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Wednesday, Jan 27
Texas grasslands to become climate classroom
The prairies and woodlands of North Texas soon will become part of a project to increase scientists' understanding of climate change, biodiversity, species and pollution. The Caddo-LBJ National Grasslands will join the National Ecological Observatory Network, a series of 20 eco-cl...
Tuesday, Jan 26
Ancient rainforests resilient to climate change
Climate change wreaked havoc on the Earth’s first rainforests but they quickly bounced back, scientists reveal. The findings of the research team, led by Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from Royal Holloway, University of London, are based on spectacular discoveries of 300-million-year-old r...
Tuesday, Jan 19
IPCC to review Himalayan glacier claim
The chief of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said today that it would investigate claims that the group's 2007 report made an erroneous claim that the Himalayan glaciers were receding faster than in any other part of the world and could "disappear altogether b...
Monday, Jan 18
UN agency highlights potential to fight climate change with grasslands
Properly managed grasslands – even more than forests – could fight climate change by absorbing and storing carbon dioxide
Tuesday, Dec 29
Climate Wizard Makes Large Databases of Climate Information Visual, Accessible
A Web tool that generates color maps of projected temperature and precipitation changes using 16 of the world's most prominent climate-change models is being used to consider such things as habitat shifts that will affect endangered species, places around the world where crops could...
Monday, Dec 21
African Leaf-Eating Primates ‘Likely to Be Wiped Out’ by Climate Change
Monkey species will become 'increasingly at risk of extinction' because of global warming, according to new research, published this week. It reveals that populations of monkeys and apes in Africa that depend largely on a diet of leaves may be wiped out by a rise in annual temperatures of...
Fisheries and Aquaculture Face Multiple Risks from Climate Change
A new report, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, predicts "an ocean of change" for fishers and fish farmers. It concludes that urgent adaptation measures are required in response to opportunities and threats to food and livelihood provisio...
