Tag: climate change
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New Research Shows Tree Roots Regulate CO2, Keep Climate Stable
By Tim Radford Trees have become a source of continuous surprise. Only weeks after researchers demonstrated that old forest giants actually accumulate more carbon than younger, fast-growing trees, British scientists have discovered that the great arbiters of long-term global temperatures may not be the leaves of an oak, pine or eucalyptus, but the roots. [caption id=”attachment_322114″ align=”alignnone”…
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Mainstream Media Goes Big on Climate Change and Extreme Weather Coverage
By Thomas Bishop and Samantha Wyatt This week, all four major broadcast networks covered extreme weather and climate change on their Sunday morning political talk shows. Those programs have largely ignored global warming in recent years, making their effort to address the issue unusual and laudable. But several of the segments also demonstrated the vulnerability inherent in treating science…
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Global Warming Pushes Native Plants to New Habitats Leaving Dependent Species at Risk
By Tim Radford By 2100, vegetation patterns will be shifting in almost half the land area of the planet, according to new research in the journal Global and Planetary Change. Song Feng of the University of Arkansas in the U.S. and colleagues in Nebraska, China and South Korea have taken a long cool look at…
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Chinese Government to Pay Cities $1.6 Billion to Reduce Air Pollution
The Chinese government is so disturbed by its nation’s growing reputation for poor air quality that is willing to pay cities that try to buck the trend. China’s cabinet has announced the development of a fund worth $1.6 billion to reward cities and regions that make efforts to control key areas of pollution, according to a report from…
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Secretary of State John Kerry Calls Climate Change ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’
Yesterday in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged developing nations to focus on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, likening subsequent climate change to weapon of mass destruction, reports the Washington Post. Addressing a group of government officials and students at an American cultural center, Sec. Kerry disparaged climate deniers in the U.S., calling skeptics…