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Society Has to Become More Responsive to Global Temperature Change

Scientists at the Lancaster University in UK have asserted that society will have to respond more actively to address the damages and risks associated with increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

19 Jul 2012

Irish Continental Shelf Helps Reveal Climate History of North East Atlantic Region

In a workshop on the topic ‘The Impact of Ice Sheet and Ocean Interactions on Climate Change’ at the Euroscience Open Forum 2012 conference conducted in Dublin, Dr Paul Dunlop, a scientist at the University of Ulster, discussed about how the Irish continental shelf, a perfectly preserved ice age landscape, may help uncover the climatic history of the north east Atlantic region and foresee the response of polar icesheets towards future global warming.

18 Jul 2012

Global Warming Negatively Impacts Lakes

According to Thomas Posch, a limnologist at the University of Zurich, changes in nutrient ratios and water temperature, the two key lake properties, are a major issue that triggers the growth of adverse Burgundy blood algae and affects natural clean-ups of lakes in recent decades.

18 Jul 2012

Climate Scientists Repurpose Cold War Research Laboratories

Testing of nuclear weapons may appear to have little link with climate change research, but today, climate scientists have adapted key Cold War research laboratories as well as the science utilized to model nuclear bomb blasts and trace radioactivity. SAGE has published the research report in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

16 Jul 2012

Ocean Enriched With CO2 Will Favor Growth of Cyanobacteria

Researchers belonging to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) and Princeton University have together conducted a study on the impact of climate change on bacteria.

11 Jul 2012

Geochemical Feasibility of Aquifer Rocks for CO2 Sequestration

Geologists at Kansas State University are part of a statewide study to test the feasibility of aquifer rocks for permanent storage of CO2. Production of CO2 has been associated with climate change.

10 Jul 2012

Scientists Calculate Long-Term Cooling Trend Over the Past Two Millennia

The journal, Nature Climate Change has published a study related to climate reconstruction in northern Europe over the past 2,000 years. An international research team has calculated the cooling trend over the period. These findings are important for the present climate policy.

10 Jul 2012

Teagasc and FACCE – JPI Organize ‘The Great Debate on the Battle to Feed a Changing Planet’

Teagasc, the agriculture and food development authority in Ireland, and the EU Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE – JPI), have jointly arranged a scientific session - ‘The Great Debate on the Battle to Feed a Changing Planet.’

7 Jul 2012

Navistar Announces Advanced Clean Engine Technology To Meet Emissions Regulations

Navistar International Corporation today announced that it will introduce its next generation clean engine solution – In-Cylinder Technology Plus (ICT+) – to meet 2010 U.S.

6 Jul 2012

Atmospheric Scientists Release First "bottom-up" Estimates of China's CO2 Emissions

Atmospheric scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Nanjing University have produced the first "bottom-up" estimates of China's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, for 20...

6 Jul 2012