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Television has less effect on education about climate change than other forms of media

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Worried about climate change and want to learn more? You probably aren't watching television then. A new study by George Mason University Communication Professor Xiaoquan Zhao suggests that watching television has no significant ...


Toward the design of greener consumer products

Toward the design of greener consumer products

Chemistry / Other

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

So you're a manufacturer about to introduce a new consumer product to the marketplace. Will that product or the manufacture of the product contribute to global warming through the greenhouse effect?


Study predicts effect of global warming on spring flowers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

An international study involving Monash University mathematician Dr Malcolm Clark has been used to demonstrate the impact of global warming and to predict the effect further warming will have on plant life.


Birth control could help combat climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (9) | comments 13

(AP) -- Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Friday.


This undated file picture shows part of the Pastoruri snowcapped mountain in the central Peruvian Andes

'Whitewash' could slow global warming: Peruvian scientist

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (10) | comments 11

A Peruvian scientist has called on his country to help slow the melting of Andean glaciers by daubing white paint on the rock and earth left behind by receding ice so they will absorb less heat.


Early spring time for Edinburgh? Study predicts effect of global warming on spring flowers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Will we soon see the flowers of Edinburgh in full bloom in the depths of winter? This possibility is considered in a new study into the impact of global warming on spring flowering, published today in the International Jo ...


Stressed crops emit more methane than thought

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Calgary have found that methane emission by plants could be a bigger problem in global warming than previously thought.


Arctic land and seas account for up to 25 percent of world's carbon sink

Arctic land and seas account for up to 25 percent of world's carbon sink

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

In a new study in the journal Ecological Monographs, ecologists estimate that Arctic lands and oceans are responsible for up to 25 percent of the global net sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Under curren ...


What could 4 degree warming mean for the world?

What could 4 degree warming mean for the world?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 2.1 / 5 (13) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- A leading climate scientist has presented new research findings on the increasing potential for a 4 degrees Celsius rise in global temperatures if the current high emissions of greenhouse ...


New study reveals unexpected relationship between climate warming and advancing treelines

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new study reveals that treelines are not responding to climate warming as expected. The research, the first global quantitative assessment of the relationship between climate warming and treeline advance, is published in ...


Planned emission cuts still mean far hotter Earth

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 1.6 / 5 (13) | comments 2

(AP) -- Earth's temperature is likely to jump nearly 6 degrees between now and the end of the century even if every country cuts greenhouse gas emissions as proposed, according to a United Nations update.


The projection is based on data showing the incidence of heavy rain has doubled in the past 45 years

Global warming to triple rain over Taiwan: scientist

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Global warming will cause the amount of heavy rain dumped on Taiwan to triple over the next 20 years, facing the government with the urgent need to beef up flood defences, a scientist warned Tuesday.


More oxygen -- colder climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 6

Everybody talks about CO2 and other greenhouse gases as causes of global warming and the large climate changes we are currently experiencing. But what about the atmospheric and oceanic oxygen content? Which role does oxyge ...


'Green' roofs may help put lid on global warming

'Green' roofs may help put lid on global warming

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

"Green" roofs, those increasingly popular urban rooftops covered with plants, could help fight global warming, scientists in Michigan are reporting.


Global warming may dent El Nino's protective shield from Atlantic hurricanes, increase droughts

Global warming may dent El Nino's protective shield from Atlantic hurricanes, increase droughts

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (12) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- El Niņo, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons, may be overshadowed by its brother in the central Pacific ...