Every U.S. coral reef system is suffering from both human and natural disturbances, warms a new government report. (Environment News Service)
Southern African rains look likely to dry up in a growing El Niño phenomenon, but South African farmers said winter rains had set them in good stead for the dry spell. (Reuters)
Black Carbon Contributes to Droughts and Floods in China
Scientists at the Climate and Culture Conference in Canberra, Australia said that warmer conditions could provide ideal breeding grounds for the malaria virus. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
A Spanish scientist says global warming may be to blame for giant blocks of ice called megacryometeors, which fall from clear skies. (Reuters)
Water circulation data from the North Atlantic now suggest the climate system may be approaching a threshold, which may have implications for climate change, and the circulation of warm Gulf waters up the U.S. eastern seaboard. (Christian Science Monitor)
Scientists say that climate change is responsible for a collapsing glacier on the Russian Caucasus Mountains that buried a village under 3 million tons of ice and mud. (LA Times)
In October, jets will stream over south Florida and unleash a powder to promote rain. The hope is that this powder will be able to steal the strength from hurricanes. (ABCNews.com)
The National Meteorological Centre of the Netherlands predicts that the ozone hole over Antarctica will break up this week, months earlier than normal. (Spacedaily.com)
A new study from the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy has found that 40,000 acres of coastal wetlands that provide spawning, feeding and nursery areas for fish are disappearing per year. (CBSnews.com)
Over warmer waters in the tropics, clouds become thicker and more extensive, and reflect more sunlight back into space than they do over cooler waters. (ScienceDaily)
Climate experts with Natural Resources Canada are reworking their data on vegetation hardiness zones in Canada have changed as the climate has changed. (Toronto Globe and Mail)
Earth’s climate will warm up over the next 50 years whether or not greenhouse gases are curbed soon, according to a NASA study. (Reuters, ABC News, Ananova)
In some areas above the Arctic Circle, average winter temperatures are 10F degrees above normal. More insects are feeding on Alaskan evergreens, permafrost is melting, and waters are rising around Shishmaref, Alaska making the town consider a move 5 miles east of its present location. (CNN)
The World Meteorological Organization announced that the ozone layer will remain vulnerable during the next decade or so, even with full compliance to measures reducing the pollutants that adversely affect it. (Spacedaily.com)
NASA funded researchers are now routinely producing the first global maps of fine aerosols that distinguish plumes of human-produced pollution from natural aerosols. (Spacedaily, ENS)
Satellite pictures of northern Africa show that areas lost to the Sahara desert during decades of drought are becoming green again. (BBC News)
Scientists using airborne spectrometers charted the toxic dust from the disintergrating twin towers of Sept. 11th, while others looked at how the lack of contrails affected weather patterns. (NY Times)
Some scientists believe that there once were rings of rocks and debris around the Earth, which may explain patterns of climate change in Earth’s geologic record. (SpaceDaily.com)
The National Climatic Data Center reported that June through August was the warmest summer since the 1930s. The average temperature (combining highs and lows)was 73.9 degrees, 1.8 degrees warmer than normal. (Nandotimes.com, Associated Press)
The National Weather Service said that fall and winter impacts of El Nino will mean drier than average conditions for the Pacific Northwest, and mid-Atlantic states in the fall; and wetter than average in the southern states in winter. (Environment News Service)
The drought gripping nearly half of the U.S. is expected to linger for another 6 months with the arrival of a weak El Nino. (Reuters)
Recent measurements by NASA have concluded that Earth's polar ice sheets are changing much more rapidly than previously believe. These changes may have consequences to global sea levels and the world's climate. (Spacedaily.com)
A researcher from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland says that thousands of the world's most exotic species of sea animals may face extinction if Antarctic sea temperatures rise as predicted over the next 100 years. (CBSnews.com)
A Canadian scientist says that the glaciers in the Rockies will be gone in 20 to 30 years due to climate change. (National Post/Canada.com)
NASA scientists are headed to the Amazon to learn the origin of a 5 mile diameter crater. They will analyze soils and rocks to determine if it was created by a comet or meteor impact. (Spaceflightnow.com)
A NASA researcher has discovered the link between a certain wave of atmospheric pressure at sea level and the amount of sea ice exported through the Fram Strait near Greenland. (Cosmiverse.com., Wissenschaft Berichte(Germany))
Movements of lobster, tuna and cod have been moving out of the warmer than normal waters all around Cape Cod, Massachusetts this year, making for smaller catches. (Boston Globe)