oceans...

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