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Global warming may push seaweeds over the edge

Warming ocean waters could force hundreds of Australian seaweed species to shift southward in search of cooler waters, and eventually, force them off Australia's continental shelf, and possibly into extinction, according to a study. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Global warming may reroute evolution

The research focused on the effects of elevated carbon dioxide on common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca. Milkweed is one of many plants that produce toxic or bitter chemical compounds to protect themselves from being eaten by insects. These [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Global Warming and Melting Ice

“If this were to go, sea levels worldwide would go up 20 feet,” says former Vice-President Al Gore in his global warming documentary slide show. An Inconvenient Truth (2006). Gore was talking about what would happen if the West [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Come clean on global warming

Almost exactly two years ago I arrived in the most pristine place on Earth. Antarctica in all its untouched whiteness and dazzling beauty was awe-inspiring. My three weeks there with British scientists persuaded me climate change was r [...]

Posted On : Dec, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

Copenhagen climate summit - what is global warming?

Early in the twentieth century the prevailing notion was that people could alter climates locally, for example cutting down forests and ploughing fields, but not on a global scale. A few pioneering thinkers suggested the increasing am [...]

Posted On : Dec, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

Global warming - Our best guess is likely wrong

The study, which appears in Nature Geoscience, found that climate models explain only about half of the heating that occurred during a well-documented period of rapid global warming in Earth's ancient past. The study, which was published o [...]

Posted On : Jul, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Global warming danger threat increased

The Earth won't have to warm up as much as had been thought to cause serious consequences of global warming, including more extreme weather and increasing threats to plants and animals, says an international team of climate experts. The In [...]

Posted On : Feb, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

NASA Prepares to Launch Satellite Designed to Study Global W...

Next month, the U.S. space agency NASA will launch the first satellite designed exclusively to answer questions about the distribution and source of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is largely responsible for global warming. Scienti [...]

Posted On : Jan, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Global warming hitting all of Antarctica: scientists

Scientists on Wednesday unveiled evidence to suggest global warming is affecting all of Antarctica, home to the world's mightiest store of ice. The average temperature across the White Continent has been rising for the last half century an [...]

Posted On : Jan, 22 2009 | Comments : 0

What warming? Climate change slips among global priorities

An over view of Cachet 2 lake, about 1,700 kilometers south of Santiago, in the east of North Ice Camp, Chile 17 June 2008. The lake lost about 200.000 million liters of water due to the high temperatures from 6-7 April 2008. The water leak [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

Global-Warming Study Weighs Impact of Human Action

A new study says humans have changed the world's environment more by warming the climate than by directly encroaching on habitats. The research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, also establishes a link between climate change an [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2008 | Comments : 0

A Shift in the Debate Over Global Warming

The charged and complex debate over how to slow down global warming has become a lot more complicated. Most of the focus in the last few years has centered on imposing caps on greenhouse gas emissions to prod energy users to conserve or sw [...]

Posted On : Apr, 07 2008 | Comments : 0

Physics students gird for a global battle

Five of America's top young physics minds are scheduled to touch down in Iran in four days, and they're training up to the bitter end. The last three days have been spent holed up in the physics labs at the University of Maryland. They woul [...]

Posted On : Jul, 13 2007 | Comments : 0

Global Warming Myths and Facts

Global Warming has long been an issue to individuals as well as authorities. Global Warming has been taking place ever since the Earth was created. However, the growing amount of global warming today has forced people to pay attention to [...]