News tagged with global warming
Related topics: climate change , carbon dioxide , greenhouse gas emissions , greenhouse gases , greenhouse gas
Ecological impact on Canada's Arctic coastline linked to global climate change
Scientists from Queen's and Carleton universities head a national multidisciplinary research team that has uncovered startling new evidence of the destructive impact of global climate change on North America's ...
May 16, 2011 |
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US farmers dodge the impacts of global warming -- at least for now
Global warming is likely already taking a toll on world wheat and corn production, according to a new study led by Stanford University researchers. But the United States, Canada and northern Mexico have largely ...
May 05, 2011 |
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Journey to the center of the Amazon
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest on Earth and home to millions of species. Yet, deforestation, or the clearing of forested areas, poses a threat to the livelihood of the forest.
May 05, 2011 |
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Giant fossil ants linked to global warming
(PhysOrg.com) -- Four paleontologists, including two at Simon Fraser University, have discovered the fossil of a gigantic ant whose globetrotting sheds light on how global warming events affected the distribution ...
May 04, 2011 |
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Turning up the gas
Rapid increases in greenhouse gases have happened more frequently in the Earth’s history than previously realized, according to a Scripps Institution of Oceanography-led study published in the journal ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 26, 2011 |
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Democrats and Republicans increasingly divided over global warming
Despite the growing scientific consensus that global warming is real, Americans have become increasingly polarized on the environmental problem, according to a first-of-its-kind study led by a Michigan State University researcher.
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Americans believe climate change is occurring, but disagree on why: report
Most Americans now agree that climate change is occurring, but still disagree on why, with opinions about the cause of climate change defined by political party, not scientific understanding, according to new research from ...
Apr 19, 2011 |
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Geographer says, expect weather severity to increase
(PhysOrg.com) -- Natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes and floods occur every year, but are they getting worse?
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Shootingstars provide clues to likely response of plants to global warming
Many scientists are concerned that plant and animal species may face extinction due to global warming, but biologists at Washington University in St. Louis are trying to predict exactly what will happen to ...
Apr 11, 2011 |
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US House votes to curb climate regulation
The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill aimed at preventing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
Apr 07, 2011 |
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Airplane contrails worse than CO2 emissions for global warming: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Nature Climate Change, Dr. Ulrike Burkhardt and Dr. Bernd Karcher from the Institute for Atmospheric Physics at the German Aerospace Centre show that the co ...
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Bones conjure Yellowstone's ecological ghosts
By taking a closer look at animal bones scattered across the wilderness landscape, a researcher at the University of Chicago has found a powerful tool for showing how species' populations have changed over ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Cutting carbon dioxide helps prevent drying
Recent climate modeling has shown that reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would give the Earth a wetter climate in the short term. New research from Carnegie Global Ecology scientists Long Cao ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Think globally, but act locally when studying plants, animals, global warming
Global warming is clearly affecting plants and animals, but we should not try to tease apart the specific contribution of greenhouse gas driven climate change to extinctions or declines of species at local ...
Mar 20, 2011 |
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Ancient 'hyperthermals' a guide to anticipated climate changes
Bursts of intense global warming that have lasted tens of thousands of years have taken place more frequently throughout history than previously believe, according to evidence gathered by a team led by Scripps ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 16, 2011 |
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