Jet Streams Stumble as the World Warms
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network
Researchers have once again linked a sequence of devastating climate events to global warming fuelled by prodigal human use of fossil fuels. And this time, they believe they have identified the agency behind the blazing summers that have claimed lives and destroyed livelihoods repeatedly during this century.
Renewables Ideas Make World of Difference
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network
Carbon-negative cars, cost-effective organic solar cells and electricity from waste treatment are possible clean energy options as scientists stretch the laws of physics.
Carbon Budget is Only Half as Big as Thought
By Tim Radford, Climate New Network
Climate scientists have bad news for governments, energy companies, motorists, passengers and citizens everywhere in the world...
Acidic Oceans and the Coming Trouble with Fish
By Tim Radford, OurWorld
Pink salmon — the smallest and most abundant of the Pacific salmon species, and a supper table mainstay in many parts of the world — may be swimming towards trouble.
Earth Has Warmed as Usual, with No Slowdown
By Tim Radford, Climate New Network
US scientists re-examine the collection of data which seemed to show global warming slowing since 1998 and say temperatures have continued to rise steadily.
Deep Concerns as Climate Impacts on Gulf Stream Flow
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network
Climate scientists have once again confirmed an alarming slowdown in the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean − the process that drives the current that warms Europe, and powers the planetary climate.
Growing Threat to Amazon’s Crucial Carbon Sink
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network
The Amazon rainforest, for so long one of the vital “green lungs” of the planet, is losing its capacity to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, according to new research.
Climate Change is Likely Factor in Syria’s Conflict
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network
Researchers say climate change probably caused the savage drought that affected Syria nearly a decade ago − and helped to spark the country’s current civil war.