News tagged with global warming

Related topics: climate change , carbon dioxide , greenhouse gas emissions , greenhouse gases , greenhouse gas

Report: EPA cut corners on climate finding

(AP) -- The Obama administration cut corners before concluding that climate-change pollution can endanger human health, a key finding underpinning costly new regulations, an internal government watchdog said Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

How global warming could cause animals to shrink

The way in which global warming causes many of the world’s organisms to shrink has been revealed by new research from Queen Mary, University of London.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?

(AP) -- Tucked between treatises on algae and prehistoric turquoise beads, the study on page 460 of a long-ago issue of the U.S. journal Science drew little attention.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 24, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (28) | comments 97

Water evaporated from trees cools global climate

Scientists have long debated about the impact on global climate of water evaporated from vegetation. New research from Carnegie's Global Ecology department concludes that evaporated water helps cool the earth as a whole, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 14

Switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate, study indicates

Although the burning of natural gas emits far less carbon dioxide than coal, a new study concludes that a greater reliance on natural gas would fail to significantly slow down climate change. The study appears ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 51 | with audio podcast

Global warming brings crab threat to Antarctica

The sea floor around the West Antarctica peninsula could become invaded by a voracious king crab, which is on the march thanks to global warming, biologists reported on Wednesday.

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 12

Cutting soot emissions: Fastest, most economical way to slow global warming

A new study of dust-like particles of soot in the air — now emerging as the second most important -- but previously overlooked -- factor in global warming provides fresh evidence that reducing soot emissions from diesel ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Mysteries of ozone depletion continue 25 years after the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole

Even after many decades of studying ozone and its loss from our atmosphere miles above the Earth, plenty of mysteries and surprises remain, including an unexpected loss of ozone over the Arctic this past winter, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 19

Cooling down global warming

(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon capture has long been identified as a critical technology needed to prevent global warming, but efficient and economical ways to do it have been hard to find.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 8

Brightening clouds: Atmospheric scientists evaluate a technique for reflecting more sunlight back to space

(PhysOrg.com) -- What happens when tiny seawater particles are intentionally injected into low clouds over the ocean? To answer this question, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the National ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Polar dinosaur tracks open new trail to past

Paleontologists have discovered a group of more than 20 polar dinosaur tracks on the coast of Victoria, Australia, offering a rare glimpse into animal behavior during the last period of pronounced global warming, about 105 ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Skeptic's small cloud study renews climate rancor

(AP) -- A study on how much heat in Earth's atmosphere is caused by cloud cover has heated up the climate change blogosphere even as it is dismissed by many scientists.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 30, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (14) | comments 92

Russia may lose 30% of permafrost by 2050

Russia's vast permafrost areas may shrink by a third by the middle of the century due to global warming, endangering infrastructure in the Arctic zone, an emergencies ministry official said Friday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (22) | comments 7

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 ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Warming ocean layers will undermine polar ice sheets

Warming of the ocean's subsurface layers will melt underwater portions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets faster than previously thought, according to new University of Arizona-led research. Such melting ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 03, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (14) | comments 101 | with audio podcast