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Monday, May 28, 2012

Reduce methane to buy time on reducing CO2 argues climate scientist

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Tackling reduction of carbon dioxide pollution is proving difficult to do, although much of this is political intransigence. Peter Cox Prof...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

Global CO2 emissions reach record high for 2011 Warns IEA

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just reported another increase in CO2 emissions for 2011 to a new record high of 31.6 gigatonnes ...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Waking the giant: Global Warming in the Weddell Sea, West Antarctic Ice Sheet and sea level rise

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Warm ocean currents are projected to melt the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica opening instabilities in the We...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Seagrass meadows are key carbon sinks for combatting climate change

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May 22 is UNESCO's
 International Day for Biological Diversity which focussed strongly on conserving our marine diversity. One of the i...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Global Warming intensifying Global Water Cycle by double current climate model projections

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New research into ocean salinity levels has revealed a strong global water cycle intensification during the period of 1950 to 2000. The rese...

Pollution caused global warming hole delayed climate change over eastern United States

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Reduction in air pollution from coal fired power stations due to environmental regulations since the 1980s has increased regional global wa...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

New Breakthrough in Photovoltaic solar cell efficiency

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Researchers from Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy and the University of Sydney, with Australian Solar Institute support, ha...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Global Warming threshold for Greenland Ice Sheet collapse reduced to 1.6 degrees C

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New research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Universidad Complutense de Madrid has lowered the best estimate for...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Global Warming means 20 Metre sea level rise in the pipeline say scientists

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Scientists studying the geological record have determined that at slightly above current temperatures we are about 20 metres below what the ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Carnaby's Cockatoo suffers 37 per cent population decline in one year

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Flocks of Carnaby's Black Cockatoo are iconic sights for the people of Perth, the Swan River Region and the forests of the South west. B...