News tagged with climate service
A practical guide to green products and services
A new report published today by the European Commission's in-house science service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), provides key information for policy makers and business managers on how to assess the environmental impacts ...
May 15, 2012 |
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Miami blue butterfly to be declared endangered
The tiny Miami blue butterfly, reduced to a few hundred survivors on isolated islands off Key West, will be formally declared a federally endangered species on Friday.
Apr 05, 2012 |
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Biodiversity enhances ecosystems global drylands: researchers
An international team of researchers including Dr. Bertrand Boeken of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev suggest in a new study that plant biodiversity preservation is ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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The biodiversity crisis: Worse than climate change
Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world. The challenges of conserving the world's species are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change. Dealing with the biodiversity ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Billion-dollar weather disasters smash US record
(AP) -- America's wild weather year has set another record: a dozen billion-dollar catastrophes.
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Q&A: Paul Ehrlich fears the worst for a planet with 7 billion residents
The United Nations projects that world population will reach 7 billion this month and could top 10 billion by the end of the century.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2011 |
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The fate of the big rain
Climate change affects people both globally and regionally. Pankaj Kumar, for example, who works at the Climate Service Center and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, is investigating the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Groundbreaking DNA tests could trap deer poachers
Poachers could be tracked down through tests for human DNA on deer remains, according to research led by scientists at the University of Strathclyde.
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Google Maps taking armchair explorers to the Amazon
Two women washed clothes in the dark water of the Rio Negro as a boat glided past with a camera-laden Google tricycle strapped to the roof, destined to give the world a window into the Amazon rain forest.
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Walrus herds gather on Alaska's northwest shore
(AP) -- Large herds of Pacific walrus have begun gathering on the northwest coast of Alaska, again forsaking sea ice for sand in what has become a symbol of climate warming in the region.
Aug 19, 2011 |
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80 percent of world climate data are not computerized
In order to gain a better knowledge of climate variations, such as those caused by global warming, and be able to tackle them, we need to understand what happened in the recent past. This is the conclusion ...
Jul 20, 2011 |
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Wood products part of winning carbon-emissions equation, researchers say
Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to grow, so forests have long been proposed as a way to offset climate change.
Jul 14, 2011 |
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Native groups sue over polar bear critical habitat
(AP) -- Alaska Native groups worried about losing tax revenues and royalties from oil development filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the federal government's designation of critical habitat for threatened polar bears on ...
May 14, 2011 |
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UK climatologists seek bubble blowers, cloud watchers
Meteorologists launched a new campaign Wednesday to get people in England involved in measuring climate change by using a mirror, soap bubbles or simply looking up at the sky.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Massive computing effort to evaluate national hydrological models
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Penn State civil engineers has received one of the largest single-year allocations of supercomputing hours made for 2010.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2010 |
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