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Irrigation’s Cooling Effects May Mask Warming in Some Regions — For Now

Megan Hahn — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:48:12 +0000

irrigation water, projected to dry up in coming decades of continuing overuse,when they do, people face double whammy of food shortages and higher temperatures …

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Global warming’s silver lining: Northern countries will thrive, grow

Megan Hahn — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:20:36 +0000

As global pressures mount, the New North is well-positioned to prosper economically in the 21st century, UCLA author says…

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Most New Farmland in Tropics Comes from Slashing Forests, Research Shows

Megan Hahn — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:27:53 +0000

This has huge implications for global warming, if we continue to expand our farmland into tropical forests at that rate…

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Giant Greenland Iceberg — Largest in the Northern Hemisphere — Enters Nares Strait

Megan Hahn — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:17:40 +0000

ESA’s Envisat satellite has been tracking the progression of the giant iceberg that calved from Greenland’s Petermann glacier on 4 August 2010…

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Money Key To Tackling Climate Change

Megan Hahn — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:06:48 +0000

Science will show climate change that is caused by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions. But, the point is clear, we cannot afford to face escalating disasters of the kind we’re seeing…

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Climate Change Implicated in Decline of Horseshoe Crabs

Megan Hahn — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:22:07 +0000

A distinct decline in horseshoe crab numbers has occurred that parallels climate change associated with the end of the last Ice Age…

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Carnivore Species Shrank During Global Warming Event

Megan Hahn — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:34:19 +0000

A new University of Florida study indicates extinct carnivorous mammals shrank in size during a global warming event that occurred 55 million years ago…

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Shifting Ozone Hole Exposed South America to More Ultraviolet Light in 2009

Megan Hahn — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:21:18 +0000

in November 2009, that hole shifted its position, leaving the southern tip of South America exposed to UV light at levels much greater than normal…

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Extensive Relict Coral Reef Found in Southern Pacific

Megan Hahn — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:06:20 +0000

They found that the reef thrived from about 9,000 to 7,000 years ago and covered an area 20 times larger than the modern reef…

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Acidifying Oceans Spell Bleak Marine Biological Future ‘by End of Century’, Mediterranean Research Finds

Megan Hahn — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:39:14 +0000

A unique ‘natural laboratory’ in the Mediterranean Sea is revealing the effects of rising carbon dioxide levels on life in the oceans…

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Shrinking Atmospheric Layer Linked to Low Levels of Solar Radiation

Megan Hahn — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:31:44 +0000

Large changes in the sun’s energy output may drive unexpectedly dramatic fluctuations in Earth’s outer atmosphere…

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Drought Drives Decade-Long Decline in Plant Growth

Megan Hahn — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:32:42 +0000

Global plant productivity that once was on the rise with warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline because of regional drought…

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A Tale of Two Atolls

Megan Hahn — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:07:46 +0000

Coral reefs — kaleidoscopes of pink anemones and silver sharks — are planet’s most colorful ecosystems and among its most endangered, say marine scientists…

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Limiting Ocean Acidification Under Global Change

Megan Hahn — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:55:34 +0000

Changes in ocean pH over subsequent centuries will depend on how much the rate of carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced in the longer term…

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How Corals Fight Back

Megan Hahn — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:53:50 +0000

this will enable us to more accurately predict the vulnerability of coral reefs to disease and bleaching, before there are obvious signs of stress…

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Indonesia’s Coral Reefs Dying Faster Than Expected

Megan Hahn — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:15:24 +0000

Scientists say cause is dramatic rise in water temperature,warn threat extends to other reefs across Asia…

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Resolving the Paradox of the Antarctic Sea Ice

Megan Hahn — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:28:52 +0000

While Arctic sea ice has been diminishing in recent decades, the Antarctic sea ice extent has been increasing slightly…

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Massive Coral Mortality Following Bleaching in Indonesia

Megan Hahn — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:06:21 +0000

observations indicate a dramatic rise in surface temperature in Indonesian waters resulted in a large-scale bleaching event which devastated coral populations…

Environmental Report Predicts Global Warming Will Bring More Days of Extreme Heat

Megan Hahn — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:28:18 +0000

Many climate scientists predict extreme weather will be more common as earth warms…

Russia’s Damaged Wheat: a Glimpse of the Future?

Megan Hahn — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:51:25 +0000

Climate change threatens major crops…

Greenland Ice Island Prompts Global Warming Debate

Megan Hahn — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:39:07 +0000

Some see huge iceberg as climate change symptom, others call it a normal occurrence….

An Ancient Earth Like Ours: Geologists Reconstruct Earth’s Climate Belts Between 460 and 445 Million Years Ago

Megan Hahn — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:21:28 +0000

scientists have reconstructed the Earth’s climate belts of the late Ordovician Period, between 460 and 445 million years ago…

Greenhouse Gas Calculator Connects Farming Practices With Carbon Credits

Megan Hahn — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:42:51 +0000

Farmers can make money on grrenhouse gas markets, by installing methane capture technologies in animal-based systems, no-till farming, establishing grasslands, and planting trees…

Scientists Test Australia’s Moreton Bay as Coral ‘Lifeboat’

Megan Hahn — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:26:11 +0000

team of scientists exploring Moreton Bay, as a possible ‘lifeboat’ to save corals from the Great Barrier Reef at risk of extermination under climate change…

Greenland Glacier Calves Island Four Times the Size of Manhattan

Megan Hahn — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:02:17 +0000

researcher reports that an “ice island” four times size of Manhattan has calved from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier…