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The ice core is analysed for aluminium particles (Image: DRI / McConnell)
A lack of mandatory standards regulating the way businesses report their greenhouse gas emissions has led to massive underestimation in the UK, according a charity-backed report.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide is being pushed deeper into the oceans than previously thought, according to researchers.
The most important report on the science of climate change for six years is set for release on Friday 2 February, and leaks suggest it will be an alarming read.
Researchers camp out on the Rutford Ice Stream in Antarctica (Image: British Antarctic Survey)
A bumblebee hive's thermostat is controlled by a strict division of labour, a new study has revealed.
Two strong candidates for the 2008 US presidential elections have joined forces to address climate change.
It is the start of a new year in US politics, and environment looks to be top of the agenda for the new Congress.
Amphibians bounced back spectacularly from a series of mass extinctions during their evolution, according to a new genetic analysis.
The downfall of the one of the greatest Chinese dynasties may have been catalysed by severe changes in climate. The same climate changes may have simultaneously led to the end of the Maya civilisation depicted in Mel Gibson's new film Apocalypto.
Everybody knows that trees are good for the climate, because they absorb greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, right? Maybe not, says a team of US and French climate experts. They say that whether or not trees help fight global warming depends on where they are.
Global warming is likely to affect cyclones and hurricanes, concludes a new statement from 125 experts, but they say the evidence for this to date is inconclusive.
Conservationists must make better choices of the areas they focus their protection efforts on, say researchers.
Grey Seals keep cool in water pools at the North Rona colony (Image: Biology Letters / Sean Twiss)
There are between 92 million and 180 million great tits in cities and natural habitats across Europe, according to BirdLife International (Image: Current Biology/Slabberkoorn)
Table of actual 2005 emissions, granted caps for 2005-08 and 2008-12, requested caps for 2008-12
Evidence of flu viruses frozen in Siberian lakes has prompted researchers to examine the possibility that global warming may release microbes locked in glaciers for decades or even centuries.
Vestimentiferan worms - a type of tube worm widely seen at the methane seeps - were sampled from the "Builder's Pencil" site. Builder’s Pencil, which covers 180,000 square metres, is one of the largest seep sites in the world (Image: NOAA/NIWA)
Rubber tyres, the kind that lie at the bottom of rivers and at the back of junkyards the world over, could be ideal water filters says an environmental engineer at Penn State university in the US.
What started in a Petri dish like this one could ultimately provide protein for 500 million people every year (Image: Kathleen Phillips / Texas Agricultural Experiment Station)
There are now 500 sand dams in the Kitui district of Kenya (Image: Jeroen Aerts)
Mixed, dense forest in Vesijako, Finland, with exceptionally high forest biomass (Image: Erkki Oksanen, Finnish Forest Research Institute)
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