Climate change expert outlines humanity’s role in speeding global warming – University of Birmingham
Professor Sir David Hendry Climate change expert Professor Sir David Hendry will explore how humanity has accelerated global warming when he delivers the annual China Institute Li Siguang lecture at the University of Birmingham on Wednesday 20th November. And his…
Pollution from Athabasca oil sands affects weather processes
(McGill University) Scientists have been looking at pollution affecting the air, land and water around the Athabaska Oil Sands for some time. After looking at contaminants in snow taken from up-to 25 km away from the oil sands, a McGill-led scientific team now suggests that oil sand pollution is also affecting the weather patterns in the surrounding regions.
Climate change: Warming signal links global floods and fires – BBC News
Image copyright Getty Images With homes under water in South Yorkshire, near record flooding in Venice, and burgeoning wildfires in Australia, many people are asking if and how climate change is connected to these extreme weather events. What can we…
The Climate Change Health Risks Facing a Child Born Today: A Tale of Two Futures
The latest Countdown report from the medical journal Lancet lays out the risks ahead, from womb to adolescence. A child born today faces two possible futures. In one, the world continues to burn fossil fuels, making the child more likely…
Portents of continental-scale fires as the Earth warms
Andrew Glikson Earth and climate scientist Australian National University 15.11.2019 The effects of encroaching deserts and of fire storms on terrestrial forests originally developed under moderate conditions distinct from those emerging under rapid global warming and extreme weather events may…
DNA data offers scientific look at 500 years of extramarital sex in Western Europe
Researchers have put DNA evidence together with long-term genealogical data to explore questions of biological fatherhood on a broad scale among people living in parts of Western Europe over the last 500 years. The study found evidence of extra-pair paternity events turned up more often in people of lower socioeconomic status who lived in densely populated cities in the 19th century.
Wind and solar plants rise in the shadow of Fukushima's nuclear meltdown in Japan
In March 2011, a chain of events led to the most complicated nuclear accident that has ever occurred. It began with a magnitude-9.0 earthquake, followed by a tsunami that caused a meltdown of the nuclear reactor in Fukushima, Japan. It…
Wind and solar plants rise in the shadow of Fukushima's nuclear meltdown in Japan
In March 2011, a chain of events led to the most complicated nuclear accident that has ever occurred. It began with a magnitude-9.0 earthquake, followed by a tsunami that caused a meltdown of the nuclear reactor in Fukushima, Japan. It…
Climate change is damaging the lifelong health of children across the world, medical officials warn – CNBC
A man and a child wearing breathing masks are seen on an electric vehicle in smog on November 14, 2018 in Beijing, China. Yang Kejia, China News Service | Visual China Group | Getty Images Climate change is already damaging…
How giant kelp may respond to climate change
Like someone from Minnesota being dropped into an Arizona heat wave, giant kelp living in cooler, high-latitude waters were more vulnerable to excessive heat than kelp already living in warmer, Southern California waters, according to a study of Chilean and Californian kelp.
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