"Visiting parks earlier may not be a big deal, but it may serve as a bellwether for more severe human adjustments required to cope with climate change," says study author Lauren Buckley, a biology professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. (Credit: iStockphoto) UN...

Man-made and natural factors, like road construction and fires, can cause a changeover from forest to savanna or vice versa. The change can happen within several decades and can be extremely difficult to reverse once it happens. (Credit: Carla Staver)...

October 27, 2011 Winter precipitation trends in the Mediterranean region for the period 1902 - 2010. High Resolution (Credit: NOAA) Wintertime droughts are increasingly common in the Mediterranean region, and human-caused climate change is partly ...

Ozone in Earth's stratosphere at an altitude of approximately 12 miles (20 kilometers) in mid-March 2011, near the peak of the 2011 Arctic ozone loss. Red colors represent high levels of ozone, while purple and grey colors (over the north polar re...

The extent to which creatures like the red-bellied newt (Taricha torosa) can withstand fluctuations in temperature during climate-induced journeys will be a crucial determinant of their ultimate survival. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) BROWN (US) — Whi...

Climate change will show which animals can take the heat Public release date: 29-Sep-2011[ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Richard LewisRichard_Lewis@brown.edu401-863-3766Brown University IMAGE: The speckled black salamander, one of the spec...

Wangari Maathai, a prominent Kenyan environmental and political activist and 2004 Nobel prize winner passed away on September 25. She was the first African woman to be awarded the prize and is recognized worldwide in the fight to protect the environment on the African continent.

Press Release 11-196Deep Oceans May Mask Global Warming for Years at a Time Computer simulations of global climate lead to new conclusions New findings on a link between oceans and global climate look at ocean depths.Credit and Larger Version Septe...

Clouds play a small role in initiating climate variations, but the "bottom line is that clouds have not replaced humans as the cause of the recent warming the Earth is experiencing," says Andrew Dessler. (Credit: iStockphoto) TEXAS A&M (US) — Cl...

(Click on images for larger view.) Jewel-like green against the desert of central Asia, the Aral Sea has a long history of change. Over thousands of years, the lake has filled and dried, its fate linked to the flow of the rivers that feed it, par...

Press Release 11-168Newly Discovered Icelandic Current Could Change Climate Picture Current called North Icelandic Jet contributes to key component of ocean circulation Northern Denmark Strait showing newly discovered deep current, in relation to kn...

Press Release 11-162Arctic Ice Melt Could Pause in Coming Decades Researchers find unexpected results in study of ice cover in the Arctic Scientists are finding some surprising results about sea ice in the Arctic.Credit and Larger Version August 11...

August 3, 2011 The direct warming influence of all long-lived greenhouse gases in the atmosphere today attributable to human activities. CO2’s warming influence of 1.7 watts/m2 is equivalent to the heat from nearly 9 trillion 100-watt incandescent ...

Each week the State of Flux features images of different locations on planet Earth, showing change over time periods ranging from centuries to days. Some of these effects are related to climate change, some are not. Some document the effects of urbaniz...

From the Society for Experimental Biology via Eurekalert, now making the rounds on websites like ScienceDaily, worrisome news that climate change will possibly, maybe, could, put the endangered Mary river turtle in Australia at further risk. Even the ...

Perception of how behavior affects the environment influences what actions people take to protect it. If they don't believe an action—like car pooling—will make a substantial difference, they are less likely to participate in it. (Credit: iStockph...

Snowpack losses across the West since the 1980s may signal a fundamental shift from precipitation to temperature as the dominant influence on snowpack in the principal mountain ranges in North America. (Credit: iStockphoto) U. WASHINGTON (US) — A do...

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Anthony Watts That’s a sign in one of the videos below. This is what college churns out these days, at least in UMass Lowell, but I’ll give them points for not wasting state funding or seeking grant money. From their ...

Readers may recall Pat Franks’s excellent essay on unceratinty in the temperature record.  He emailed me about this new essay he posted on the Air Vent, with suggestions I cover it at WUWT, I regret it got lost in my firehose of daily email. Here i...

By Valerie Smock, AccuWeather.com Broadcaster Jun 2, 2011; 12:26 PM ET This is a look at the 2005 drought in the Amazon. (Courtesy: NASA) It is easy to see the result of a dry summer on your yard, but can you imagine how reduced rainfall can affe...

A twist on the tale of Arctic development opened up by warming temperatures and melting ice: We know that oil companies are itching to explore in newly ice-free waters and that nations are already staking claims, but a new report in Nature Climate Chan...

Published: Monday, May 30, 2011 - 15:50 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) William D'Andrea, Brown University The end of the Norse settlements on Greenland likely will remain shrouded in mystery. While there is scant written ...

Image: Sierra Club Compass Saturday, 28 May 2011 16:58 Agence France-Presse DEAUVILLE, France: Russia, Japan and Canada told the G8 they would not join a second round of carbon cuts under the Kyoto Protocol at United Nations talks this year and the U...

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Anthony Watts While Joe Romm, Bill McKibben, and others follow the fear card script to do everything and anything they can to link severe weather to global warming, they are clearly fighting a losing battle for public opini...

Press Release 11-105Significant Role of Oceans in Onset of Ancient Global Cooling Evidence that early Antarctic Circumpolar Current development affected global climate Aerial view of the drillship JOIDES Resolution.Credit and Larger Version May 26,...

Published: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 11:04 in Earth & Climate A new study aimed at refining the way scientists measure ice loss in Greenland is providing a "high-definition picture" of climate-caused changes on the island. And the picture isn't pre...

Climate scientists have come together to remind those who dispute climate change that the skeptics are not climate scientists. In this video (clean version), the climate scientists rap speak for themselves. Who's a climate scientist? Watch the vide...

Press Release 11-101Big Clue to Future Climate Change in Small Plants Scientists find surprising response to higher levels of carbon dioxide in 13 species of grassland plants A wild lupine blooms at NSF's Cedar Creek Long-Term Ecological Research si...

Under all but one of 21 climate scenarios studied, Chicago heat waves are likely to be both more frequent and longer by the end of the 21st century. (Credit: Thinkstock) JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Hundreds to thousands more city residents could die by the...

Published: Monday, May 16, 2011 - 11:32 in Earth & Climate The majority of seaports around the world are unprepared for the potentially damaging impacts of climate change in the coming century, according to a new Stanford University study. In a s...