Reuters – World food demand will surge this century with a leap in population, highlighting a need to protect soils under strain from climate change, experts said on Thursday.
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AFP – Over 1,100 square kilometres (440 square miles) of land in economically booming southern China will be inundated by rising sea-levels by 2050 due to global warming, state press said Thursday.
LiveScience.com – Global warming will make severe thunderstorms and tornadoes a more common feature of U.S. weather, NASA scientists said today.
Global Warming to Fuel More Severe Tornadoes and Thunderstorms (LiveScience.com)
AFP – Global warming may carry a higher risk of flooding than previously thought, according to a study released on Wednesday by the British science journal Nature.
Flooding risk from global warming badly under-estimated: study (AFP)
AFP – Burning fossil fuels could postpone the next ice age by up to half a million years, researchers at a British university said Wednesday.
Humans have already burned about 300 gigatonnes of carbon of fossil fuels. If 1000 Gt C are burnt then it is likely the next ice age will be skipped. Burning all possible fossil fuels (about 4,000 Gt C) could lead to avoidance of the next five, the study said.
AP – Ireland’s average temperature has been rising at twice the global rate since the early 1980s and parts of the country are becoming wetter and more prone to flooding due to climate change, a government-funded report said Wednesday.
This video brings out all sorts of emotions, from so sad, to soo funny, too whaa???
Scary, yet beautiful, yet scary…
Once an impregnable forest of huge ice blocks, the Northwest Passage has ? for the first time in recorded history ? become almost completely ice-free and open to navigation. Northwest Passage All But Ice-Free
