Climate

  1. Planetary Science

    Worldwide slowdown in plant carbon uptake

    A decade of droughts has stifled the increasing growth of terrestrial vegetation.

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  2. Climate

    EPA rejects climate-change deniers’ petitions

    A number of people challenge that climate change is real, that it's due to greenhouse gases released by human activities and that it's a threat to human health and the environment. On July 29, the Environmental Protection Agency formally rejected those claims as it turned down 10 petitions asking the Obama administration to reconsider EPA’s “endangerment finding.”

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  3. Climate

    New carbon data should produce better climate forecasts

    BLOG: More refined measurements for carbon dioxide input by plants and carbon dioxide released during respiration will help models, Science News editor in chief Tom Siegfried reports from the Euroscience Open Forum 2010 in Turin, Italy.

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  4. Climate

    Methane releases in arctic seas could wreak devastation

    Warming climate could lead to dead zones, acidification and shifts at the base of the ocean’s food chain.

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  5. Animals

    Climate change may favor couch-potato elk

    With drought and rising temperatures in Wyoming, migratory animals suffer while stay-at-home members of the same herd thrive

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  6. Climate

    With warming, some commercial fish may boom and bust

    Higher temps in Arctic waters might be good for some species but not for others, new research suggests.

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  7. Climate

    Oceans warmed in recent decades

    Measurements show a trend of rising temperatures along with a leveling off since 2003.

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  8. Chemistry

    EPA issues greenhouse-gas rules for new factories and more

    EPA released new rules on greenhouse-gas emissions for new power plants, factories and oil refineries — any big new facility, really that emits huge amounts of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, or any of several other classes of chemicals. Existing facilities can continue to spew greenhouse gases at current levels.

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  9. Climate

    Alaskan peatlands expanded rapidly as ice age waned

    The rapid growth of Alaskan wetlands before 8,600 years ago was due to hotter summers and colder winters, which could spell trouble in a warmer world, a new study suggests.

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  10. Chemistry

    Methane-making microbes thrive under the ice

    Antarctica’s ice sheets could hide vast quantities of the greenhouse gas, churned out by a buried ecosystem.

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  11. Climate

    National academies to review IPCC procedures

    Global science organizations asked to help evaluate processes that produced 2007 climate report.

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  12. Climate

    Ancient Norse colonies hit bad climate times

    Temperatures in Iceland plummeted soon after settlers arrived, a new chemical analysis suggests.

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