Science news articles about 'climate'

China called on the international community Thursday to increase the flow of technology to developing countries to help them fight climate change.

A new U.S. call for curbing greenhouse gas emissions shook up climate talks in Paris among the world's biggest polluters, with some envoys welcoming the gesture and others calling it too little, too ...

The La Nina climate phenomenon under way in the Pacific Ocean has weakened but is expected to continue at least through midsummer, government weather forecasters say.

A Sudanese climate researcher has been recognised by the UN for her adaptation work in drought-stricken Darfur.

Climate change and the carbon emissions seem inextricably linked. However, new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Carbon Balance and Management suggests that this may not ...

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) recently launched a four-year study to determine if climate change is affecting populations of a quintessential Arctic denizen: the rare musk ox. Along with ...

... scientists watched with pride when the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and a United Nations panel that spent two decades assessing Earth's changing climate.

... international scientists a close-up look at fluctuations that occurred in Antarctica's ice sheet and marine and terrestrial life as the climate cooled considerably between 20 and 14 million years ago.

... Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming struck an optimistic tone about the planet’s climate crisis last night, saying that an energy revolution is in the offing if government can ...

... lurking on the horizon as the global economic situation deteriorates, food scarcity worsens and climate change begins to affect those who were already dependent on survival economies. “The same is ...

... ,” said coauthor Richard Seager, a modeler at Lamont. Seager says that scientists studying global climate change predict many subtropical regions will dry in coming years. “That, in combination with ...

Climatologists will create decade-long climate forecasts, just as meteorologists craft weeklong weather forecasts.

... in future atmospheric composition. This strategy is appropriate for long-term changes in climate such as predictions for the end of the century. However, in order to predict short-term developments ...

Earthwatch kicks off a five-year global forest research program at the Smithsonian as part of the HSBC Climate Partnership. Over the next four years, hundreds of employees from the world's largest ...

Alok Jha and guests discuss the Earth's past climate change; and regrowing fingers using pixie dust