Climate science
Volcanoes can hide ‘lost’ global warming
Team led by University of Colorado-Boulder suggest emissions from erupting volcanoes could mask the effect of greenhouse gases and keep temperatures low
Antarctic ice cores back CO2 and temperature link
Reduced uncertainty shows synchronised increase in CO2 and warming at the end of last ice age
Why climate change means more rain – and drought
Researchers say they have found evidence that in the last 30 years wet seasons have been becoming wetter and dry ones drier
Coral bleaching could hit 74% of world’s reefs by 2045
New research suggest warming oceans will lead to annual bleaching events for majority of world’s reefs
Climate change and extreme weather linked in new research
Extreme weather is often the result of climate change, says scientists in Germany, who claim to have found link between GHGs and changes in weather patterns
Tackling climate change can help end poverty – report
A United Nations scheme intended to guarantee everyone access to clean energy could help to keep global temperature rise below 2°C say researchers
Black carbon blamed for 30% of Nepal glacier melt
Researchers suspect soot from fires in India and China ‘probably’ responsible for a third of glacial retreat in Himalaya
New York could be as hot as Bahrain by 2200
Working output could be reduced by 20% in USA if high end predictions of global warming become reality
UN food chief labels Quinoa ‘climate friendly’
José Graziano da Silva joined by Ban Ki-moon in hailing resilient crop’s potential to bolster food security and put world on zero hunger path
India and Nepal face struggle over water resources
Water scarcity in the world’s ‘third pole’ could be exacerbated by climate change
Climate change linked to 2011 East Africa drought
UK Met Office report suggests human influence affected rainy seasons in East Africa ahead of catastrophic drought
Carbon negative strategy needed to combat climate change
Ivy League university says a switch to an energy system that extracts more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits could be necessary
Climate resilient rice offers hope to Indian farmers
New method of growing rice has achieved significantly larger harvests while reducing the need for fertilisers and curbing emissions of greenhouse gases
Former IPCC chief warns of 5°C temperature rise
Former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Bob Watson says global average temperatures could reach 5°C above their pre-industrial level
Arctic winter sea ice down 9% since 2003
Arctic sea ice levels dropped 9% in the winter between 2003 and 2012 according to analysis from the American Geophysical Union
Thawing Arctic set to release tonnes of stored carbon
The melting of Arctic ice frozen for many thousands or even millions of years is speeding up, a potential route for carbon frozen deep below ground level
David Miliband: Ocean indicators are all flashing red
Former Foreign Secretary to co-chair new Global Ocean Commission to find answers to economical and environmental challenges of the high seas
A Nepalese perspective on climate change
Kathmandu teacher Vishnu Dangi offers a view of the challenges climate change and environmental degradation poses his country
Climate impacts on Amazon expected to be complex
Scientist says Amazon rainforest less likely to succumb to die-off of trees, because main greenhouse gas could act as a powerful fertiliser
Climate change causing increase in global rainfall
Scientists from the University of Adelaide say more than a century of records provide statistically significant proof that global rainfall is increasing