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Climate engineering may save coral reefs, study shows

Climate engineering may save coral reefs, study shows

Geoengineering of the climate may be the only way to save coral reefs from mass bleaching, according to new research. Coral reefs are considered one of the most vulnerable ecosystems to futu... Read more

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Global warming reduces wheat production markedly if no adaptation takes place

Global warming reduces wheat production markedly if no adaptation takes place

Future global wheat harvest is likely to be reduced by six per cent per each degree Celsius of local temperature increase if no adaptation takes place. Worldwide this would correspond to 42... Read more

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Climate Tools Seek to Bend Nature’s Path

Climate Tools Seek to Bend Nature’s Path

The solution to global warming, Olaf Schuiling says, lies beneath our feet. For Dr. Schuiling, a retired geochemist, climate salvation would come in the form of olivine, a green-tinted miner... Read more

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Small algae with great potential

Small algae with great potential

Unique laboratory experiment shows rapid evolutionary adaptation to ocean acidification and warming The single most important calcifying algae of the world’s oceans is able to simultaneously... Read more

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Coal: The fuel of the future, unfortunately

Coal: The fuel of the future, unfortunately

A cheap, ubiquitous and flexible fuel, with just one problem WHAT more could one want? It is cheap and simple to extract, ship and burn. It is abundant: proven reserves amount to 109 years o... Read more

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Climate change: Apocalyptish

Climate change: Apocalyptish

Climate change is having an impact in every ecosystem, from equator to pole and from ocean to mountain. “THE four horsemen of the apocalypse”: that was the disparaging appraisal by Ric... Read more

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Scientists Warn That Warming ‘Will be Hard to Reverse’

Scientists Warn That Warming ‘Will be Hard to Reverse’

A Swiss-American team of scientists has looked far into the future and calculated that the present lukewarm plans to limit climate change may involve too little action, applied too late. Tho... Read more

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Brazil Faces Drop in Crop Productivity

Brazil Faces Drop in Crop Productivity

One of the world’s major producers of food needs to adapt its farming practices for climate change Higher temperatures, drastic changes in rainfall, lower productivity, more blight and... Read more

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‘Street-view’ comes to the world’s coral reefs

'Street-view' comes to the world’s coral reefs

Scientists are taking the public with them to study the world’s coral reefs, thanks to 360 degree panoramas from Google’s underwater street-view format. Results from this pioneering pr... Read more

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Even farm animal diversity is declining as accelerating species loss threatens humanity

Even farm animal diversity is declining as accelerating species loss threatens humanity

The accelerating disappearance of Earth’s species of both wild and domesticated plants and animals constitutes a fundamental threat to the well-being and even the survival of humankind... Read more

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Climate change may be catastrophic to a third of all animals on Earth

Climate change may be catastrophic to a third of all animals on Earth

More than half of common plant species and a third of animals could see a serious decline in their habitat range. A new study published in Nature Climate Change suggests that if nothing is d... Read more

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Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies

Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies

And, the scientists say, they are already seeing the harmful effects in some regions. Climate change will pose sharp risks to the world’s food supply in coming decades, potentially undermini... Read more

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New method could help communities plan for climate risk

New method could help communities plan for climate risk

MIT researchers develop tool to assess regional risks of climate change, potential impacts on local infrastructure and planning. Climate scientists cannot attribute any single weather event... Read more

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Biodiversity Crisis Is Worse Than Climate Change

Biodiversity Crisis Is Worse Than Climate Change

Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world.   The challenges of conserving the world’s species are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of global c... Read more

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Major New Analysis Confirms That Global Warming Is Real

Major New Analysis Confirms That Global Warming Is Real

Global warming is real Global warming is real, according to a major study released Oct. 20. Despite issues raised by climate change skeptics, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study fin... Read more

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