Changes in the Gulf Stream Correlates with Changes in Climate

13 Mar, 2008 01:01 am A paper in this week's Nature studies the Gulf Stream in depth and the potential of this ocean current on influencing the climate...

Stabilizing the Climate Requires Near-Zero Carbon Emissions

28 Feb, 2008 11:30 am What warming is produced by an individual release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere? This question was addressed by Damon Matthews (Concordia University...

Penguin Peril

12 Feb, 2008 11:53 am How will Antarctica's penguins adapt to climate change? John Blackstone spoke to a researcher studying penguin colonies at the bottom of the world...

A Not-So-Bubbly Fate for Sea Floor Methane

17 Jan, 2008 10:38 am Good news about methane bubbling up from the ocean floor near Santa Barbara, California

Just Plain Weird: An Odd Star Proves to Be a New Type of Object

5 Dec, 2007 10:35 am On the night after Thanksgiving two years ago, I was at the Keck Telescope, trying to identify some very blue objects in the sky...

The Link Between Agricultural Erosion and Global Warming

19 Nov, 2007 10:37 am Carbon emissions are of great concern worldwide because they trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere and are a major cause of global climate change...

Do the World?s Oceans Take Up Less Carbon Dioxide?

19 Nov, 2007 11:33 am The answer is: Yes, for the North Atlantic over the last decade.

Ad Astra! News and Discoveries from the the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn

29 Oct, 2007 01:01 pm The Cassini-Huygens mission was launched on 15 October 1997; 10 years later, we speak to Professor Andrew Coates, head of Planetary Science Group in the...

Increase in Humidity: A Response to Human-Induced Climate Change

11 Oct, 2007 04:40 pm Scientists have observed significant increase in the specific humidity (a measure of how much water vapour there is in a given volume of air) over the...