BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU nations have yet to come up with a plan on how to fill a multi-billion euro fund to help tackle climate change, even as the region’s executive body hosts talks with countries likely to bear the brunt of extreme weather.
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One of the oldest lakes in the world, Clear Lake in northern California has deep sediments that contain a record of the climate and local plants and animals going back perhaps 500,000 years. Scientists are drilling cores from the sediments to explore 130,000 years of this history and fine-tune models for predicting the fate of today’s flora and fauna in the face of global warming and pressure from a growing human population.
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By analyzing stalagmites, a team of researchers has determined that the climate signature in the tropics through four glacial cycles looks different in some ways and similar in others when compared to the climate signature at high latitudes. The results suggest that Earth’s climate system might have two modes of responding to significant changes.
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Modern cows are a major source of methane, a greenhouse gas. Just think what must have come out of the biggest plant eating dinosaurs…
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Speculation is rife that a recent glut of killer tornadoes is a sign of rising temperatures. Harold Brooks unpicks the evidence
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Disturbances from the drilling of gas wells is causing the fleet-footed ungulates to vacate their prime wintering grounds
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A threatened tortoise species is obstructing plans to build huge power plants in the deserts of the US Southwest
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Experiments may dramatically underestimate how plants will respond to climate change in the future. That’s the conclusion of an analysis of 50 plant studies on four continents.
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Loss of biodiversity appears to impact ecosystems as much as climate change, pollution and other major forms of environmental stress, according to a new study. There has been growing concern that the very high rates of modern extinctions — due to habitat loss, overharvesting and other human-caused environmental changes — could reduce nature’s ability to provide goods and services like food, clean water and a stable climate.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Any one-off European Union intervention to clear the massive glut of permits now clogging its emissions trading scheme is likely to lead to a ‘central bank’ or other policy tool to manage future imbalances in the world’s biggest carbon market.
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