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Ice, Ice Scraping Antarctic icebergs scraping seafloor bare more often due to climate change		18 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:14 AM on 18 Jul 2008 The warming Antarctic is changing life on the seafloor as well as above as icebergs freed from surrounding sea ice earlier than in previous years can pummel bottom-dwelling creatures for much of the year, according to a new study. "Our results suggest that as the winter sea-ice season shortens, the thousands of icebergs that float around the coastline of the Antarct ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Go With the Floe Russian researchers abandon shrinking ice floe		15 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 3:33 PM on 15 Jul 2008 Russian scientists are evacuating early from their research base on a shrinking Arctic ice floe. Last April, the floe was sturdy enough to build an air strip on. In September, 21 researchers and two dogs arrived, at which point their ice abode measured 1.2 by 2.5 miles. The researchers meant to leave in late August, but will evacuate this week from a floe that has shrunk to a mere 1,000 by 2,000 fee ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news, Russia, scientific research (all these topics)

The Smog Days of Summer (and Spring, and Fall) EPA says climate change could worsen smog levels, extend smog season		11 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 8:38 AM on 11 Jul 2008 In a draft report released Thursday, the U.S. EPA said smog levels could increase significantly in many areas of the United States due to climate change, especially in the Northeast, lower Midwest, and mid-Atlantic regions. Smog is mainly a summer phenomenon in most places, caused by sunlight reacting with nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compo ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, US EPA (all these topics)

A Penguin for Your Thoughts Penguin declines don't bode well for the rest of us		01 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 3:49 PM on 01 Jul 2008 Penguin populations are declining, which is bad news not just for the tuxedoed birds but for, well, the world in general. A new scientific review published in the journal BioScience shows that everywhere they live, penguins are suffering from a combination of climate change, ocean pollution, overfishing, tourism, and development. "Many penguins we thought would be safe because t ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news, scientific research, water pollution, wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics)

Oh No You DDT Melting Antarctic glaciers may be releasing DDT, says study		27 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:44 AM on 27 May 2008 Ad�lie penguins in the Antarctic are as chock-full of pesticide DDT as they were in the 1970s, even though global DDT use has dropped 80 percent in the past three decades, says new research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Researchers speculate that climate change is at fault -- honestly, is there anything climate change is not mucking up? -- as concentratio ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, toxics (all these topics)

And Now for Something Completely Diffuse Climate change messing with ecology worldwide, study says		15 May 2008	News
Posted at 9:06 AM on 15 May 2008 Climate change is messing with ecology worldwide right now, according to a comprehensive new study in the journal Nature. Researchers examined data on shifts in over 28,000 plant and animal systems and over 800 environmental changes across all the world's continents for the past 30 years. In 90 percent of the cases of change in wildlife behavior or populations, the ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research (all these topics)

If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Tropics Tropical insects under grave threat from climate change, study says		06 May 2008	News
Posted at 6:11 AM on 06 May 2008 Tropical insects and other temperature-dependent critters that make their home in the tropics could be in grave danger from climate change, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. As opposed to species at the world's poles that frequently encounter a wide range of temperatures, tropical insects ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

The Horn of a Dilemma Narwhals more at risk than polar bears, says study		25 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:10 PM on 25 Apr 2008 Polar bears get all the press, but climate change may be even harder on the narwhal, says new research. Narwhals, the whales whose long spiral tusks kick-started the myth of unicorns, top a list of 11 at-risk Arctic marine mammals published in the journal Ecological Applications. Hooded seals, bowhead whales, and walrus rounded out the top five, while ringed seals and bearded seals, which a ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

It Was the West of Times ... U.S. West warming faster than the rest of the planet, says analysis		28 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:42 AM on 28 Mar 2008 The U.S. West is warming faster than the rest of the country, and faster than the planet as a whole, according to an analysis of 50 scientific studies done by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization. From 2003 to 2007, the globe was 1 degree Fahrenheit warmer than its average 20th century temperature; during the same period, 11 Western states averaged 1.7 degrees war ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, United States (all these topics)

It's a Glac-Sure Thing World's glaciers melting rapidly, report says		17 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 8:29 AM on 17 Mar 2008 The world's glaciers are melting quite rapidly and will likely cause all sorts of environmental problems, according to data from the World Glacier Monitoring Service. The WGMS tracks the health of 30 "reference" glaciers throughout the world and has said that their rate of melt has sped up significantly in recent years. Between 1980 and 1999, the glaciers shrunk an average of 11.8 inc ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Assail the Seven Seas Nearly all of world's oceans tainted by human activity, says study		15 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 2:52 PM on 15 Feb 2008 Human activity has tainted all but 3.7 percent of the world's oceans, and 41 percent of the world's waters have been heavily impacted, says a new study in Science. A graphic map illustrates in all-too-clear terms that the briny deep has taken a terrible toll from 17 human threats, including climate change, overfishing, fertilizer runoff, coastal development, and shipping pol ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, habitat loss, news, oceans, scientific research (all these topics)

Dead Mead Lake Mead could run out of water by 2021, says study		12 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 5:45 PM on 12 Feb 2008 There's a 50-50 chance that the Arizona- and Nevada-bordering, human-made Lake Mead will become Dry Ditch Mead by 2021, according to a study to be published in the journal Water Resources Research. Oh, and that's a conservative estimate, say the study authors, as is this one: By 2017, there's an equally good chance that water levels in the reservoir could drop so low that the Hoover Dam would be inca ...
Topics: Arizona, California, climate, climate change impacts, Nevada, news, scientific research, water crisis (all these topics)

A Shock to the Systems Scientists identify ecological systems most at risk from climate change		05 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 7:05 AM on 05 Feb 2008 Scientists have identified the ecological systems most at risk from climate change in a study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers warned that within 100 years, a series of tipping points could occur that will significantly alter important ecological systems. Most at risk, according to the study: Arctic sea ice ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Snow Woe Climate change leading to water shortages in U.S. West, says study		01 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 11:58 AM on 01 Feb 2008 Remember water? We're not quite at the point of calling it a thing of the past -- but it sure looks to become scarce in the U.S. West, says a new study in the journal Science. It's not natural weather variability or volcanic activity, say researchers, but quite clearly climate change that is leading to swiftly declining snowpack in Western mountains, which leads to rivers running dry, wh ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, United States, water crisis (all these topics)

Antarctic'ed Off Antarctica ice melt more widespread and faster than thought, says study		14 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:48 PM on 14 Jan 2008 Antarctica holds about 90 percent of the Earth's ice, so it's a bit problematic that the continent seems to be melting faster than expected. Not only is large-scale ice loss more widespread than thought, but the rate of meltiness has accelerated over the last decade, says a study in the journal Nature Geoscience. The West Antarctic ice sheet lost about 132 billion tons of ic ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Now Where Did We Put That Respirator? For every 1 degree Celsius globe warms, some 21,000 people could die, says study		04 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:06 PM on 04 Jan 2008 For every 1 degree Celsius of anthropogenic global warming, some 21,000 people worldwide could die, including more than 1,000 in the U.S., says a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. According to computer modeling by researcher Mark Jacobson, increased air pollution due to rising carbon-dioxide levels will lead to more fatalities. "Th ...
Topics: air pollution, California, climate, climate change impacts, health, news, scientific research (all these topics)

What Part of Severe precipitation in U.S. significantly increased over past half-century, says report		05 Dec 2007	News
"Go Away" Don't You Understand? Severe precipitation in U.S. significantly increased over past half-century, says report Posted at 5:50 PM on 05 Dec 2007 The number of severe rainfalls and snowstorms across the U.S. has increased by around 24 percent in the last 50 years, says a new report from green group Environment America. In five states -- Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont -- instances of heavy precipitation have jumped by more than 50 per ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, severe weather (all these topics)

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