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WWF Fails Performance of Australian Carbon Emitters

Some major Australian power generators are doing next to nothing to prepare for a low-carbon future, according to a new report from WWF-Australia

8 Sep 2008

Understanding the Connection Between Climate Change and Aerosols

A group of scientists affiliated with the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) have proposed a new framework to account more accurately for the effects of aerosols on precipitation in climate models

8 Sep 2008

US EPA Moves to Clean Up Emissions From Nonroad Gas Engines

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today took action to cut pollution from a major source of summertime smog and to protect human health by finalizing clean air standards for nonroad gasoline engines

8 Sep 2008

Climate Modeling Petascale Supercomputer Fires Up at University of Miami

NSF funds 3-year study of weather, climate change computation in collaboration with NCAR, COLA and UC-Berkeley

5 Sep 2008

U.S. Wind Industry Passes 20 000 Megawatts of Installed Capacity

The U.S. wind industry has raced past the 20,000-megawatt (MW) installed capacity milestone, achieving in two years what had previously taken more than two decades

4 Sep 2008

Bad News For Global Warming as Thawing Permafrost Holds Twice The Carbon in the Atmosphere

Permafrost blanketing the northern hemisphere contains more than twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, making it a potentially mammoth contributor to global climate change depending on how quickly it thaws

3 Sep 2008

Stonger Hurricanes Linked to Climate Change and Warmer Seas

The theory that global warming may be contributing to stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic over the past 30 years is bolstered by a new study

3 Sep 2008

Sea Level Now Expected to Rise Faster Than Previously Predicted

If the lessons being learned by scientists about the demise of the last great North American ice sheet are correct, estimates of global sea level rise from a melting Greenland ice sheet may be seriously underestimated

31 Aug 2008

Another Record Low Tipped For Arctic Ice

Following last summer's record minimum ice cover in the Arctic, current observations from ESA's Envisat satellite suggest that the extent of polar sea-ice may again shrink to a level very close to that of last year

28 Aug 2008

Climate Change also Happening on Mars Says Antarctic Research

Researchers examining images of gullies on the flanks of craters on Mars say they formed as recently as a few hundred thousand years ago and in sites once occupied by glaciers. The features are eerily reminiscent of gullies formed in Antarctica's mars-like McMurdo Dry Valleys

28 Aug 2008