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A University of Oklahoma technology — GeoChip — played a critical role in an intensive study of the dispersed oil…
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Many of Asia’s glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change.
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An estimated 800,000 people affected by the catastrophic floods in Pakistan can only be reached by helicopter, the United Nations…
Mass of polar air also hangs over Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil
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DANDONG, Liaoning, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) — Three people were missing and about 51,000 people had been evacuated as of…
Credit: Pakistan Meteorology Department.
Richard B Rood:
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Scientists can now study climate change in far more detail with powerful new computer software released by the National Center…
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Based on a series of key questions, this publication aims to address confusion created by contradictory information…
An expanded network of boreholes across the northern hemisphere has confirmed that permafrost throughout polar and sub-polar regions is thawing,…
Several regions of the world are currently coping with severe weather-related events: flash floods and widespread flooding in large parts…
2010 is becoming the year of the heatwave, with record temperatures set in 17 countries.
Envisat has been observing a rare event in the Arctic since early August – a giant iceberg breaking off the…
The entire ice mass of Greenland will disappear from the world map if temperatures rise by as little as 2C,…
Production of rice—the world’s most important crop for ensuring food security and addressing poverty—will be thwarted as temperatures increase in…
Rescuers racing against a potential new deluge on Wednesday hurried to drain an unstable lake formed by China’s worst mudslides…
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The 2009 State of the Climate report draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the…
Regions across the world have been buffeted by extremes of weather, drought and floods.
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Pakistan’s worst floods in 80 years have killed at least 1,600 people and affected the lives of more than four…
The vast majority of the oil from the BP oil spill has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, recovered from…
BP embarked Tuesday on an operation that could seal the biggest offshore oil leak in U.S. history once and for…
The death toll from hundreds of wildfires across Russia rose to 34 today as more than 2,200 people were left…
The two main objectives of the research were to examine global trends in phytoplankton over time and to determine what…
The 3rd Commission of the 64th General Assembly of the United Nations made history today by overwhelmingly adopting the draft…
Floods triggered by exceptionally heavy monsoon rains in the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) have killed at least 800 people…
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Officials from BP conducted a technical briefing to provide an update on response efforts to contain the oil spill in…
