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How Do You Feed Nine Billion People?
June 9, 2013 — An international team of scientists has developed crop models to better forecast food production to feed a growing population -- projected to reach 9 billion by mid-century -- in the face of climate ... > full story -
Amazon Forest Fire Risk to Increase in 2013
June 7, 2013 — University and NASA researchers predict that the severity of the 2013 fire season will be considerably higher than in 2011 and 2012 for many Amazon forests in the Southern Hemisphere. The outlook is ... > full story -
Stalagmites Provide New View of Abrupt Climate Events Over 100,000 Years
June 6, 2013 — A new set of long-term climate records based on cave stalagmites collected from tropical Borneo shows that the western tropical Pacific responded very differently than other regions of the globe to ... > full story -
Pollution in Northern Hemisphere Helped Cause 1980s African Drought
June 6, 2013 — Air pollution in the Northern Hemisphere in the mid-20th century cooled the upper half of the planet and pushed rain bands south, contributing to the prolonged and worsening drought in Africa's Sahel ... > full story -
NASA to Study How Pollution, Storms and Climate Mix
June 6, 2013 — NASA aircraft will take to the skies over the southern United States this summer to investigate how air pollution and natural emissions, which are pushed high into the atmosphere by large storms, ... > full story -
Alpine Lakes Reflect Climate Change
June 6, 2013 — Global warming impacts lakes' structure, function and water quality. Increases in temperature as a result of climate change are mirrored in lake waters where temperatures are also on the rise. A new ... > full story -
Irish Chronicles Reveal Links Between Cold Weather and Volcanic Eruptions
June 5, 2013 — Medieval chronicles have given researchers a glimpse into the past to assess how historical volcanic eruptions affected the weather in Ireland up to 1500 years ago. Researchers have successfully ... > full story -
Life on Earth Shockingly Comes from out of This World
June 5, 2013 — Early Earth was not very hospitable when it came to jump starting life. In fact, new research shows that life on Earth may have come from out of this world. Researchers have found that icy comets ... > full story -
Ancient Trapped Water Explains Earth's First Ice Age
June 5, 2013 — Tiny bubbles of water found in quartz grains in Australia may hold the key to understanding what caused the Earth's first ice age, say ... > full story -
Laser-Brightened Cirrus Clouds
June 5, 2013 — Intense laser light pulses increase the brightness of high cirrus clouds. Scientists have been investigating the interactions of laser light and ice clouds using a unique AIDA aerosol and cloud ... > full story
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