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Dating an ancient episode of severe global warming
ScienceDaily (June 16, 2011) — Using sophisticated methods of dating rocks, a team including University of Southampton researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, have pinned down the timing of the start of an episode of an ancient global warming known as the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), with implications for the triggering mechanism.The early … Continue reading
Global warming may increase the capacity of trees to store carbon
ScienceDaily (May 31, 2011) — One helpful action anyone can take in response to global warming is to plant trees and preserve forests. Trees and plants capture carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, thereby removing the most abundant greenhouse gas from the atmosphere and storing some of it in their woody tissue.Yet global warming may affect the … Continue reading
Will global climate change enhance boreal forest growth?
ScienceDaily (May 16, 2011) — With an increasingly warmer climate, there is a trend for springs to arrive earlier and summers to be hotter. Since spring and summer are the prime growing seasons for plants — when flowers bloom and trees increase in girth and height — do these climate changes mean greater seasonal growth … Continue reading
Shootingstars provide clues to likely response of plants to global warming
ScienceDaily (May 3, 2011) — Both migration and evolution played a role in the adaptation of shootingstars to warmer temperatures after the last ice age. Many scientists are concerned that plant and animal species may face extinction due to global warming, but biologists at Washington University in St. Louis are trying to predict exactly what … Continue reading
US farmers dodge the impacts of global warming — at least for now
ScienceDaily (May 8, 2011) — Global warming is likely already taking a toll on world wheat and corn production, according to a new study led by Stanford University researchers. But the United States, Canada and northern Mexico have largely escaped the trend.“It appears as if farmers in North America got a pass on the first … Continue reading
Swedish think-tank: Global arms spending slows
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The world’s military spending grew by only 1.3 percent in 2010, thanks to budget constraints caused by the global financial crisis, with the top three arms investors being the United States, China and Britain, a think–tank said Monday.South America was the region with the largest military spending growth of 5.8 percent, with … Continue reading
Earth recovered from prehistoric global warming faster than previously thought
ScienceDaily (Apr. 21, 2011) — Earth may be able to recover from rising carbon dioxide emissions faster than previously thought, according to evidence from a prehistoric event analyzed by a Purdue University-led team.When faced with high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and rising temperatures 56 million years ago, Earth increased its ability to pull carbon … Continue reading
Global catastrophic amphibian declines have multiple causes, no simple solution
ScienceDaily (Apr. 26, 2011) — Amphibian declines around the world have forced many species to the brink of extinction, are much more complex than realized and have multiple causes that are still not fully understood, researchers conclude in a new report.The search for a single causative factor is often missing the larger picture, they said, … Continue reading
Report reveals global climate change legislation
The news feeds on this site are independently provided by Adfero Limited © and do not represent the views or opinions of the Energy Saving Trust. A major new report has revealed the status of climate change legislation in 16 of the world’s largest economies, including the UK. It showed that legislation is being advanced … Continue reading