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Carbon dioxide emissions show record jump

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

Warming might extend the growing season of plants and thus accelerate nutrient cycling

Insight: linking Eurasian snow to precipitation in China

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

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"

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

Climate conference ends in agreement after two weeks of talks (from the Guardian)

Insight: Could giant wind farms be used to engineer the weather?

Modelling indicates giant wind farm increases rain by an average of 1%

Insight: Shale gas emissions similar to conventional gas

But extraction processes for shale gas add to greenhouse gas emissions

Apple hopes to turn green with solar power data centre

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

Urbanized land will increase by 590,000 square miles globally, say researchers

Industrial pollution 'costs UK billions each year'

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

New model is more intuitive, say physicists

Rate of global warming 'remarkably steady' since 1979

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

Climate-change models predict larger and stronger storms in the future

Despite warm autumn, 2011 temperatures fail to reach record highs

This year was only the 11th warmest on record, but figures confirm overall warming trend (from the Guardian)

Insight: Arctic feedbacks could weaken

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

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

Patterned devices detect extremely toxic nitrogen dioxide at low levels

Floating-axis wind turbine could cut offshore costs

Easy-maintenance design tilts according to wind strength

Salt marshes confirmed as carbon sink

Even when emissions of methane and nitrous oxide are included, two locations in Canada act as net greenhouse-gas sink