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Dec 21, 2011
Latest research on carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels shows they have increased by half in the last 20 years (from the Guardian)
Insight: permafrost degradation may benefit alpine grasslands
Dec 20, 2011
Warming might extend the growing season of plants and thus accelerate nutrient cycling
Insight: linking Eurasian snow to precipitation in China
Dec 19, 2011
Snow over Eurasia has decreased over recent decades – a change that is closely related to the amount of precipitation in China
Climate change insight gleaned from Yellowstone wolves
Dec 16, 2011
Scientists develop model on how various species will adapt to climate change after studying wolves in national park (from the Guardian)
Health-relevant adaptation to climate change "still in its infancy"
Dec 15, 2011
Health policy-makers need to be more engaged in climate adaptation, reveals first systematic assessment of plans
Global climate change treaty in sight after Durban breakthrough
Dec 14, 2011
Climate conference ends in agreement after two weeks of talks (from the Guardian)
Insight: Could giant wind farms be used to engineer the weather?
Dec 13, 2011
Modelling indicates giant wind farm increases rain by an average of 1%
Insight: Shale gas emissions similar to conventional gas
Dec 12, 2011
But extraction processes for shale gas add to greenhouse gas emissions
Apple hopes to turn green with solar power data centre
Dec 9, 2011
The tech giant – the least green of the big tech companies – is preparing to swap its North Carolina centre from coal to solar (from the Guardian)
Urban areas grow faster than urban population
Dec 8, 2011
Urbanized land will increase by 590,000 square miles globally, say researchers
Industrial pollution 'costs UK billions each year'
Dec 7, 2011
Health and environmental damage from industry costs up to €18bn a year, according to the European environment agency (from the Guardian)
Energy balance points to man-made climate change
Dec 7, 2011
New model is more intuitive, say physicists
Rate of global warming 'remarkably steady' since 1979
Dec 6, 2011
Analysis of five global temperature data sets, including satellite data, reveals strong agreement when response to short-term variability is removed
Insight: Korean water system faces major overhaul to withstand typhoons
Dec 5, 2011
Climate-change models predict larger and stronger storms in the future
Despite warm autumn, 2011 temperatures fail to reach record highs
Dec 2, 2011
This year was only the 11th warmest on record, but figures confirm overall warming trend (from the Guardian)
Insight: Arctic feedbacks could weaken
Dec 1, 2011
Climate change at northern high latitudes may progress at a slower pace at the end of the 21st century
Wood fires fuel climate change – UN
Nov 30, 2011
Log burning and diesel vehicles two of the biggest culprits in developed world in generating pollution causing black carbon (from the Guardian)
Advanced nanopackages capture environmental toxic agents
Nov 29, 2011
Patterned devices detect extremely toxic nitrogen dioxide at low levels
Floating-axis wind turbine could cut offshore costs
Nov 28, 2011
Easy-maintenance design tilts according to wind strength
Salt marshes confirmed as carbon sink
Nov 25, 2011
Even when emissions of methane and nitrous oxide are included, two locations in Canada act as net greenhouse-gas sink