Climate

Ice-free Arctic dangers of a 'cold war'

Not only polar bears' woes but also President Obama's Defence Department float some ideas on the drastic and potentially deadly results of our loss of Arctic ice; Polar Bear Image;...

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Global predictions: before they destroy us!

The planet is offering us little help in deciphering the warming connection with our eternal emissions, aerosols and air and ocean effects! - Planet Earth image; Credit: © Shutterstock Since...

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World Meteorological Day - 23rd March

World Meteorological Day 2013; Credit: © Shutterstock The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) was created on 23rd March 1950 and in 1951 it was designated as being a specialised agency within...

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Temperature, Oxygen and Acidification in the Oceans

Chromis sp. around an Acropora, one of the reef-building corals affected most by rising temperatures, whereby the dinoflagellate symbionts are forced to exit the coral (coral whitening); Credit: © Rich...

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Studies Needed on Arctic Ice

The polar bear, Ursus maritimus, classically uses the frozen Arctic floes and the cold seas for food and swimming between land. Without a lot of ice, it' future is also...

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Baby elephants and the effects of climate change

Here is one of the authors of the paper with her "charges!"; Credit: © HS Mumby We thought they were immune, because they appear to be so resilient. We don't...

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Big loss of biodiversity with global warming

This Alaskan glacier has calved into the ocean yet another of its clumsy offspring. Unfortunately, the living varieties of calves of many species will not be produced now as the...

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Searing Temperatures for the US

Drought Image; Credit: © Shutterstock If there were any climate change denialists located in the United States, over the last nine months, their arguments have been shattered by rising temperatures...

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That oil palm problem - again?

The habitat for all forest species is already vastly reduced in Indonesian Kalimantan. Where next, you might ask, for these precious creatures and plants from the most diverse rainforests? -...

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