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Prolonged periods of drought resulting from China’s 23rd consecutive "warm winter" will pose a serious threat to the country’s crop yields, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said in a report published Tuesday. Some regions could experience droughts until the spring, the report said, adding that the warm weather might even continue until summer. Warm winter […]
A persistent pollutant, tributyltin, has effects on gene activity in a wide range of animal species at concentrations of parts per billion. and its chemical relatives bind to nuclear receptors that in turn activate genes influencing the formation of fat storage cells. This and other evidence suggests a possible role for tributyl tin in the […]
NEAH BAY — Measurements of ocean acidification off the North Olympic Peninsula coast at Tatoosh Island show acidity is rising more than 10 times faster than climate models have predicted. The researchers cannot say whether the trend is widespread. The eight years of research also revealed that the corrosive effect of acidic ocean waters could […]
AFP – Earth’s climate appears to be changing more quickly and deeply than a benchmark UN report for policymakers predicted, top scientists said ahead of international climate talks starting Monday in Poland. Evidence published since the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change’s (IPCC) February 2007 report suggests that future global warming may be driven not just […]
The Canadian Coast Guard has confirmed that in a major first, a commercial ship traveled through the Northwest Passage this fall to deliver supplies to communities in western Nunavut. The MV Camilla Desgagnés, owned by Desgagnés Transarctik Inc., transported cargo from Montreal to the hamlets of Cambridge Bay, Kugluktuk, Gjoa Haven and Taloyoak in September. […]
ScienceDaily (Nov. 29, 2008) — Researchers at the Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales and at a subsidiary of CNES have discovered that the accelerated melting of continental icepacks is the major reason for the rise in sea level over the 2003 to 2008 period, something which has minimized the effect of thermal expansion […]
AFP – Brazil’s Amazon jungles, known as the lungs of the world, lost almost 12,000 square kilometres (4,800 sq. miles) in just 12 months, a rise of almost 4.0 percent, new figures showed Friday. Amazon deforestation up almost 4.0 percent (AFP) Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:21:29 GMT Technorati Tags: Amazon,deforestation
New rifts have developed on the Wilkins Ice Shelf that could lead to the opening of the ice bridge that has been preventing the ice shelf from disintegrating and breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctica: Wilkins Ice Shelf Under Threat Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT Technorati Tags: Antarctic,ice shelf,global warming
New research shows that we should be looking to the ground, not the sky, to see where climate change could have its most perilous impact on life on Earth. Scientists have shown that global warming actually changes the molecular structure of organic matter in soil. "Soil contains more than twice the amount of carbon than […]
The disaster in south Florida is invisible from above water but the damage is horrific. Hundreds of yards of sensitive coral reefs, part of the largest such ecosystem in the United States, have been sliced through by boats in two incidents over the last month. Indeed, because of choppy conditions, the assessment of the damage […]
