Environment
Ancient fossils reveal potential risk of rise in parasitic infections due to climate change
07 Feb 2015
West Antarctic melt rate has tripled: UC Irvine-NASA
02 Feb 2015
The total amount of loss averaged 83 gigatons per year (91.5 billion US tons). By comparison, Mt. Everest weighs about 161 gigatons, meaning the Antarctic glaciers lost a Mt.-Everest’s-worth amount of water weight every two years over the last 21 year
Estimated social cost of climate change not accurate, Stanford scientists say
By By Ker Than | 30 Jan 2015
The social cost of carbon dioxide emissions may not be $37 per ton, as estimated by a recent US government study, but $220 per ton
Toyota forced to replace car whose roof squirrels chewed up
29 Jan 2015
Going ‘green’ has its own problems - the owner of a new Toyota Aygo in Britain has complained that squirrels ate parts of his car because they were made from eco-friendly plastics
Climate change, N-threat push `Doomsday Clock' 3 minutes closer to Zero-hour
23 Jan 2015
The Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists cited unchecked climate change and global nuclear weapons modernisation as the basis for its decision to move the minute hand of the historic `Doomsday Clock' forward two minutes
“Doomsday Clock” minute hand to move again?
20 Jan 2015
Hazy road to Mecca
17 Jan 2015
Obama to announce new plans to regulate methane emissions: Reports
15 Jan 2015
President Obama hopes to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production by up to 45 per cent by 2025 from the levels recorded in 2012
Leave fossil fuels unused to limit global warming: study
08 Jan 2015
A third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80 per cent of current coal reserves globally should be left in the ground and not used before 2050 if global warming targets are to be achieved, says a new study
Leave fossil fuels unused to limit global warming: study
08 Jan 2015
A third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80 per cent of current coal reserves globally should be left in the ground and not used before 2050 if global warming targets are to be achieved, says a new study
Study hints that ancient Earth made its own water — geologically
08 Jan 2015
Evidence suggests that rock circulating in the Earth's mantle between 250 and 410 miles under the ground, feeds the world’s oceans even today
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