Human activity has affected Earth's surface temperature during the last 130 years, according to researchers. The study analyzed historic greenhouse gas concentrations and solar activity between 1865 and 1990. (Spacedaily.com)
A NASA-funded study of ancient and unpolluted South American forests promises to upend longstanding beliefs about ecosystems and the effects of pollution in the Northern Hemisphere. (Spaceflight Now, ScienceDaily.com)
A rapid and unexpected warming of lakes on an Antarctic island provides compelling evidence of the environmental impact that rising global temperatures are having. (Reuters)
Satellite measurements from European Space Agency satellites have observed that the Dead Sea and the land around it has sunk by about 6 meters between 1992 and 1999, and the water level in the Dead Sea keeps dropping. (BBC News On-line)
The world?s largest icecap outside the Polar Regions, called Vatnajokull in Iceland, could almost disappear by the end of this century if global warming develops, according to glaciologists. (Ananova.com)
NASA climatologists and U.S. military health specialists may have discovered a way to predict outbreaks of Bartonellosis by observing sea surface temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific. (Spacedaily.com, ScienceDaily.com)
Researcher at Durham University using a mathematical computer model predict that by 2050 large parts of southern England could get malarial transmissions as a result of climate warming. (BBC News online)
Over the next century, climate change will likely bring more wintertime flooding, and summertime drought to California, according to a study by Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and the National Weather Service. (Spacedaily.com, ScienceDaily.com)
A new NASA-funded study shows that the rate of growth of greenhouse gas emissions has slowed since its peak in 1980, due in part to international cooperation that led to reduced cholorfluorocarbon use, slower growth in methane, and a steady rate of carbon dioxide emissions. (Los Angeles Times, CNN, CNN.com, Spaceflightnow.com)
A new study reveals that the west Antarctic Ice Sheet is growing and becoming thicker, slightly countering an overall trend toward rising seas. (New York Times, BBC News on-line)
Researchers from Florida State University have been able to detect the formation of tropical cyclones earlier using in instrument on a NASA satellite to detect rotating winds. (Cosmiverse.com, Sciencedaily.com)
Sea surface temperatures in various ocean basins have been found to have climatic impacts on the United States, and by observing them, scientists can greatly increase the predictability of precipitation during all seasons. (United Press International, Cosmiverse.com)
A report commissioned by Congress on future climate warming for New England and New York says that within 20 years and beyond, maple trees may stop producing sap, beaches will shrink, the region will become more prone to floods, and Boston could become as hot as Atlanta. (Los Angeles Times, Washington Post)
The world may be headed for another bout with El Niño. (Weather.com)
Researchers use global and regional climate models to estimate the effects of global warming on cotton yields. (Science News)