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Tree Rings May Underestimate Climate Response to Volcanic Eruptions
Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even absent growing seasons, according to climate researchers,...
New Reports Identify Impacts of Climate Change on World’s Highest Mountains
Findings from the most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt in Asia’s mountainous Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region — site of Mount Everest and many of the world’s tallest peaks — highlight...
Bacterial Communication Could Affect Earth’s Climate
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists have discovered that bacterial communication could have a significant impact on the planet’s climate. In the ocean, bacteria coalesce on tiny particles of carbon-rich detritus sinking through...
The Gambia One of the Countries Most Vulnerable to the Consequences of Climate Change
The Executive Director of the Gambia National Environment Agency, NEA, Momodou B. Sarr, has indicated that The Gambia is one of the countries most vulnerable to the rapacious consequences of climate change in Africa and that Banjul the capital face a...
Warmest April on Record in the UK
Provisional Met Office climate figures for April 2011 indicate that the month is the warmest on record with many parts of the UK seeing temperatures 3 to 5 °C warmer than normal. The month is also the 11th driest April in the UK. These records go back...
Correlations Found Between Movements in Earth’s Molten Core And Global Surface Air Temperatures
The latest evidence of the dominant role humans play in changing Earth’s climate comes not from observations of Earth’s ocean, atmosphere or land surface, but from deep within its molten core.
Earth Hour Evolves Beyond the Hour, Beyond the Light Switch
Earth Hour Co-Founder and Executive Director, Andy Ridley, has announced a series of high profile and individual environmental actions, and a new dynamic online platform, to mark the global launch for Earth Hour, Beyond the Hour.
Will the Rise of Wikileaks Competitors Make Whistleblowing Resistant to Censorship?
Since it began publishing a trove of classified United States Embassy cables on November 28, 2010, Wikileaks has faced an onslaught of censorship that demonstrated how online speech is vulnerable when intermediaries refuse to host contentious or unpopular...
