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Feb 3, 2012
Leading scientists, including climate change experts, complain about opinion piece akin to 'dentists practising cardiology'
Who is the new sheriff in town regulating boreal forest growth?
Jan 16, 2012
Climate change appears to be altering boreal forests. One recently observed symptom of these changes has been an apparent weakening of the positive relationship between high-latitude boreal tree growth and temperature at some sites.
Adaptation finance: How can Durban deliver on past promises?
Nov 24, 2011
There is an ever-widening chasm between the support developing countries need to adapt to climate change, and the funding promised and delivered by wealthy nations. David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, Mizan Khan, Linlang He and Spencer Fields detail three steps countries should take at the Durban negotiations, in an article prepared for IIED.
Enjoy a new perspective of the Earth
Nov 10, 2011
Earth scientist and remote-sensing expert Shannon Franks describes how there is more to NASA than space exploration
How big is your footprint?
Oct 13, 2011
Phil Marshall says the onus is on physicists to reduce their own carbon footprint
Mind over matter: public opinion and the climate and energy debates
Sep 16, 2011
The Fukushima accident has led several countries to change their policy on nuclear power, proving public opinion matters. Researcher Nick Pidgeon talked to environmentalresearchweb about public attitudes to risk, belief in climate change, how researchers should communicate to dispel "climate fatigue" and his latest project investigating public attitudes to changes in the energy system.
Wine industry must plan for climate change adaptation
Sep 9, 2011
The global wine industry is worth billions of dollars. But climate change could have a critical impact. Marc Metzger and Mark Rounsevell from the University of Edinburgh, UK, reveal more.
Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the race to cool the planet
Aug 12, 2011
Critics fear that manipulating weather patterns could have a calamitous effect on poorer countries (from the Guardian)
What's going on with the Sun?
Jul 11, 2011
Recent research suggests that the Sun could be heading into a quiet spell
Warning: extreme weather ahead
Jun 17, 2011
Tornados, wildfires, droughts and floods were once seen as freak conditions. But the environmental disasters now striking the world are shocking signs of 'global weirding' (from the Guardian)
Head in a CLOUD
May 19, 2011
News from CERN - the European Organization for Nuclear Research - tends to be dominated by the Large Hadron Collider and its hunt for fundamental particles. But the CLOUD experiment is designed to recreate processes in the atmosphere and their wider impact on Earth's climate.
The physicist who tames lightning
Mar 7, 2011
Joseph Dwyer on why we still know very little about this spectacular phenomenon
Environmental research in Brazil
Feb 10, 2011
Sugar cane and biodiversity take the lead in Brazilian environmental research
Popular books spread the word on climate change
Jan 5, 2011
Authors share worries about “sceptics” term and geoengineering
Geoengineering: the most reluctant research field?
Nov 26, 2010
Scientists at Royal Society meeting stress that geoengineering is a last resort
Hot fusion
Oct 8, 2010
Despite more than 50 years of effort, today's nuclear-fusion reactors still require more power to run than they can produce. Steve Cowley outlines the next challenges in fusion power.
Copenhagen Accord shows 'dissonant ambition'
Sep 29, 2010
Study reveals agreement unlikely to limit temperature rise to less than 2 °C
A sea of troubles
Sep 10, 2010 2 comments
Rising temperatures are putting ocean life under increasing pressure
The IPCC on trial: experimentation continues
Jul 21, 2010 1 comment
Since its inception in 1988, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been a giant experiment in the creation of authoritative public knowledge, says Mike Hulme, while the recent furore about errors in its Fourth Assessment Report has parallels to Climategate
'Climategate' shows the need for openness by scientists
Jul 13, 2010
In the age of the blogosphere, blocking facts means science is damaged and public trust lost (from the Guardian)