Seas were nearly 10 metres higher than now in previous interglacial period. By Richard A. Lovett With climate talks stalling in Copenhagen, a study suggests that one problem, sea level rise, may be even more urgent than previously thought. Robert Kopp, a palaeoclimatologist at Princeton University in New Jersey, and his colleagues examined sea level […]
By 2050, ocean acidity could increase by 150 percent. This increase is 100 times faster than any change in acidity experienced in the marine environment over the last 20 million years. By Nanet Poulsen 14/12/2009 06:10 The secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) released Monday a major study in collaboration with the UNEP […]
THERE was only one way to describe it: “Terrible.” That was the response from cattle grazier Mick Tomb when new NSW Premier Kristina Keneally asked him how things were on her first visit to drought-ridden NSW. His one word answer was no exaggeration. If it doesn’t rain in the next two months, the Tomb family […]
Irvine, Calif., December 14, 2009 — New space observations reveal that since October 2003, the aquifers for California’s primary agricultural region – the Central Valley – and its major mountain water source – the Sierra Nevada – have lost nearly enough water combined to fill Lake Mead, America’s largest reservoir. The findings, based on satellite […]
By ELISABETH ROSENTHALPublished: December 13, 2009 EL ALTO, Bolivia — When the tap across from her mud-walled home dried up in September, Celia Cruz stopped making soups and scaled back washing for her family of five. She began daily pilgrimages to better-off neighborhoods, hoping to find water there. Though she has lived here for a […]
Torrential rainfall increases – e.g. development of the summer monsoon. Goswami, B.N. et al. (2006), Science 314 Ambitious climate protection targets are needed – or the cost of climate change will keep rising [pdf] Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change,flood,monsoon,India
The northern coastline of Alaska midway between Point Barrow and Prudhoe Bay is eroding by up to one-third the length of a football field annually because of a “triple whammy” of declining sea ice, warming seawater and increased wave activity, according to new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. The conditions have […]
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Black soot deposited on Tibetan glaciers has contributed significantly to the retreat of the world’s largest non-polar ice masses, according to new research by scientists from NASA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Soot absorbs incoming solar radiation and can speed glacial melting when deposited on snow in sufficient quantities. Temperatures […]
(University of Colorado at Boulder) The northern coastline of Alaska midway between Point Barrow and Prudhoe Bay is eroding by up to one-third the length of a football field annually because of a “triple whammy” of declining sea ice, warming seawater and increased wave activity, according to new study led by the University of […]
Rising temperatures and sea levels brought on by climate change could have devastating effects on British wildlife from salmon to wildfowl, the Environment Agency warned. The agency said the country’s waterways could be hit by invading species, such as African clawed toads and South American water primrose, which spread disease to native wildlife and clog […]
