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(PhysOrg.com) -- For those who think of nature as a wild, unspoiled Eden that preserves the natural flora and fauna free from human interference, global warming has a nasty surprise in store, according to University of California, Berkeley, biologist Anthony Barnosky. http://phys.org/news158851283.html Space & Earth Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:22:12 EST news158851283 (AP) -- Tinkering with Earth's climate to chill runaway global warming - a radical idea once dismissed out of hand - is being discussed by the White House as a potential emergency option, the president's new science adviser said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news158416336.html Space & Earth Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:32:49 EST news158416336 Long-term global warming is prompting North American birds to winter farther north -- a trend more noticeable in Alaska than anywhere else in the nation, according to a new study by the National Audubon Society. http://phys.org/news158261792.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:36:52 EST news158261792 Apa Sherpa has stood on top of the world more times than anyone in history, and now he is heading back up Mount Everest, not for the fame or glory, but in the name of environmental protection. http://phys.org/news158224378.html Space & Earth Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:14:35 EST news158224378 (AP) -- The American pika - a short-legged, hamster-sized fur ball that huddles in high mountain slopes - isn't built for long-distance travel. http://phys.org/news158049546.html Biology Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:40:32 EST news158049546 Experts studying the mass beaching of whales along Australia's coast have warned that such tragedies could become more frequent as global warming brings the mammals' food stocks closer to shore. http://phys.org/news157888914.html Biology Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:03:14 EST news157888914 (PhysOrg.com) -- The recent warming trend in the Atlantic Ocean is largely due to reductions in airborne dust and volcanic emissions during the past 30 years, according to a new study. http://phys.org/news157296711.html Space & Earth Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:32:17 EST news157296711 Two new greenhouse gases are accumulating in the atmosphere, according to an international research team led by scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the US and CSIRO scientist, Dr Paul Fraser, from the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research. http://phys.org/news157108592.html Space & Earth Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:17:04 EST news157108592 (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the first step on the long road to regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. http://phys.org/news157054387.html Space & Earth Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:13:26 EST news157054387 (AP) -- On the 27th day of their trek, a dozen "black specks" of humanity crawling across Antarctica's vast white silence, Lou Albershardt heard a sound she'd never heard in two decades on the ice. http://phys.org/news156870658.html Space & Earth Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:11:35 EST news156870658 Even in the midst of a growing economic crisis last fall, over 90 percent of Americans said that the United States should act to reduce global warming, according to a national survey released today by researchers at Yale and George Mason Universities. The results included 34 percent who said the United States should make a large-scale effort, even if it has large economic costs. http://phys.org/news156619782.html Other Sciences Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:30:57 EST news156619782 (PhysOrg.com) -- Last summer, it was very expensive to fill up a gas tank when the gasoline price hit close to four dollars a gallon. Transportation by road or air consumes fuel, which not only increases our vulnerability to foreign imports but also is a source of greenhouse gas emissions that will impact adverse change in climate and global warming. http://phys.org/news156446277.html Technology Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:19:24 EST news156446277 (PhysOrg.com) -- Global warming is expected to cause the sea level along the northeastern U.S. coast to rise almost twice as fast as global sea levels during this century, putting New York City at greater risk for damage from hurricanes and winter storm surge, according to a new study led by a Florida State University researcher. http://phys.org/news156182801.html Space & Earth Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:07:45 EST news156182801 (AP) -- From agricultural losses to devastation wrought by wildfires, California's economy is expected to see significant costs resulting from global warming in the decades ahead, according to a new report. http://phys.org/news156062803.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:47:30 EST news156062803 How well crickets adapt to rising temperatures may provide clues about whether or not humans can survive global warming. http://phys.org/news156007270.html Biology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:22:14 EST news156007270 Sulfuryl fluoride (SO2F2), a gas commonly used to rid buildings of termites and other pests, is a greenhouse gas that remains in the atmosphere about 36 years, six to 10 times longer than previously thought, according to a research team led by Jens Mühle, an atmospheric chemist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. http://phys.org/news155930141.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:56:31 EST news155930141 Breed a better crop of wheat? That's exactly what a team of researchers from Kansas State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture hope their research will lead to. In their study, appearing in the March 2009 issue of the journal Genetics they analyzed the type of wheat commonly used to make bread in an effort to understand why it is versatile enough to be used around the world and across different climates. This analysis provides important insights into why its genetic structure gives it a tremendous advantage over other competing species. Further, their analysis provides an important first step toward improving wheat crop yields to levels that can support ever-growing populations of people. http://phys.org/news155912627.html Biology Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:04:10 EST news155912627 Here's yet another reason to hate humidity: it expands global warming, says a Texas A&M University professor. http://phys.org/news154279020.html Space & Earth Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:17:46 EST news154279020 The hot topics of global warming and environmental sustainability are concerns that fit neatly within the precepts of religious naturalism, according to Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to being a renowned cell biologist, Goodenough is a religious naturalist and the author of The Sacred Depths of Nature, a bestselling book on religious naturalism that was published in 1998. http://phys.org/news153903560.html Biology Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:00:25 EST news153903560 "Business managers of media organizations, you are screwing up your responsibility by firing science and environment reporters who are frankly the only ones competent to do this," said climate researcher and policy analyst Stephen Schneider, in assessing the current state of media coverage of global warming and related issues. http://phys.org/news153749202.html Space & Earth Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:07:03 EST news153749202 By controlling emissions of fossil fuels we may be able to greatly delay the start of the next ice age, new research from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen concludes. The results have been published in the scientific magazine, Geophysical Research Letters. http://phys.org/news153556935.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:45:00 EST news153556935 The decline of amphibian populations worldwide has been documented primarily in frogs, but salamander populations also appear to have plummeted, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists. http://phys.org/news153422243.html Biology Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:17:56 EST news153422243 With climate change threatening to destroy coral reefs, push salt water into freshwater habitats and produce more coastal storms, millions of struggling people in fishery-dependent nations of Africa, Asia and South America could face unprecedented hardship, according to a new study published today in the February issue of the peer-reviewed journal Fish and Fisheries. The study, by a team of scientists at the WorldFish Center, the University of East Anglia, Simon Fraser University, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, the University of Bremen, and the Mekong River Commission, is the first to identify individual nations that are "highly vulnerable" to the impact of climate change on fisheries. http://phys.org/news153059671.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:34:58 EST news153059671 Climate change is about to cause a major upheaval in the shallow marine waters of Antarctica. Predatory crabs are poised to return to warming Antarctic waters and disrupt the primeval marine communities. http://phys.org/news153044924.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:29:22 EST news153044924 Imagine a massive international effort to combat global warming by reducing carbon dioxide - build up in the atmosphere. It involves gathering billions of tons of cornstalks, wheat straw, and other crop residue from farm fields, bailing it, shipping the material to seaports, and then burying it in the deep ocean. http://phys.org/news152807537.html Space & Earth Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:32:37 EST news152807537 Charles Darwin may have been born 200 years ago come Feb. 12, but his theory of evolution remains an everyday touchstone for modern biologists. And while the Origin of Species author might not have known the term "global warming," he wouldn't have been surprised that the environment is changing. He would, however, be astonished by the speed at which it's happening today. http://phys.org/news152802427.html Biology Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:07:20 EST news152802427 More frequent freeze-thaw cycles in winter can increase biomass production according to the results of a recent study conducted by the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), the University of Bayreuth and the Helmholtz Center in Munich. For their experiment at the Ecological-Botanical Garden of the University of Bayreuth the researchers installed underground heating on their plots, thereby enabling five additional thawing periods to take place in the winter of 2005/2006. http://phys.org/news152194273.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:11:38 EST news152194273 Unchecked global warming would leave ocean dwellers gasping for breath. Dead zones are low-oxygen areas in the ocean where higher life forms such as fish, crabs and clams are not able to live. In shallow coastal regions, these zones can be caused by runoff of excess fertilizers from farming. A team of Danish researchers have now shown that unchecked global warming would lead to a dramatic expansion of low-oxygen areas zones in the global ocean by a factor of 10 or more. http://phys.org/news152112555.html Space & Earth Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:30:00 EST news152112555 (PhysOrg.com) -- Not only has the average global temperature increased in the past 50 years, but the hottest day of the year has shifted nearly two days earlier, according to a new study by scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University. http://phys.org/news151766660.html Space & Earth Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:24:54 EST news151766660 While the harsh winter pounding many areas of North America and Europe seemingly contradicts the fact that global warming continues unabated, a new survey finds consensus among scientists about the reality of climate change and its likely cause. http://phys.org/news151609044.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:39:04 EST news151609044