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Watch Venice's Acqua Alta Tomorrow!

2 hours ago from Scientific Blogging

Tomorrow morning Venice will sink under a maximum tide predicted to reach 1.30 meters above average sea level. The event will occur at 8.35AM, a time when Venetian residents are...

McCartney makes meat CO2 appeal

Sir Paul McCartney urges people to cut out meat consumption one day a week to reduce CO2 emissions.

Traditional indigenous fire management techniques deployed against climate change

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A landmark Australian project that mitigates the extent and severity of natural savannah blazes by deploying traditional Indigenous fire management techniques is being hailed as a model with vast global...

Europe's post-Soviet greening — gains and failures

4 hours ago from Newsvine

Twenty years ago, when the Iron Curtain came down, the world gagged in horror as it witnessed firsthand the ravages inflicted on nature by the Soviet industrial machine.

Venezuela turns to cloud-seeding to battle drought

4 hours ago from Physorg

(AP) -- Hugo Chavez says he is starting to "bombard" clouds now that Cuba has provided Venezuela with cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the...

Leaders say momentum building on climate change

4 hours ago from Physorg

(AP) -- Leaders of the Commonwealth countries called Saturday for a legally binding international agreement on climate change and a global fund with billions of dollars to help poor...

Leaked emails won't harm UN climate body, says chairman

5 hours ago from The Guardian - Science

Rajendra Pachauri says there is 'virtually no possibility' of a few scientists biasing IPCC's advice, after UAE hacking breachThere is "virtually no possibility" of a few scientists biasing the advice given to governments...

Peat fires drive temperatures up: Burning rainforests release huge amounts of greenhouse gases

17 hours ago from Science Daily

The forested peatlands of the tropics store vast amounts of carbon. Forest fires convert this into the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Scientists have now quantified these emissions and shown that...

Climate change: Gulf stream collapse could be like a disaster movie

22 hours ago from The Guardian - Science

Scientists predict an ice age could be provoked in a matter of monthsThe next Ice Age could take only weeks to engulf Britain. Scientists say the last great disruption to the Gulf...

Australia Welcomes Giant Panda Pair

1 day ago from CBSNews - Science

Bears from China Greeted With Welcoming Parade, Bamboo and Police Escort to Adelaide Zoo

Carbon offsetting 'not working'

The first travel firm to offer consumer carbon offset schemes says they are a "distraction" from the urgency of climate change.

Hacked E-Mail Data Prompts Calls for Changes in Climate Research

1 day ago from NY Times Science

Some scientists fear that public confidence in scientific conclusions on climate change has been damaged just as countries prepare to curb greenhouse gases.

At Odds Over Land, Money and Gas

1 day ago from NY Times Science

In upstate New York, landowners’ conflict over whether to allow drilling for natural gas has set neighbor against neighbor, even spouse against spouse.

US and China to reduce emissions, but not enough

1 day ago from Newsvine

Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what...

Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's Amazon fight

1 day ago from Newsvine

Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.

Academic questions 'green' initiatives on cutting carbon footprint

1 day ago from Science Daily

Global carbon markets may well have been hailed as the savior of the planet by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but in many ways they are doing more harm than good,...

New radar helps monitor site of century-old tragedy

2 days ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Alberta researcher has turned the site of a southern Alberta rockslide tragedy into the proving ground for new equipment meant to avert such a disaster...

Australia's wine industry in peril from climate change

2 days ago from The Guardian - Science

Research by Macquarie University alerts Australian wine growers to consider new varieties of grapes to fend off the impact of climate change A two year study of the $A 1bn (£554m) Hunter...

The science and magic of breadmaking

2 days ago from The Guardian - Science

As winter sets in, warm your senses by baking your own fresh bread. Andy Connelly guides you through the magical process that turns flour and water into heavenly foodWhen I think of...

Indonesia rejects Bali plan for turtle sacrifices

2 days ago from Physorg

(AP) -- Indonesia has rejected a push by the resort island of Bali for rare turtles to be legally slain in Hindu ceremonies, siding with conservationists of the protected...

Watch on Euronews: Climate change and satellites

2 days ago from European Space Agency

Climate change is worrying the most influential leaders on the planet. A major conference on the subject will be held in December in Copenhagen.

Climate change threatens North's infrastructure: report

Canada's North is at risk and unprepared to deal effectively with the threat climate change poses to the region's roads, buildings, waste sites and other other critical infrastructure, according to...

Marine ecosystems get a climate form guide

2 days ago from Physorg

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first-ever Australian benchmark of climate change impacts on marine ecosystems and options for adaptation is being released in Brisbane today.

New climate targets may not change daily life much

2 days ago from Physorg

(AP) -- Americans' day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts...

In Greenland, warming fuels dream of hidden wealth

2 days ago from AP Science

TASIILAQ, Greenland (AP) -- Gert Ignatiussen returns to this fjord-front Inuit town with the spoils of his hunting trip. Six seals, all killed with a single...

Brazil Seeks West’s Aid on Amazon

2 days ago from NY Times Science

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil said that rich Western nations should pay to prevent deforestation in the Amazon rain forest.

Feature: Core data on climate

2 days ago from Science Alert

Australia's Great Barrier Reef doesn't only house marine species, but thousands of years of climate records.

Opinion: Emissions targets - think globally not nationally

2 days ago from Science Alert

A 'Global Commons Rent' is a fair and efficient means of putting a price on greenhouse gas emissions, writes Stephen Jones.