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Long-Term Effects of Carbon Dioxide on Plants Studied

(PhysOrg.com) -- Long-term, open-top chamber studies of how rising carbon dioxide (CO2) could affect crops, forests, and pastures reveal a wide range of impacts, according to Agricultural Research Service ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Study: Slowdown in warming last year not permanent

(AP) -- Cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing, government and academic scientists said Friday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (20) | comments 18

UK University to probe integrity of climate data

(AP) -- A British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its prestigious Climatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Scientific debate sparked over carbon sink data

(PhysOrg.com) -- According to research published this week in Nature Geoscience, emissions of carbon dioxide continue to outstrip the ability of the world’s natural ‘sinks’ to absorb carbon. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Experts: Failure to focus on farming will undermine global climate agreement and increase hunger

Alarmed by a substantial oversight in the global climate talks leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month, more than 60 of the world's most prominent agricultural scientists and leaders ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across US (w/ Video)

Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The ratio of record highs ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (30) | comments 7

Methane gas likely spewing into the oceans through vents in sea floor (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists worry that rising global temperatures accompanied by melting permafrost in arctic regions will initiate the release of underground methane into the atmosphere. Once released, that ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 8

Scientists propose Antarctic location for 'missing' ice sheet

New research by scientists at UC Santa Barbara indicates a possible Antarctic location for ice that seemed to be missing at a key point in climate history 34 million years ago. The research, which has important ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cosmic meddling with the clouds by seven-day magic

Billions of tonnes of water droplets vanish from the atmosphere, as if by magic, in events that reveal in detail how the Sun and the stars control our everyday clouds. Researchers of the National Space Institute in the Technical ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 9

Douglas-fir, geoducks make strange bedfellows in studying climate change

Scientists are comparing annual growth rings of the Pacific Northwest's largest bivalve and its most iconic tree for clues to how living organisms may have responded to changes in climate.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Wildfires set to increase 50 percent by 2050

The area of forest burnt by wildfires in the United States is set to increase by over 50% by 2050, according to research by climate scientists.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Jeepers creepers: Climate change threatens endangered honeycreepers

As climate change causes temperatures to increase in Hawaii's mountains, deadly non-native bird diseases will likely also creep up the mountains, invading most of the last disease-free refuges for honeycreepers - a group ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

CT Scan To Help Scientists Diagnose Role of Clouds in Climate

(PhysOrg.com) -- During May and June 2009, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Colorado at Boulder will use high-tech ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Former coal mine aids Arctic climate research

Out of place in the snowy, polar landscape, the train that once hauled coal out of the mountain serves as a reminder to scientists at the Ny-Aalesund Arctic research station of the origin of the planet's woes.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Southern Hemisphere Ants Richer and More Diversified

There are fewer species of ants in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere. This is the conclusion drawn by an international team of scientists that have studied 1,003 local ant assemblages ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0