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Penguin: an Alternative Bio-indicator to Monitor Climate Change

We are used to hearing about the effects of climate change in terms of unusual animal behavior, such a...whether they can be used to monitor the effects of climate change. “If penguins are travelling further or diving deeper for food, that tells us something ab...

Latest IPCC Report Highlights Need for Integrated Climate/human Behavior Models

Adapting to the global climate change impacts outlined in the IPCC's Working Grou...es not only continued development of sophisticated climate models (and understanding the processes behind them) but also a new integration of those models with...

Lake Superior in US Losing Ice Cover Fast, Signaling Global Warming

...ake Superior has been warming even faster than the climate around it since the late 1970s. Its ice cover could completely vanish by the winter of 2040//, according to a study by professors at the University of Minnesota Duluth.A popular tourist spot,it is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface ...

Bhutan Leads the World in Preserving the Environment

...struggles to come to grips with global warming and climate change, the small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan// may be about to show the way ahead. Bhutan is set to become the first nation in the world where the citizens will have a constitutional obligation to preserve the environment, according to the United ...

India's Water Availability Will Decline by 2050

...ill drop by almost 38 percent by 2050, a report on climate change said Tuesday. // According to the fourth a...ssessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC), gross per capita water availability in the country will decline from 1,820 cubic mete...

Kolkata, Mumbai to Face Maximum Brunt of Climate Change

...ation //potential, says an international report on climate change. According to the fourth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the rise in sea level and flooding of villages would become a regular affair in the near future. "Since Mumbai has reclaimed ocean land subs...

Protecting Oceans is Important to Keeping Planet Cool

...n if we are to support the global effort to tackle climate change,' said IUCN director general Julia Marton-L...d areas (MPAs) and how marine reserves can counter climate change and other threats to the marine environment. Currently, only one percent of the world's oce...

Climate Change Threatens Sundarbans and World Heritage Sites

...on. Additional sources of stress, not related to climate change, include the diversion of upstream freshwat... in 1987 and 1997 respectively. Underlining that climate change will constitute one of the major challenges of the 21st century, UNESCODirector General Ko?ch...

US Professor Helping India Deal With Global Warming

...ies facing the most dramatic consequences of world climate change. The team led by Twilley, director of the...d to increase in number and severity if the global climate situation remains unchanged. The recent unprecedented growth of the Indian economy and population ...

Norwegian Glacier Shrinks and Marine Life Poisoned as the Globe Warms

...age, with or without global warming. Still, U.N. climate experts says the Arctic is heating up faster than ...er, has clearly accelerated in recent years. Two climate activists studying the region stripped off to swimming costumes and sat on the ice by the fjord to h...

Resistance to Anti-HIV Drugs in Uganda Developed Due to Drug Supply Problems

...ns Center at San Francisco General Hospital. The climate in Uganda has changed since the study took place between September 2002 and April 2004. At that time, most patients paid for antiretroviral therapy. Today, most HIV patients are receiving drugs supplied for free by either PEPFAR—the U.S. President’s ...

Study Focus on Environmental Hazards Posed by IT Scraps

When people think of climate change, they usually focus on cars or factories. Yet a study commissioned by chipmaker AMD has shown that 14 large-scale //power production plants must run worldwide just to provide electricity to computer centers. Then there are millions of PCs in ...

Experts Congregate for UN Climate Summit in Bangkok

The world's leading climate experts and state representatives from 150 nations gathered in Bangkok Monday for a five-day meet on the UN's recommendations for curbing// carbon emissions to slow global warming. "The time is now," said Chartree Chueytrasit, deputy permanent secr...

Global Warming 55 Million Years Ago Too, Thanks to Fossil Fuels

...lobal warming episode. And just like the today’s climate change, that global warming too started with fossi...arbon into the atmosphere and heated up the global climate to what scientists call the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). At the height of the PETM, se...

West Wants Developing Countries to Cut Down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

...y linked disease severity to ocean temperature and climate change. It was the European Union that called o... on global warming this year. Tom van Ierland, a climate change expert with the European Union, said cooperation from developing countries is essential to th...

Capricious Climate in Indonesia Adds to Farmers’ Wo

...to them. One farmer said, "We weren't told about climate change and the only news we received from local of...s will happen every five years. I don't understand climate change, but I do know that a big flood will come every five years." Senior adviser to Indonesia's ...

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

...whelming size and abstract nature of the concept - climate - dwarf any idea that an individual could have an ...chological behavior to repress the consequences of climate change, Ernst said in an interview. "We are, well, a little like rats, programmed by evolution to ...

Climate Talks Reach Consensus in Bangkok

... at the technical summary, it says we can save the climate by only spending 0.1 percent of GDP per year," Han... Change Programme, told reporters Thursday. Many climate experts claim the costs of saving the planet are miniscule compared with global warming's potential ...

Environmental Problems Take Huge Toll of Lives Across the Globe

...actors, UV radiation, noise, agricultural methods, climate and ecosystem change, the constructed environment and people's behavior." This means that deaths and injuries as a result of road accidents, for example, are also taken into account....

Arnie Wants to Team Up With Blair to Fight Global Warming

...nister Tony Blair in the next fortnight to discuss climate change. The California Governor wanted to work ... star had also hailed Blairs efforts to bring in a climate change bill three months ago, calling the prime minister an "action hero". Schwarzenegger, known a...

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