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“Mini-IPCC” report focuses on North America

US Climate Change Science Program releases report on abrupt climate change.

Sour future for the oceans?

Call for carbon-dioxide levels to be brought down to 350 ppm to prevent ocean acidification and huge economic losses.

Predicting the climate future

Forum for the Future suggests five likely scenarios for the world in 2050.

Moving times for wildlife

Climate change is already causing disruptions in species ranges but tropical species have fewer options than those at mid-latitudes.

Climate adaptation takes the stage

Physical and social scientists must work together to make and employ the predictions needed to inform policymaking for climate adaptation and mitigation.

Monitoring the melting of the Arctic

Liz Kalaugher joins a research ship in the Canadian Arctic to find out how microwave imaging can reveal where and how fast the ice is melting.

Climate talks continue in Ghana

Deforestation and sectoral approach prove key areas for discussion.

Renewable energy: price and policy are key

Sustainable energy resources are plentiful but exploiting them at large scales is more of a challenge, heard delegates at the WREN conference.

Going sour: protecting the oceans

Including ocean acidification worries in carbon regulation would probably lower emissions targets, say researchers.

Renewable energy investment takes off

In 2007 $148 bn was invested in clean energy and energy efficiency, says the latest report for the UN Environment Programme.

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Ice2sea: firming up the role of the ice sheets

As the Ice2sea project nears completion, David Vaughan gives an update on the latest thinking in sea-level rise.

Eating on an interconnected planet

Graham MacDonald looks at the food security issues raised by Fader et al's paper in ERL.

Greenland: an integrated approach

Researchers team up to investigate ice sheet's future

Advancing agricultural greenhouse-gas quantification

Lydia Olander, Eva Wollenberg, Francesco Tubiello and Martin Herold introduce the ERL Focus Issue

Are we heading for 6° temperature rise?

Climate scientist Kevin Anderson believes scientists at the interface of climate and policy may have used naive assumptions when modelling for a 2°C target

Telling better stories: strengthening the story in story and simulation

Eric Kemp-Benedict gives his take on Vanessa Schweizer and Elmar Kriegler's analysis in ERL of the IPCC's Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)

Rethinking wedges

In 2004 Pacala and Socolow argued that using existing technologies to deploy seven "stabilization wedges" could solve the climate problem. In light of the delay in major action, Steven Davis, Long Cao, Ken Caldeira and Martin Hoffert now reckon that at least 19 wedges, each ultimately representing 1 Gigatonne of saved carbon emissions each year, will be required, involving a "fundamental overhaul of the global energy system"

Is journalism failing on climate?

Stefan Rahmstorf discusses the latest study in ERL

Sustainable development is not dead

But it’s in need of “revitalization from the base”, heard delegates at the Cardiff International Conference on Sustainable Place Making