President Barack Obama is proposing dusting off and finally launching an old environmental satellite championed by Al Gore but shelved a dozen years by his 2000 rival George W. Bush.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

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Many factors—including climate change, overfishing or loss of food supply—can push a wild animal population to the brink of collapse. Ecologists have long sought ways to measure the risk of such a collapse, ...

Biology - Ecology

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Several major companies issued a joint call Wednesday for the United States to enact legislation to battle climate change, saying that the issue was critical to their businesses.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 10, 2013 3.8 / 5 (10) 1

Washington State University's (WSU) Laboratory for Atmospheric Research is leading a nationwide field study to better understand methane emissions associated with the distribution of natural gas.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 10, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

(Phys.org) —Variations in nutrient availability in the world's oceans could be a vital component of future environmental change, according to a multi-author review paper involving the National Oceanography ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

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(Phys.org) —Changes in Arctic vegetation due to climate change have probably been underestimated, according to a new computer analysis which shows that tree and shrub cover in the region will increase more ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 10, 2013 3.9 / 5 (15) 21 |

The vast region of Africa known as the Sahel will descend into large-scale drought, famine, war and terrorist control if immediate, coordinated steps are not taken to avert the perfect storm of climate change ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 10, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 3

A new study by scientists at the University of York and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) shows that bird species which have colonised the UK in recent decades breed initially almost exclusively in ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 10, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Not only do humans emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but they also do things that help remove these gases from the atmosphere—for example, planting more forests or other land management techniques can lead to greater ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 10, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 0

Which is more important, pandas or pinot? Researchers say that is a question conservationists and wine-growers will have to answer in the coming years as climate change sparks a hunt for cooler places to ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 08, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

Carnegie scientists have found that the plant species making up an ecosystem are better predictors of ecosystem chemistry than environmental conditions such as terrain, geology, or altitude. This is the first ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 08, 2013 3.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

Scientists from Cardiff University and the University of Barcelona have discovered new clues about past rapid climate change.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

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Flights will become bumpier as global warming destabilises air currents at altitudes used by commercial airliners, climate scientists warned Monday.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 08, 2013 3.4 / 5 (10) 5

(Phys.org) —While it is important to understand how the Earth system works from a process-level basis, it is clear that human activities are increasingly challenging assumptions about how that system works. ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 08, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org) —UC Santa Cruz ocean sciences professor Christina Ravelo is part of an international team that is using ocean floor sediment samples to compile data on past periods of global warming in order ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

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