Global Warming and Climate Change News

City makes a difference in tackling climate change (Manila Standard Today)
Sunday April 27th 2008, 11:58 pm

About 6,000 volunteers, local officials and environmentalists gathered to make a difference on Earth Day in Las Piñas City. Mayor Vergel Aguilar said bamboo, mahogany, along with fruit-bearing trees, were planted in a massive drive to take part in tackling climate change. [News Source]

Emissions irrelevant to future climate change? (Environmental News Network)
Sunday April 27th 2008, 9:21 pm

Climate change and the carbon emissions seem inextricably linked. However, new research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Carbon Balance and Management suggests that this may not always hold true, although it may be some time before we reach this saturation point. The land and the oceans contain significantly more carbon than the atmosphere, and exchange carbon dioxide with the ... [News Source]

Workshop on global warming (The New Straits Times)
Sunday April 27th 2008, 9:15 pm

KOTA BARU: Taking care of the environment is an important issue. This was the topic teachers and students faced at the Shell-NSTP Global Climate Change Workshop at a hotel here yesterday. [News Source]

Workshop on global warming (The New Straits Times)
Sunday April 27th 2008, 8:14 pm

KOTA BARU: Taking care of the environment is an important issue. This was the topic teachers and students faced at the Shell-NSTP Global Climate Change Workshop at a hotel here yesterday. [News Source]

Emissions Irrelevant To Future Climate Change? (Science Daily)
Sunday April 27th 2008, 8:13 pm

Climate change and the carbon emissions seem inextricably linked. However, new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Carbon Balance and Management suggests that this may not always hold true, although it may be some time before we reach this saturation point. [News Source]

Climate change: the facts (Guardian Unlimited)
Sunday April 27th 2008, 7:14 pm

The subject of global warming has become impossible to ignore. But what are its implications? And is mankind really to blame? [News Source]

Global warming slows weed invasion (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
Sunday April 27th 2008, 7:05 pm

Tasmanian scientists have discovered a possible benefit to global warming. [News Source]

Emissions irrelevant to future climate change? (EurekAlert!)
Sunday April 27th 2008, 7:02 pm

Climate change and the carbon emissions seem inextricably linked. However, new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Carbon Balance and Management suggests that this may not always hold true, although it may be some time before we reach this saturation point. [News Source]

Study: Earth can’t regulate climate change
Sunday April 27th 2008, 6:25 pm

Eric Cravens, assistant curator at the National Ice Core Lab in Denver, holds up a piece of ice taken from above Lake Vostok, a remote region of Antarctica. The ice offers a glance at hundreds of thousands of years of geologic history. Experts report finding a natural feedback mechanism by which Earth regulates climate, but added that recent carbon emissions have overwhelmed the mechanism's ability to keep up.


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Combating climate change (The Japan Times)
Sunday April 27th 2008, 5:33 pm

SINGAPORE — Two recent news reports have underscored China’s voracious appetite for oil and the impact of unrestrained burning of coal and other fossil fuels on global climate change. Both point to… Read more …



Climate change adds twist to river restoration (The Fresno Bee)
Sunday April 27th 2008, 3:17 am

The best hope for cold-water chinook salmon to survive global warming may be near sweltering Fresno -- in the San Joaquin River, where salmon have been extinct for 60 years. [News Source]