Climate

Climate change awareness down in Europe

According to figures recently released by Eurostat, Europeans are becoming increasingly confused about climate change and its origins. In 2011 49% of the respondents were aware of its causes as...

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Bringing soot and methane on board, post-Kyoto

Whilst CO2 towers over the other greenhouse gases, and pollutants, that mankind is pumping into the atmosphere - day-in day-out - there are many other players pulling us towards catastrophic...

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Food harvests dragged lower by global warming

There have already been plenty of indicators that global warming may be acting as a drag on world food production - lowering yields and pushing up food prices. Now a...

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Ozone Hole Over the Arctic is of Record Proportions

The phenomenon of a ''hole'' in the ozone blanket that covers the earth at polar latitudes was first discovered in 1985 by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey. The ''hole''...

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Rapid increase in ice loss from the Canadian Arctic

Image Credit: Angus Duncan, University of Alberta. (Ice lake or supraglacial lake. Surface melt water can pond on the surface of the glacier forming large lakes that can drain within...

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