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Study Analyzes Processes that Influence Global Warming in Western Tropical Pacific Ocean

Using a cutting-edge research technique, UCLA researchers have reconstructed the temperature history of a region that plays a major role in determining climate around the world.

14 Mar 2014

Warm River Waters Contribute to Melting of Arctic Sea Ice

The heat from warm river waters draining into the Arctic Ocean is contributing to the melting of Arctic sea ice each summer, a new NASA study finds.

6 Mar 2014

NPL Scientists Create Synthetic Air Reference Standard to Measure Climate Change

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have produced a synthetic air reference standard which can be used to accurately measure levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. This will greatly help scientists contribute to our understanding of climate change.

5 Mar 2014

McGill Researchers Report that Ocean's Surface is Getting Steadily Less Saltier

In the mid-1970s, the first available satellite images of Antarctica during the polar winter revealed a huge ice-free region within the ice pack of the Weddell Sea. This ice-free region, or polynya, stayed open for three full winters before it closed.

3 Mar 2014

Researchers Explore Effectiveness of Adaptation Technologies Aimed at Reducing Warming from Urban Expansion

Life in a warming world is going to require human ingenuity to adapt to the new realities of Earth. Greenhouse-gas induced warming and megapolitan expansion are both significant drivers of our warming planet. Researchers are now assessing adaptation technologies that could help us acclimate to these changing realities.

12 Feb 2014

Strong Trade Winds in Pacific Ocean Keep Global Surface Warming under Check

The strongest trade winds have driven more of the heat from global warming into the oceans; but when those winds slow, that heat will rapidly return to the atmosphere causing an abrupt rise in global average temperatures.

10 Feb 2014

Water Needs and Global Warming Affect California

California being in the clutches of drought — as it is today — is nothing new. From prehistoric droughts to so-called “megadroughts” that strangled the state some 1,000 years ago, to more recent extreme dry periods in the late ’70s and early ’90s, drought happens.

30 Jan 2014

Global Climate Continues Warming Trend, Say NASA Scientists

NASA scientists say 2013 tied with 2009 and 2006 for the seventh warmest year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.

22 Jan 2014

Water Cycle Changes are Main Drivers of Environmental Change in Western Europe, New Study Reveals

The role of the hydrological cycle during abrupt temperature changes is of prime importance for the actual impact of climate change on the continents. In a new study published in Nature Geoscience online (January 19, 2014) scientists from the University of Potsdam, Germany and the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences show that during the abrupt cooling at the onset of the so-called Younger Dryas period 12680 years ago changes in the water cycle were the main drivers of widespread environmental change in western Europe.

21 Jan 2014

Scientists Call on World Leaders to Reduce Nuclear Arsenals, Combat Climate Change

The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists today called on the United States and Russia to restart negotiations on reducing their nuclear arsenals, to lower alert levels for their nuclear weapons, and to scrap their missile defense programs.

16 Jan 2014