Climate science
Mongolian Steppe munched into desert by goats and sheep
Forget coal plants and gas flaring: hungry goats are the latest threat to climate, say scientists studying the cause of degraded land in the Mongolian Steppe
Pacific flights most polluting, finds study
Researchers find that flights covering an area near the Solomon Islands produce most ozone, as EU limits its ETS to own airspace
Extreme weather in 2012 directly linked to climate change
Scientists say rising sea levels and global warming increased magnitude and likelihood of 2012 extreme weather, including Hurricane Sandy
Soot blamed for melting Alps glaciers
Scientists think they know why some European glaciers started to shrink decades before climate change had begun to raise temperatures.
Brazil climate scientists predict country could heat 3-6C by 2100
Study forming part of forthcoming IPCC climate science report says Brazil’s farmers need to work out plan to adapt to effects of climate change
US temperature rises likely to exacerbate Calfornia wildfires – study
Scientists say biggest driver for fires in USA is temperatures, indicating country will have to face more wildfires in future
IPCC chief Pachauri says climate fight “five minutes to midnight”
Humanity has ‘ignored and disregarded’ debts to nature says climate science chief in withering attack on governments
Scientists confirm Clean Air Act ‘restored ecosystems’ in USA
Despite intense criticism from businesses and power companies, scientists reveal the USA’s Clean Air Act did work
Climate change forcing crop pests to flee towards poles
Organisms which can threaten food and other crops are moving towards the poles to escape increasing heat where they live at present
Could humans cause another Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum?
The world’s marine species are liable to face 100,000 years of change, scientists say, unless greenhouse gas emissions are radically reduced
Australia’s 2010-2011 floods caused sea levels to ‘drop 7mm’
Rain fell in such colossal quantities during the Australian floods in 2010 and 2011 that the world’s sea levels actually dropped by as much as 7mm
Antarctic glaciers sensitive to climate change, research shows
Research suggests enormous East Antarctic ice sheet advances and retreats with climate change more than scientists had realised
Dung beetles reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cow pats
By drying out the dung, the beetles increase the availability of oxygen and reduce the amount of methane in the pats
Comment: COP19 must discuss losses caused by climate change
COP 19 attendees should fund research on financial and human losses from climate change related disasters
Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise set to defy Russia polar ban
Greenpeace ship denied entry to the Northern Sea Route by the Russian authorities, but campaigners say they could still proceed
Planet Earth’s natural resources in ‘overdraft’ warn campaigners
By 20 August 2013, humanity had exhausted the earth’s bank natural resources for the year – and the date is getting earlier and earlier
Scientists embark on voyage to examine Arctic sea ice
Multinational team will measure a range of parameters of the sea ice, icebergs and how they interact with their ship
Anger and frustration as Ecuador’s Yasuni dreams die
President Correa blamed funding shortfall for initiative’s failure, but wider problems with Yasuni persist
Flooding could cost US$1 trillion a year by 2050
Damage from extreme weather to world’s biggest coastal cities expected to reach 0.7% of global GDP in 40 years
Waste carbon dioxide could be used as energy
Dutch scientists have thought up a new use for all the carbon dioxide that pours from the chimneys of fossil fuel-burning power stations