Climate

Glaciers in meltdown

Glaciers are shrinking fastest in Alaska and Patagonia in South America states a new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), thinning by 35 and 25 m since 1960. Almost...

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Secrets Under The Gulf

Image © olimpiupop Image The Persian Gulf, or 'The Gulf' as it is now known, is relatively young in geological terms, being created around 8,000 years ago, probably as a...

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New Monitoring System For Tasmania's Oceans

The rich waters of the oceans surrounding Tasmania are to be monitored by a new state-of-the-art system, including autonomous undersea robotic vehicles, as scientists work to gather more information about...

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Northern Wildfires Threaten Runaway Climate Change

A new study published by the American magazine Nature Geoscience suggests that climate change is the reason why forest fires in boreal North America have been increasing year on year....

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New UN Climate Law: Protection or otherwise?

A new UN climate law, whose acronym REDD+ stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, the 'plus' referring to the protection of forest communities, is being negotiated at...

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Japan is Leading the Emissions Reduction Race

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has recently released paper in the UN Climate Summit in Cancun asking for both developed and developing nations to play an equal...

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Invasive Species and Climate Change

A recent study by the Nairobi-based Global Invasions Species Programme indicates that a combination of a warmer world, more extreme weather and higher levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide have the...

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