Climate science
Peru’s cloud forests could be wiped out by 2100
Fragile nature of one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems means it could be obliterated by climate change, study suggests
US coal demand destroys area size of ’10 city blocks’ an hour
Surface mining required to meet America’s coal demand equates to an area the size of Washington DC every 81 days, say scientists
Summer days ‘four times hotter’ across some parts of Europe
Scientists exploring regional impacts of climate change find summer temperatures soar in a band from southern England to Denmark
IPCC rejects Daily Mail claims it plans climate ‘crisis meeting’
UN climate science body says Mail on Sunday made up claims of a ‘crisis meeting’, maintaining plans for forthcoming AR5 report remain as normal
Gas flaring responsible for 42% of black carbon in the Arctic
Gas flaring in the Arctic, along with household stoves, contribute more to warming Arctic than previously thought
UN: global food waste emissions greater than US transport sector
Around 1.3bn tonnes of food is wasted on an annual basis say UNEP and the FAO, with serious environmental consequences
Dealing in doubt: how big oil funds climate denial
Attacks on climate science have been going on for 25 years. Greenpeace’s Cindy Baxter explains why they’re heating up ahead of the IPCC AR5 report
Mongolian Steppe munched into desert by goats and sheep
Forget coal plants and gas flaring: hungry goats are the latest threat to climate, say scientists studying the cause of degraded land in the Mongolian Steppe
Pacific flights most polluting, finds study
Researchers find that flights covering an area near the Solomon Islands produce most ozone, as EU limits its ETS to own airspace
Extreme weather in 2012 directly linked to climate change
Scientists say rising sea levels and global warming increased magnitude and likelihood of 2012 extreme weather, including Hurricane Sandy
Soot blamed for melting Alps glaciers
Scientists think they know why some European glaciers started to shrink decades before climate change had begun to raise temperatures.
Brazil climate scientists predict country could heat 3-6C by 2100
Study forming part of forthcoming IPCC climate science report says Brazil’s farmers need to work out plan to adapt to effects of climate change
US temperature rises likely to exacerbate Calfornia wildfires – study
Scientists say biggest driver for fires in USA is temperatures, indicating country will have to face more wildfires in future
IPCC chief Pachauri says climate fight “five minutes to midnight”
Humanity has ‘ignored and disregarded’ debts to nature says climate science chief in withering attack on governments
Scientists confirm Clean Air Act ‘restored ecosystems’ in USA
Despite intense criticism from businesses and power companies, scientists reveal the USA’s Clean Air Act did work
Climate change forcing crop pests to flee towards poles
Organisms which can threaten food and other crops are moving towards the poles to escape increasing heat where they live at present
Could humans cause another Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum?
The world’s marine species are liable to face 100,000 years of change, scientists say, unless greenhouse gas emissions are radically reduced
Australia’s 2010-2011 floods caused sea levels to ‘drop 7mm’
Rain fell in such colossal quantities during the Australian floods in 2010 and 2011 that the world’s sea levels actually dropped by as much as 7mm
Antarctic glaciers sensitive to climate change, research shows
Research suggests enormous East Antarctic ice sheet advances and retreats with climate change more than scientists had realised
Dung beetles reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cow pats
By drying out the dung, the beetles increase the availability of oxygen and reduce the amount of methane in the pats