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Human-Caused Climate Change Makes Southwestern United States Drier

The weather patterns that typically bring moisture to the southwestern United States are becoming more rare, an indication that the region is sliding into the drier climate state predicted by global models, according to a new study.

11 Feb 2016

Westbound Flights Spend More Time in Air Due to Effects of Climate Change

This release is provided on behalf of the University of Reading.
Planes flying between Europe and North America will be spending more time in the air due to the effects of climate change, a new study has shown.

10 Feb 2016

China Set to Lower Carbon Emission without Hindering Economic Growth

A new study co-authored by an MIT professor shows that China’s new efforts to price carbon could lower the country’s carbon dioxide emissions significantly without impeding economic development over the next three decades.

10 Feb 2016

UCLA-Led Team Reports Damages Caused to Ecosystem Due to Movement of Non-Native Plants

A UCLA-led study examining whether plant species in California have shifted to higher elevations, possibly in response to climate change, discovered that non-native plants are moving fastest, altering and potentially damaging ecosystems.

9 Feb 2016

Climate Change Responsible for Extraordinary Spread of Kuhl's Pipistrelle Bat Across Europe

Climate change is most likely behind the extraordinary spread of a type of vesper bat across Europe over the last four decades. Kuhl's pipistrelle has extended its range by nearly 400 percent, says Leonardo Ancillotto, lead author of a study supervised by Danilo Russo of the University of Naples Federico II in Italy, in Springer’s journal The Science of Nature. It is the first to record a range expansion for bats on such a continental scale.

9 Feb 2016

Study Results Provide Long View on Global Temperature and Sea Level Rise

The damaging climate consequences of carbon emissions will grow and persist for millennia without a dramatic new global energy strategy, according to a new set of research-based climate change scenarios developed by an international team of scientists.

9 Feb 2016

Study Reveals Long Term Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on Climate Change

The Earth may suffer irreversible damage that could last tens of thousands of years because of the rate humans are emitting carbon into the atmosphere.

9 Feb 2016

Countries Emitting Least Amount of Greenhouse Gases More Vulnerable to Climate Change Effects

A new study by University of Queensland and WCS shows a dramatic global mismatch between nations producing the most greenhouse gases and the ones most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

8 Feb 2016

Dartmouth College-led Study Shows How Frost Induced by Climate Change Affects Early Plant Reproduction

Climate change may harm early-flowering plants not through plant-pollinator mismatch but through frost damage, a Dartmouth College-led study shows.

8 Feb 2016

JRC Scientists Reveal Biophysical Effects of Forest Losses

An article by JRC scientists published today in Science, reveals that the biophysical effects of forest losses substantially affect the local climate by altering the average temperature and even more the maximum summer temperatures and the diurnal and annual variations. These effects are most obvious in arid zones, followed by temperate, tropical and boreal zones.

8 Feb 2016