Himalayan glaciers feed rivers and lakes across South Asia that more than a billion people depend upon for fresh water. It’s for this reason – and the fact that many have experienced rapid changes in recent decades – that scientists keep an e...

Imagine that all the aerosols (the miniscule particles of pollution, dust, sea salt, and many other things) floating around in the air over the United States suddenly disappeared. What would their absence mean for the climate? Loretta Mickley, a clim...

PRINT EMAIL Some reports have been quick to link floods in Thailand to climate change JOHANNESBURG, 9 November 2011 (IRIN) - This has been an eventful year for natural calamities - drought in the Horn of Africa, floods yet again in Pakistan...

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 ...

"This study shows that the urban heat island effect is a relatively minor contributor to warming, contrary to what climate skeptics have claimed," says Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering. (Credit: iStockphoto) STANFORD (...

The Arctic sea ice extent fell to 1.67 million square miles, pictured in white, on Sept. 9. The area is more than 1 million square miles below the 1979-2000 monthly average extent for September (orange line)—an area larger than Texas and California ...

Press Release 11-183First Global Picture of Greenhouse Gases Emerges from Pole-to-Pole Research Flights Three-year series of scientific missions from Arctic to Antarctic produces new views of atmospheric chemistry NSF's Gulfstream V aircraft, or HIA...

Human influence on the 21st century climate: 1 possible future for the atmosphere Public release date: 5-Aug-2011[ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Mary Beckmanmary.beckman@pnnl.gov509-375-3688DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory New results from t...

Biofuel crops, like sugarcane, are best located on land that is already used for agriculture because less carbon is released into the atmosphere by converting land where existing vegetation contains low amounts of carbon, such as pasture or crops, tha...

James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Pushker Kharecha, Karina von Schuckmann Improving observations of ocean temperature confirm that Earth is absorbing more energy from the sun than it is radiating to space as heat, even during the recent solar minimum. This ...

by Michael A. Livermore. In a recent House Energy and Commerce Committee climate hearing, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) jokingly asked if some of his fellow colleagues were going to overturn the law of gravity, “sending us floating about the room...

Data that scientists have extracted from ice cores in places like Greenland have provided some of the most compelling evidence that the climate is rapidly warming. But it's not a widely understood concept, simple as the fundamentals of the process ar...

The A-Train series of satellites collecting aerosol information; Image via NASA Last month, we reported on the Glory Satellite from NASA. Intended to measure airborn grit from volcanoes, forest fires, smokestacks and tailpipes, the satellite, named G...

by Robert Stavins. California Gov. Jerry Brown plans to move forward with the implementation of Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32), the Global Warming Solutions Act, under which California seeks to take dramatic steps to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions....

(Princeton University, Engineering School) Princeton University engineers have developed a new laser sensing technology that may allow soldiers to detect hidden bombs from a distance and scientists to better measure airborne environmental pollutants an...

(University of Calgary) Researchers at the University of Calgary believe they have discovered evidence to support massive volcanic eruptions burnt significant volumes of coal, producing ash clouds that had broad impact on global oceans.

U. MICHIGAN (US) — Decreases in the Earth’s snow and ice cover have exacerbated global warming more than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed satellite data showing snow and ice during the past three decades in the...

BOULDER—The magnitude of climate change during Earth’s deep past suggests that future temperatures may eventually rise far more than projected if society continues its pace of emitting greenhouse gases, a new analysis concludes. The study, by Na...

A pistol at the shooting range. Paper targets, not turbines. Credit: Foxtongue via Flickr. So I heard a TV news report about gunfire that shut down a wind turbine park in Michigan's Thumb. And I went looking for more information on the Internet. It wa...

The Vancouver Sun is reporting that "billionaire Bill Gates is funding experiments to explore using "artificial" ...

Fernando del Mundo, Philippine Daily Inquirer, writes: "Ernesto Castillo never had it so good until Mt. Pinatubo erupted and forced him ...

This study from The Earth Institute at Columbia University "offers a detailed ...

According to Bloomberg.com, "Danish Climate Minister Connie ...