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Science Daily: Top Environment News – October 10th
Urgent new time frame for climate change revealed by massive analysis Longer life for humans linked to further loss of endangered species Water and lava, but curiously, no explosion Historic trends predict future global reforestation unlikely Secret of cattle ticks’ resistance to pesticide Urgent new time frame for climate change …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Effects of interannual climate variability on tropical tree cover: Satellite data reveal how tropical ecosystems may respond to climate extremes
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Effects of interannual climate variability on tropical tree cover: Satellite data reveal how tropical ecosystems may respond to climate extremes Acidifying oceans could spell trouble for squid North Atlantic hurricane forecast predicts above-average season Microbial changes regulate function of entire ecosystems The greatest place to be …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: More hurricanes for Hawaii?
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News More hurricanes for Hawaii? As climate changes, boreal forests to shift north and relinquish more carbon than expected New cost-effective genome assembly process Brighter clouds, cooler climate? Organic vapors affect clouds, leading to previously unidentified climate cooling Global highways of invasive marine species calculated More …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News
Shark tooth weapons reveal missing shark species in Central Pacific islands Satellite tagging maps the secret migration of white sharks 2013 wintertime Arctic sea ice maximum fifth lowest on record Chimps: Ability to ‘think about thinking’ not limited to humans ‘A better path’ toward projecting, planning for rising seas on …
Arctic Death Spiral Feedback – How It Melts
Here is why THIS is happening, an Arctic melt twice as fast as predicted: Paul Arctic sea ice is melting much, much faster than even the best climate models had projected (actual observations in red). The reason is most likely unmodeled amplifying feedbacks. The image (from Climate Crocks viaArctic Sea Ice Blog) comes …
Thinking the Unthinkable: Engineering Earth’s Climate
Ethical Markets Media publishes this debate about geo-engineering , while still asserting that a better answer is to rapidly ramp up deployment of energy efficiency and renewable, as we show in our GREEN TRANSITION SCOREBOARD®, Hazel Henderson, Editor Jasper Sky and I have been talking about this particular Unthinkable, and …