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A team of three Cambridge graduates are embarking on a 31-country expedition — dubbed “Atlantic Rising” — that aims to follow the contours of where the coastline will be after 100 years of rising sea levels driven by climate change. Aimed at raising awareness of the dangers of global warming, the 35,
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Tinkering with the Earth’s climate systems to minimise climate change — a process known as “geoengineering” — could have unintended consequences, including possible major disruptions to the planet’s water cycles, according to recently published research. Writing in the journal Science, climate scientists Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
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Sea ice cover in the Arctic was at its third-lowest ever this past month, and unusually clear weather and warm winds are continuing to promote ice melt, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre. It remains to be seen whether this year’s ice extent will set
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Current targets to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 aren’t likely to prevent global warming from exceeding the 2 degree C threshold for catastrophic change … and the officials who set those goals know it, according to a researcher from The Australian National University (ANU). Andrew
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If there’s nothing like an unusually snowy winter or a summertime cold spell to bring out the climate change deniers, what might a five-year global heat wave do for global warming activists? We could soon find out, as a new study to be published in the journal Geophysical Research
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Climate change could bring with it fewer low-level clouds, which could then make global warming even worse, according to research from the Met Office. A new study published in Science relied on the Met Office’s climate model as the only one which accurately reflects real-life observations. The findings support
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Here’s a great idea: let’s take an insecticidal fumigant that’s also a wildly more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and release more of it into the air than we have before. Environmental groups are arguing that’s what Dow AgroSciences (PDF) is proposing to do under
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The best way to combat climate change is for the world to adopt Japan-style policies to improve energy efficiency and decarbonise the energy supply, according to a new report from a worldwide consortium of research institutes. The report’s authors argue that approach is better than a model based on
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Add to the ever-growing list of emerging signs of climate change … shrinking sheep. Yes, Scotland’s wild sheep are apparently becoming smaller as warmer winters kill off fewer off the smaller, weaker animals, which can then go on to breed offspring. Those findings, by researchers at Imperial College London, are
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G8 countries as a whole aren’t doing enough to protect the world against climate change, but some nations are working harder than others, according to a ranking prepared by Allianz and WWF. Germany, followed by the UK and France, are the best performers, according to the new G8 Climate
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A warming climate could reverse the flow of tourists and encourage more Southern Europeans to head north, instead of the other way around. That’s the subject of a new European research project at the University of Gothenburg. The tourist industry is heavily affected by weather and climate. Researchers find
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today that the world should create a £60 billion-per-year global fund to help developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. Speaking before a group of ambassadors, green groups and business organisations gathered in London, Brown said, “The UK is determined