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A probe into levels of an important greenhouse gas above the tropical Atlantic has challenged assumptions about key sources of global warming, scientists said on Wednesday.Researchers found that natural chemicals in the atmosphere west of equatorial Africa destroyed 50 percent more ozone in that region than expected.
This process also reduced concentrations of methane, another powerful […]

Proponents say they replenish the ecosystem. Some scientists aren’t so sure.
It sounds like a great idea. Take a retired oil rig, Navy ship or fleet of subway cars that would otherwise add to our nation’s swelling heap of trash and drop it off the coast of just about anywhere. Plants and invertebrates will colonize the […]

Whales in the Southern Ocean face the twin threat of a shortage of food and a loss of hunting grounds because of global warming, a new report warns.The rise in temperature predicted over the next 40 years will lead to a drop in winter sea-ice coverage of Antarctic waters of up to 30 per cent […]

Climate change threatens to devastate coral reef fish populations and increase the likelihood of fishery collapses, Australian researchers warned Monday.Coral reefs’ vulnerability to global warming has already been established by researchers, but the fish living in the reefs are also at risk, James Cook University’s Centre for Excellence in Coral Reef Studies found.
“We have already […]

United Utilities’ chief executive, Philip Green, said the UK water sector faces a “tough challenge” in keeping prices down while dealing with the increasing cost of raising capital, rising energy prices and regulatory pressures.Mr Green said capital spending would remain high in the industry as the Government put pressure on the companies to beef up […]

Global warming will likely drain more water from the Great Lakes and pose added pollution threats to the region’s vulnerable ecosystem, environmental groups said in a report issued on Wednesday.Climate change could further reduce scant ice cover observed in recent winters, increasing evaporation rates and dropping water levels in the five lakes that collectively make […]

Shocked by rising food prices? Get used to it — and be ready for water shortages, too, says a sweeping new scientific report rounding up likely effects of climate change on the United States’ land, water and farms over the next half-century.Some effects already can be felt, says the report released Tuesday, which synthesizes results […]

Water security efforts get a significant share of funds totaling $2.3 billion over five years to counter or cope with climate change. ”The effects of climate change mean most of Australia’s cities and towns have less water, and we can no longer on rainfall to supply all our drinking water,” Minister for Climate Change and […]

For more than 50 years, the governor’s fishing opener has been a major part of life in Minnesota. According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, more than a million of us buy fishing licenses every year, and hit the lakes.However, state researchers are beginning to track a slow and subtle change below the surface […]

Global warming is hitting the Arctic harder and faster than scientists expected, causing unforeseen changes to the frigid region’s ice, wildlife, atmosphere and oceans, the conservation group WWF said.The most prominent differences observed over the last three years include a “massively accelerated” decline in summer sea ice and “much greater” shrinking of the Greenland Ice […]