News tagged with cause climate change


Papua New Guinea declares first national conservation area

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The southeast Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea, home to some of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth, has created its first national conservation area to preserve forever a swath of pristine tropical forest ...





Search results for cause climate change


NASA Releases Climate Change Multimedia Resource Reel

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 3

In advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, NASA has released a new multimedia climate change "resource reel" showcasing free downloadable videos, data visualizations, animations, and still images ...


39 percent of Britons polled said climate change had not yet been proven to be man-made

Half of Britons deny climate change man-made: poll

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 72

Almost half of Britons do not believe human behaviour is the main cause of global warming, a new poll showed Sunday, a day before world leaders begin crunch climate talks in Copenhagen.


Climate change financing -- the role of development cooperation

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (7) | comments 7

"Development cooperation can play an important role in ensuring that the poorest countries will benefit from climate change funding," says Olof Drakenberg, policy analyst at the Environmental Economics Unit at the School ...


Germany unveiled a supercomputer which should be in a position to model even tornados

Germany unveils world's largest weather supercomputer

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Germany Thursday unveiled the world's most powerful weather supercomputer that scientists hope will provide critical data on global warming for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).


Disproportionate effects of global warming and pollution on disadvantaged communities

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (11) | comments 18

Global warming, pollution, and the environmental consequences of energy production impose a greater burden on low-income, disadvantaged communities, and strategies to prevent these inequities are urgently needed. A provocative ...


Key scientist says politics behind stolen e-mails

Technology / Other

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4

(AP) -- A leading climate change scientist said hackers breaking into a university's computer server and then posting documents online show the nasty politics of global warming.


United Nations to probe climate e-mail leak (AP)

United Nations to probe climate e-mail leak

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 20

(AP) -- The United Nations will conduct its own investigation into e-mails leaked from a leading British climate science center in addition to the probe by the University of East Anglia, a senior U.N. climate ...


Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (21) | comments 35

(AP) -- A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's ...


Researchers studying link between climate change and cattle nutritional stress

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Kansas State University's Joseph Craine, research assistant professor in the Division of Biology, and KC Olson, associate professor in animal sciences and industry, have teamed up with some other scientists from across the ...


Study: Slowdown in warming last year not permanent

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (19) | comments 18

(AP) -- Cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing, government and academic scientists said Friday.



List of search results for cause climate change