An increase in pests could hamper the ability of trees to absorb greenhouse gasses, which have been linked to global warming. (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News)
The Arctic Ocean’s cover of year-round ice is shrinking faster than at any time in recorded history and could disappear completely by the end of the century, NASA scientists reported. (Atlanta Journal Constitution, CBS News, Globe and Mail)
The extreme weather events that have plagued Westcountry, UK, are a precursor of worse things to come, climate change experts warned. (Western Morning News-UK)
An ice core drilled out of a mountain shows climate change has been occurring in western Canada for the past 150 years, scientists said Wednesday. (Reuters, Philadelphia Inquirer)
The effect of global warming on the wine industry was highlighted at a national industry conference in Adelaide. (ABC News)
Escalating greenhouse gas levels may significantly boost production of crops such as wheat, rice, and soybeans, according to a recent study. (National Geographic News)
A freak combination of severe droughts followed by floods in the last six months has left more than half a million Cambodians short of food for the rest of the year, according to the UN. (CNN, MSNBC)
Only 35 glaciers remain in Glacier National Park, a place where 150 glaciers graced the cliffs and peaks a century ago. (AP, The Olympian, Billings Gazette)
In New Zealand, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change discusses several greenhouse gases and their increasing influence in a report designed to heighten public awareness about the existence of global warming. (New Zealand Herald)
The Australian Federal Government hopes to combat climate change through a joint initiative with the United States, which will involve using 3,000 data collecting devices to perform detailed climate tracking. (ABC News)
Global warming will have a devastating effect on water availability in the Western United States over the next 25 to 50 years, a new national climate forecasting effort says. (CNN)
Britain’s railways face growing risks from flash floods and high wind as climate change creates disturbances in weather patterns. (Financial Times-UK)
The wildlife along the northwest coastline of Spain is now being threatened with what ecologists are foreseeing as one of the world?s worst oil spills. (BBC News, Yahoo UK News)
Analysis of long-term changes in Pacific Ocean temperatures may provide additional data with which to evaluate global warming hypotheses. (Spacedaily)
Scientists and aviation officials say there is nothing dangerous about the white jet streams from aircraft that a New Mexico scientist and some Durango-area residents say are causing sickness and drought around the county. (Durango Herald)
A new Syracuse University study, which resulted from a detailed analysis of a continuous 10,000-year record of El Niño events from a lake in southern Ecuador, indicates that El Niño operates on a 2,000 year cycle. (Spacedaily)
In October, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) completed the first measurement of the solar ultraviolet radiation spectrum over the duration of an 11 year solar cycle, a period marked by cyclical shifts in the Sun’s activity. (Cosmiverse) more...
A Tufts University researcher is hoping his study of the likely future effects of global warming will stir a movement towards addressing environmental issues. (CNN, AP)
Green-fingered Britons could soon be growing bananas and avocados instead of lupins and Rhododendrons as a result of climate change, according to leading horticulturists. (CNN)
Brief, light rains came to the assistance of fire-fighters battling bush fires in New South Wales, on Sunday night, which is experiencing its driest weather in 104 years. (New Scientist)
A new online exhibit of satellite imagery explores how natural landscapes create abstract art. (Environment News Service)
Researchers use satellite imagery to show that tiny phytoplankton that inhabit three-quarters of the Earth’s surface hold a fundamental warming influence on the planet by capturing and absorbing the sun’s radiation. (ScienceDaily)
Encroaching icebergs have scattered one of the oldest known colonies of Antarctic Emperor penguins, and are disrupting their breeding, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. (Reuters, ABC News)
The El Niño weather pattern may be worse than previously predicted and could last through February, forecasters warned Thursday. (CNN)
A new lightning index that uses measurements of water vapor in the atmosphere from Global Positioning Systems has improved lead-time for predicting the first lightning strikes from thunderstorms. (Cosmiverse, Honolulu Star Bulletin)
A NASA researcher says warmer or colder sea surface temperatures affect the Madden Julian Oscillation, a large scale atmospheric circulation that regulates rainfall associated with South Asian and Australian monsoons. (UPI, SpaceDaily, Cosmiverse)
Warmer winter temperatures may have allowed invasive species to become established and even dominate marine communities, according to new research. (Environment News Service)
The seas and coast around England are “damaged and declining,” according to a major report published on Wednesday. (BBC)
Astronauts on board the International Space Station have taken two spectacular images of erupting Mt. Etna in Sicily. (BBC)
Massive wildfires that plagued Indonesia five years ago helped lead to the biggest annual increase in greenhouse gas emissions in recorded history, researchers announced. (CNN, BBC, Christian Science Monitor)
NASA scientists using satellite data have shown that shifts in rainfall patterns from one of the strongest El Niño events of the century in 1997 to a La Niña event in 2000 significantly changed vegetation patterns over Africa. (ScienceDaily, Cosmiverse)
Tropical Brazil is the country most struck by lightning in the world and it suffers the highest death toll and serious economic damage from electric thunderstorms, new research showed Tuesday. (CNN)