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Testing times for geoengineering Feb 8, 2010

Solar-radiation measurement techniques would be impossible to trial on small scale, say scientists

Sustainable Futures

Climate emails: were they really hacked or just sitting in cyberspace?

Slack security or subversion at the university may have led to 'unintentional sharing', making the police investigation pointless (from the Guardian)

Cutting California's transport emissions

Scientists analyse amount of bioethanol required to meet state's Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Lasers zap fusion doubts at NIF

First results at the National Ignition Facility delight researchers

One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars – not people, new figures show

New analysis of 2009 US Department of Agriculture figures suggests biofuel revolution is impacting on world food supplies (from the Guardian)

Protecting against climate change could cost nothing

Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions will bring air quality benefits that offset the amount spent on the cuts, says study

Jobs

Assistant Professor/Environmental Studies - Ashland, OR

Posting date: Feb 9, 2010
Ashland, OR, United States

Chair in Coastal Studies - Burnaby, BC

Posting date: Feb 4, 2010
Burnaby, B.C., Canada

Research Assistant: Data Manager - Lafayette, LA

Posting date: Feb 4, 2010
Lafayette, LA, United States

Post-doc: Wildlife populations, Amazonian indigenous people, and cultural change - Syracuse, NY

Posting date: Feb 4, 2010
Syracuse, NY, United States

Postdoctoral Position in Ecosystem Ecology - Uppsala, Sweden

Posting date: Feb 3, 2010
Closing date: Mar 31, 2010
Uppsala, Sweden

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Pacific Decadal Oscillation likely to slow warming in Pacific

Improved forecasting of decadal changes reveals good news for the equatorial Pacific and the west coasts of America but bad news for East Asia

Insight: warming and glacier shrinking in the Tibetan Plateau

Significant warming is causing change in the cryosphere

Ozone from Asia hits American West Coast

Springtime levels of pollutant in free troposphere rise most strongly when air comes from South and East Asia

Cyclone model forecasts more Katrina-like storms

Hurricanes less frequent but more intense with Atlantic warming, say researchers

Water vapour caused one-third of global warming in 1990s, study reveals

Scientists have underestimated the role that water vapour plays in determining global temperature changes (from the Guardian)

Insight: summer drought in north-east China depends on precipitation frequency

Study reveals that drier soil is linked with lower rates of precipitation

Traffic fumes increase the risks of child pneumonia

Top consultant announces breakthrough study (from the Guardian)

Carbon-cycle feedback smaller, but still positive

Scientists closer to understanding key piece of climate-change puzzle

Taking the sting out of the honeybee controversy

New framework for assessing scientific evidence clarifies arguments over cause of French honeybee declines

Ocean acidification could limit iron supply

Phenomenon likely to cut marine phytoplankton numbers in iron-limited regions