The forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Summary for Policymakers, it has been reported, states that the rate of global warming has slowed over the last 15 years. It also argues that estimates of eventual warming from a doubling of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are lower than was earlier thought.
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Human influences have directly impacted the latitude/altitude pattern of atmospheric temperature. That is the conclusion of a new report by scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and six other scientific institutions.
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Scientists have discovered that many Antarctic ice shelves are losing ice not just by calving icebergs but by melting from their undersides as well.
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Boston University professor, Ranga B. Myneni, is calling on citizens across the globe to lobby the United Nations to step up its action on climate change.
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The India state of Gujarat aims to save water and boost electricity production by installing solar power plants over canals. It plans to construct a 10MW plant over waterways in the Narmada Valley, which supply water to the arid regions of Saurashtra and Kutch.
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In a study in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists say that in two of the region’s most important river basins – the Ganges and the Indus – water levels are unlikely to drop over the next century.
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As the world starts feeling the effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and consequent global temperature rise, researchers are looking for a Plan B to mitigate climate change. A group of German scientists has now come up with an environmentally friendly method that they say could do just that.
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Observing that climate change has become an urgent concern across the globe, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday stressed on the need to find ways and means to reduce country’s carbon footprint as it would be among the nations to be “most seriously” impacted.
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Environmentalists have underlined the need for a new study on climate change. Speaking at an interaction that Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) and Conservation Development Programme had organised in Lalitpur yesterday, they said climate change and natural calamity cannot be studied through conventional method anymore.
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People have been warning about an ice-free Arctic ocean for years. But Jiping Liu, an atmospheric scientist at the State University of New York in Albany in the US and colleagues have gone one better.
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While agriculture as it's currently practiced is a huge emitter of greenhouse gases, focusing solely on farming as a problem undermines efforts to get the farming community on our side. Given that the industry relies heavily on a stable, predictable climate for its viability, farmers are already a natural ally for climate activists.
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More and more people are talking about ocean acidification. At the moment this is a real threat and according to the studies conducted in the field, such a phenomenon can lead to the extinction of marine ecosystems.
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Gandhian freedom fighter, Sunderlal Bahuguna, became a journalist and later turned into a full time activist working for a self-sustaining ecological model for the mountain state of Uttarakhand.
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