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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
