Changing Climate and Strategies for Managing Ecosystems

Global warming may impair the ability of ecosystems to perform vital services—such as providing food, clean water and carbon sequestration—says the nation’s largest organization of ecological scientists. In a statement released today, the Ecological Society of America (ESA) outlines strategies that focus on restoring and maintaining natural ecosystem functions to mitigate and adapt to climate [...]

Arctic could become Ice-free and Warmer

Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions and much warmer temperatures in the future, the findings of a new research suggests. Examining past climate conditions, scientists documented evidence that the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas were too warm to support summer sea ice during the mid-Pliocene warm period (3.3 to 3 million years ago). This period [...]

Climate Change : Trillions of Dollars in Assets at Risk in U.S. Coasts

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Allianz SE on Monday released a report warning that sea level rise could dramatically increase risks to buildings, transportation infrastructure and other assets exposed to severe storm surges in coastal areas of the U.S. The report estimates that current assets at risk to a 1-in-100-year storm surge amount to $1.4 [...]

Reality of Global Warming Research exposed!

It is reported that a group of hackers have broken into the email system at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and published the sensitive data online. The 61 megabites of confidential file released onto the Internet reportedly contains some misleading information on the basis of which CRU has been accused of [...]

Greenland Ice Melting at a Faster Rate

Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is melting at an accelerating rate. According to a new study in journal ‘Science’,  this mass loss is equally distributed between increased iceberg production, driven by acceleration of Greenland’s fast-flowing outlet glaciers, and increased meltwater production at the [...]

Ecuadorian innovative plan to save Rainforest, reduce Greenhouse gas Emissions

An innovative proposal, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, by the Ecuadorian government to protect an untouched, oil rich region of Amazon rainforest is a precedent-setting and potentially economically viable approach, says a team of environmental researchers from the University of Maryland, the World Resources Institute and Save America’s Forests.
The Yasuni-ITT Initiative would protect a large [...]

United Nations expect strong US action on Global Warming

The United Nations’ top climate change official said Wednesday he expected the United States to table concrete proposals against global warming at December’s Copenhagen climate conference. The US Senate was expected to reach an agreement on a law proposal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the coming week, Yvo de Boer quoted a Senate foreign [...]

Arctic Ocean may be Ice-free in 30 years

The Arctic Ocean will lose its ice cover in the next 30 years, says a new study. It will happen a bit faster than earlier predictions. Thanks to global warming. Earlier scientists had predicted that the ice cover will melt in 100 years.

New research suggests the Arctic Ocean is already edging towards this grim reality, [...]

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