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Shrimps sound ocean acidity alarm
Shrimps sound ocean acidity alarm The snapping shrimp is the noisiest marine creature in coastal ecosystems. Image: Tullio Ross/University of Adelaide The effect of the sea absorbing increased carbon dioxide in the air has damaging consequences for the noisy snapping shrimp and marine life in coastal rock pools. LONDON, 6 April, 2016 – The slow change in water […]
Politicians push nuclear ‘poison pill’
Politicians push nuclear ‘poison pill’ Construction of a new nuclear reactor in Flamanville, France, is already six years behind schedule. Image: schoella via Wikimedia Commons The economics of nuclear power in Europe are in meltdown, leaving taxpayers facing a heavy burden as the industry clings to pledges of huge public cash injections. LONDON, 21 March, 2016 – The deeply […]
Emissions standstill boosts Paris hopes
Emissions standstill boosts Paris hopes Reduced coal use in China will have a positive impact on poor air quality. Image: V.T. Polywoda via Flickr The link between global economic growth and emissions growth has been further weakened as greenhouse gas levels show no increase for the second year in succession. LONDON, 18 March, 2016 – The world continued […]
Scientists calculate our debt to the Earth
Scientists calculate our debt to the Earth Wheat crops on the Kansas High Plains in the US depend on aquifer water. Image: James Watkins via Flickr Researchers in the US have found a way to put a monetary value on the multitude of vital services and assets we rely on nature to provide us cost-free. LONDON, 24 […]
Better water use can cut global food gap
Better water use can cut global food gap An irrigation system on a pumpkin patch in a semi-arid area of New Mexico in southwestern US. Image: Daniel Schwen via Wikimedia Commons Scientists say that forecasts of a world food shortage need not prove as disastrous as previously thought if humans learn to use water more effectively. LONDON, […]
Oceans are heating up at the double
Oceans are heating up at the double The British survey ship HMS Challenger blazed an oceanic trail a century and a half ago. Image: William Frederick Mitchell via Wikimedia Commons Records from a sailing ship’s round-the-world research voyage almost 150 years ago provide further evidence that the Earth is continuing to warm unchecked. LONDON, 6 […]
Warming linked to spread of zika virus
Warming linked to spread of zika virus The Aedes egypti mosquito has now spread to 80% of Brazil. Image: James Gathany via Wikimedia Commons Scientists believe that record average temperatures may be helping to create an environment that has led to big increases in the number of disease-carrying mosquitoes. SÃO PAULO, 5 February, 2016 – The Zika virus, transmitted […]
Renewables offer quick fix for US emissions
Renewables offer quick fix for US emissions A wind farm sprouts alongside the Interstate 10 road near Whitewater, California Image: Chuck Coker via Flicker Scientists say interstate energy “highways” would allow current wind and solar technologies to deliver electricity where and when it’s needed throughout the US. LONDON, 31 January, 2016 – The US could reduce greenhouse gas […]
Cloud blanket warms up melting icecap
Cloud blanket warms up melting icecap Ominous clouds over the icecap near Kangerlussuaq in Western Greenland. Image: Nikolaj F. Rasmussen via Flickr New study shows that up to 30% of the Greenland icecap melting is due to cloud cover that is helping to raise temperatures − and accelerate sea level rise. LONDON, 30 January, 2016 – Researchers have […]
Plutonium’s global problems are piling up
Plutonium’s global problems are piling up The nuclear fuel carriers Pacific Heron and Pacific Egret in port at Barrow-in-Furness, England, before setting sail for Japan. Image: CORE Increasing worldwide stockpiles of surplus plutonium are becoming a political embarrassment, a worrying security risk, and a hidden extra cost to the nuclear industry. LONDON, 22 January, 2016 − Two […]
Climate change slows onset of next ice age
Climate change slows onset of next ice age Relic of the last ice age: Jökulsárlón, one of Iceland’s glacial lakes Image: Kenneth Muir via Wikimedia Commons The planet’s inexorable warming means there will be no new ice age for at least the next 100,000 years, scientists say. LONDON, 18 January, 2016 – Human beings have not just […]
Weather extremes slash cereal yields
Weather extremes slash cereal yields Wheat and other cereal crops in developed countries such as Australia have been decimated. Image: CSIRO via Wikimedia Commons Increasing intensity of heat and drought as a result of global warming may have caused worldwide cereal harvests to be cut by up to a tenth since the mid-1960s. LONDON, 8 January, 2016 – Climate […]
More Droughts May Mean Less Power
More Droughts May Mean Less Power The powerful flow of rivers such as the Columbia in Oregon, US, could be greatly reduced. (National Weather Service Forecast Office via Wikimedia Commons) LONDON—Climate change could threaten the electricity supply around the world, according to new calculations. That is because the power generation depends on a sure supply of water. […]
Cli-fi is all the rage
Cli-fi is all the rage The Four Horsemen: Eco-apocalypse appeals to writers – and readers. Image: Viktor M Vasnetsov via Wikimedia Commons Need a last-minute present? Stuck for some new year reading material? Then how about a thriller on a world in climate-caused turmoil? LONDON, 26 December, 2015 – It’s some time in the not too distant future. […]
Arctic methane emissions persist in winter
Arctic methane emissions persist in winter Summer and winter, wet and dry, high and low, the Arctic tundra continues to emit methane. Image: Bureau of Land Management (Delta WSR) via Wikimedia Commons Methane, a key greenhouse gas, is released from Arctic soils not only in the short summer period but during the bitterly cold winters […]
