Climate change-resilient landscapes IDd in VA, WV The study identifies "strongholds" that could provide habitat to a variety of plants and animals under the extreme climate change predicted by many scientists. [News Source]

Climate change-resilient landscapes identified in Va., W.Va. Study identifies "strongholds" that could provide habitat to a variety of plants and animals under the extreme climate change predicted by many scientists. [News Source]

Global Warming: Arctic Tundra's Climate Change Turns Shrubs Into Trees Tundra is by definition a cold, treeless landscape. But scientists have found that in a part of the Eurasian Arctic, willow and alder shrubs, once stunted by harsh weather, have been growing upward to the height of trees in recent decades. [News Source]

In Pennsylvania coal country, voters not thrilled with their choices. This is coal country, even if there’s hardly any coal anymore. The big play now is natural gas. The Obama administration has touted its support for natural gas drilling, but many people here see the president as unfriendly to fossil fuels. [News Source]

In Pennsylvania coal country, voters not thrilled with their choices. This is coal country, even if there’s hardly any coal anymore. The big play now is natural gas. The Obama administration has touted its support for natural gas drilling, but many people here see the president as unfriendly to fossil fuels. [News Source]

Nuclear, coal power face climate change risk. Warmer water and reduced river flows will cause more power disruptions for nuclear and coal-fired power plants in the United States and Europe in future, scientists say, and lead to a rethink on how best to cool power stations in a hotter world. [News Source]

Geoengineered sky: Bye-bye blue, hello white. One geoengineered global warming fix involves spewing particles of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to cut down on incoming sunlight - and according to a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters, that could make that canopy of deep blue a thing of the past. [News Source]

Climate scientists lament a nation stuck on the wrong debate. While the national climate debate is fixed on whether Earth is warming, climate scientists are focused on understanding how bad it will be. [News Source]

Rio Earth summit on shaky ground. Major players pulling out of the Rio Earth summit is an indicator of the awkward politics and negotiations to move forward with climate change policies, an environmental organisation has said. [News Source]

Global warming turning tundra to forest: study. Plants and shrubs have colonised parts of the Arctic tundra in recent decades growing into small trees, a scientific study found, adding the change may lead to an increase in global warming pressures if replicated on a wider scale. [News Source]

A symbol of the nation, Lebanon’s cedar heavily threatened. Canada without the maple leaf. The United States without the bald eagle. More than mere symbols, they are a part of those nations’ identity. But that could be the fate of the cedar of Lebanon, as deforestation and global warming threatens to wipe out the iconic tree. [News Source]