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Can a cow hormone help save the environment? (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 07-04-2008 at 12:00:38
A controversial hormone lets cows make more milk using less energy, according to a new study - environmentalists criticise it as "greenwashing"
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Greenland ice sheet slams the brakes on (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 07-03-2008 at 02:00:42
Fears that meltwater could increase the speed at which glaciers flow into the sea, rapidly destroying the ice sheet, may be unfounded
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Which countries would you pick for your climate team? (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 07-02-2008 at 02:00:43
A new map shows which countries are doing the most to combat climate change, with Latvia and Slovakia getting top marks
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Cleaned up skies explain surprise rate of warming (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 07-02-2008 at 02:00:43
A decrease in air pollution may account for half of the warming experienced in Europe over the last 30 years
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TV boom may boost greenhouse effect (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 07-02-2008 at 02:00:43
A chemical being used in ever larger quantities to make flat-screen TVs may make global warming worse, but no-one knows by how much (full text available to subscribers)
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Air travel in the tropics is worse for climate (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 07-02-2008 at 08:00:43
The effect of bright sunlight increases the production of the greenhouse gas ozone from aircraft exhaust fumes
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Tropical ocean sucks up vast amounts of ozone (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 06-30-2008 at 01:00:42
An ozone "sink" with global implications has been discovered over the tropical Atlantic, but its delicate balance is under threat from pollution
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Climate race separates the weeds from the trees (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 06-30-2008 at 01:00:42
Fast-growing grasses and weeds are racing up mountainsides ahead of rising temperatures, leaving the slow-growing trees behind
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Drought-resistant wheat beats Australian heat (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 06-25-2008 at 01:00:34
Genetically modified wheat offers bigger yields in dry conditions, but will its abilities overcome aversions to the technology?
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Air travel in the tropics causes more warming (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 06-25-2008 at 01:00:34
The effect of bright sunlight increases the production of the greenhouse gas ozone from aircraft exhaust fumes
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When crocodiles roamed the Arctic (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 06-19-2008 at 12:00:38
The poles were once covered by freshwater lakes and lush forests instead of ice. finds out what the world was like in the last great warming (full text available to subscribers)
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Global warming to spark increase in US wildfires (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 06-19-2008 at 12:00:38
The north-western US wilderness is already a tinderbox, but thanks to global warming, the area burned every year could double by 2080
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Hothouse Earth: Strange tales from the last great warming (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 06-18-2008 at 01:00:46
Once the North Pole was infested with crocodiles, while Antarctica was covered by lush forests. But if the poles were so balmy, what on earth were the tropics like? (full text available to subscribers)
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Global warming to increase US wildfires (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 06-18-2008 at 01:00:46
The north-western US wilderness is already a tinderbox, but thanks to global warming, the area burned every year could double by 2080
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Is China a climate saint or sinner? (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 06-17-2008 at 10:00:35
Depending on which way you slice it, China is both better and worse than the US and Europe on measures of resource consumption
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Ocean seeding fails the acid test (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 06-11-2008 at 02:01:48
Fertilising the ocean with iron filings to battle global warming also produces a nasty acid lethal to marine life and even humans (full text available to subscribers)
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Is China a climate criminal? (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 06-11-2008 at 02:01:48
Depending on which way you slice it, China is both better and worse than the US and Europe on measures of resource consumption
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Climate scientists go with the floe (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 06-04-2008 at 02:00:40
Over a century after explorers first drifted across the Arctic, their boat locked in ice, an intrepid team of researchers has done it again. reports (full text available to subscribers)
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Buckets to blame for wartime temperature blip (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 05-29-2008 at 05:00:44
Climate scientists hope to explain an apparent dip in global temperatures in 1945 by comparing the way measurements were made by US and UK ships
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Earth sunshade would not rewind the climate (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 05-28-2008 at 01:00:43
Blocking the sun's rays with space-borne mirrors would not return Earth's climate to that of pre-industrial times, in another setback for the idea
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US struggling to respond to climate shift (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 05-28-2008 at 07:00:47
Climate change is already having a marked effect on US ecosystems, but inadequate monitoring is hampering the country's ability to react
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Knowledgeable Republicans 'less concerned' over climate (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 05-23-2008 at 09:00:47
When it comes to global warming in the US, how knowledge translates into concern depends upon people's political views, say political psychologists
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Knowledgable Republicans 'less concerned' over climate (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 05-23-2008 at 10:00:40
When it comes to global warming in the US, how knowledge translates into concern depends upon people's political views, say political psychologists
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Low snowfall puts Alpine tourism on a downhill slide (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 05-22-2008 at 12:00:39
The amount of snow that falls in the Alps has dropped dramatically since the 1980s and may not recover, say researchers
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Cheap carbon trap cleans up power station emissions (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 05-21-2008 at 01:00:48
A new filter separates the gases emitted by fossil-fuel power stations, allowing carbon dioxide to be sequestered without space-wasting nitrogen (full text available to subscribers)
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