Climate Change News

RSS

Amazonia Climate Changes with Alterations in Atlantic Ocean Temperature

A new paper reveals that changes in the temperature of the Atlantic Ocean quickly translate into climate change in western Amazonia. North Atlantic forcing of Amazonian precipitation during the last ice age is co-authored by Dr Will Gosling of The Open University with the Florida Institute of Technology, and appears in this week’s Nature Geoscience.

3 Oct 2012

Researchers Report Rapid Climate Change in Coastal Areas

Research led by the University of Southampton and its Venetian co-workers has shown that there is 10 times more rapid increase in the sea surface temperature (SST) in the coastal regions when compared to the global average of 0.13° per decade.

1 Oct 2012

Whole Foods Market Receives 2012 EPA Green Power Leadership Award

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a 2012 Green Power Leadership Award for sustained excellence to Whole Foods Market, a food retailer, for purchasing 800 million kWh of renewable energy.

26 Sep 2012

Climate Change Cannot Be Dealt with by Restricting World Trade

Researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) believe that imposing restrictions on world trade will have little impact on climate change.

25 Sep 2012

Collaborative Research on Warming Up of Barents Sea

The Institute of Marine Research, the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Norway, and the University of Bergen researchers recently conducted a study which demonstrates the warming of northwest Barents Sea during recent years.

6 Sep 2012

Shell to Build World’s First Carbon Capture and Storage for Oil Sands

The world’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) for oil sands is to be built by Shell in Alberta, Canada. Dubbed the Quest project, Shell is undertaking the project as a representative of the owners of the Athabasca Oil Sands joint venture comprising Chevron, Marathon Oil and Shell itself.

6 Sep 2012

New Model Accurately Predicts Coastline Erosion Caused by Sea-Level Rise

A research team comprising Rosh Ranasinghe and his colleagues from TU Delft, UNESCO-IHE and Deltares has developed a new model that is capable of producing highly accurate prognoses of coastline erosion caused by sea-level rise within few minutes.

5 Sep 2012

NERC Awards £1 Million to Study Impact of Storms on River Pollution

The Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) has awarded a grant of more than £1 million to measure the impact of storms on river pollution. A consortium of scientists belonging to the National Oceanography Centre, and the universities of Southampton, East Anglia and Portsmouth has received the award.

4 Sep 2012

Comfort Laboratory are Exploring Ways to Reduce Building Energy Consumption

The Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Minister for Industry and Innovation in Australia, Greg Combet will be opening the country’s first comfort laboratory on 31, August 2012.

1 Sep 2012

Specialized Aircraft the Best Option for Delivering Solar Geoengineering Materials

Reducing the amount of sunlight that hits the Earth may help reduce the detrimental effects of climate change. Scientists have performed a study on the affordability and feasibility of delivering solar geoengineering materials into the stratosphere in order to reduce this effect.

31 Aug 2012