What was the Medieval warm period?
What was the Medieval warm period? What caused it, and did carbon dioxide play a role?
Earth Sciences
Apr 20, 2021
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News tagged with temperature increase
Lake 'dead zones' could kill fish and poison drinking water
'Dead zones' could become increasingly common in lakes in future due to climate change, reducing fish numbers and releasing toxic substances into drinking water.
Earth Sciences
Mar 19, 2019
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Drought losses in China will soar with continuing global warming, study says
Economic losses caused by drought in China may double if the global temperature rises by 1.5°C to 2.0°C above pre-industrial levels, with increasing drought intensity and areal coverage across China, a new economic assessment ...
Environment
Oct 1, 2018
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Nature-based carbon removal can help protect us from a warming planet
A new study finds that temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower global peak warming levels but only if complemented by ambitious fossil fuel emission reductions.
Environment
Mar 29, 2022
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Wildfire risk in California no longer coupled to winter precipitation
Wet winters no longer predict possible relief from severe wildfires for California, according to a new study from an international team that includes a University of Arizona scientist.
Environment
Mar 4, 2019
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Glass-blowers at nano scale: Researchers use STM to change size of glass capillary tubes
Have you ever thrown into the fire - even if you shouldn't have - an empty packet of crisps? The outcome is striking: the plastic shrivels and bends into itself, until it turns into a small crumpled and blackened ball. This ...
Nanophysics
Mar 25, 2013
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Large climate uncertainty even with a 1.5-degree temperature increase
The Paris climate agreement includes the aim of limiting average global warming to 1.5°C. There has previously been little research on how climate might look across the world and over time with this level of temperature ...
Environment
Jun 7, 2018
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Long-term study reveals: The deep Greenland Sea is warming faster than the world ocean
Since 1993, oceanographers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have carried out regularly expeditions to the Greenland Sea on board the research ice breaker Polarstern ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2013
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Report: Holding global warming to 2C increase still possible if nations act
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published in Nature Climate Change, by an international group of scientists, suggests that the goal of holding the average global temperature increase (due mainly to carbon emissions) to 2° ...
Wildfires projected to worsen with climate change
Research by environmental scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) brings bad news to the western United States, where firefighters are currently battling dozens of fires in at least 11 ...
Environment
Aug 28, 2013
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