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New Director for Zuckerman Institute
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is pleased to announce that Professor Kerry Turner will be Director of the new Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research. Professor Turner is currently Director of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) based in the School of Environmental Sciences, and he... view more... (2002-10-22)

Press Invitation: Launch of Climate Strategies
PRESS INVITATION Launch of Climate Strategies Monday 9 July 1.00 - 2.30 pm at Chatham House, St James's Square, London YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE LAUNCH MEETING OF CLIMATE STRATEGIES - A NEW INTERNATONAL ORGANISATION, SPONSORED BY THE SHELL FOUNDATION, INTENDED TO SUPPORT COHESIVE POLICY RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE. Following the international... view more... (2001-07-02)

Ice Ages and rivers may have affected gorilla diversification
Geography and historical climate change may have both played a major role in gorilla evolutionary diversification, according to a new genetic study by Cardiff University and the University of New Orleans.   view more (2007-12-11)

Competition May Be Reason For Bigger Brain
For the past 2 million years, the size of the human brain has tripled, growing much faster than other mammals. Examining the reasons for human brain expansion, University of Missouri researchers studied three common hypotheses for brain growth: climate change, ecological demands and social competition.   view more (2009-06-23)

Planet-sized solutions for global warming: International experts evaluate the options
Big ideas for reducing the impacts of climate change are being evaluated by an international line-up of leading scientists from the US, mainland Europe and the UK at a symposium in Cambridge this week. The scientists are coming together to evaluate which large-scale bio-engineering, geo-engineering and chemical engineering ideas to combat global... view more... (2004-01-05)

Climate Computer Modeling Heats Up
New "petascale" computer models depicting detailed climate dynamics, and building the foundation for the next generation of complex climate models, are in the offing.   view more (2008-09-09)

Impact of global warming on weather patterns underestimated
The impact of global warming on European weather patterns has been underestimated, according to a new report published in Nature this week.   view more (2005-09-22)

Carbon sinks losing the battle with rising emissions
The stabilising influence that land and ocean carbon sinks have on rising carbon emissions is gradually weakening, say scientists attending this week's international Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.   view more (2009-03-17)

A global responsibility to help vulnerable communities adapt
For one international community - the 165,000 strong Inuit community dispersed across the Arctic coastline in small, remote coastal settlements in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Siberia - it is already too late to prevent some of the negative effects of climate change.   view more (2009-05-28)

Geoengineering climate requires more research, cautious consideration and appropriate restrictions
Geoengineering - deliberately manipulating physical, chemical, or biological aspects of the Earth system to confront climate change - could contribute to a comprehensive risk management strategy to slow climate change but could also create considerable new risks.   view more (2009-07-22)

Should we implement the Kyoto protocol? Spiked and Natural Environment Research Council launch debate on global warming.
On Tuesday 20 November, the online publication spiked and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) are launching a debate on global warming. To initiate the debate, Professor Bj'¸rn Lomborg, author of the controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist, will put the case against implementing the Kyoto protocol. Dr Mike Hulme, executive... view more... (2001-11-13)

Climate change threats to HIV rates
Social factors, including economic pressures caused by climate change, could lead to an increase in HIV infection rates world-wide, warns a leading researcher from the University of New South Wales (UNSW).   view more (2008-04-30)

Reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow climate change
Because land use changes are responsible for 50 percent of warming in the US, policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation and urbanization on climate change, in addition to greenhouse gas emissions.   view more (2009-11-11)

Aphids are sentinels of climate change
Aphids are emerging as sentinels of climate change, researchers at BBSRC-supported Rothamsted Research have shown. One of the UK's most damaging aphids - the peach-potato aphid (Myzus persicae) - has been found to be flying two weeks earlier for every 1 degree C rise in mean temperature for January and February combined.   view more (2008-08-07)

Rise in California temperatures likely to affect crops
Increasing temperatures in California during the next 45 years could negatively affect the amount of almonds, walnuts, oranges, avocados and table grapes that Americans put on their tables.   view more (2006-12-05)

Global warming increases species extinctions worldwide
Global warming has already caused extinctions in the most sensitive habitats and will continue to cause more species to go extinct over the next 50 to 100 years, confirms the most comprehensive study since 2003 on the effects of climate change on wild species worldwide by a University of Texas at Austin biologist.   view more (2006-11-15)

Climate change will affect carbon sequestration in oceans, model shows
The direct injection of carbon dioxide deep into the ocean has been suggested as one method to help control rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and mitigate the effects of global warming.   view more (2005-09-08)

Eating less red meat can prevent cancer, heart attacks and global warming
Raising livestock also accounts for around 18% of greenhouse gases. It is therefore possible to act against climate change and reduce cardiovascular and cancer deaths, by cutting the production and consumption of 'red meat' from these animals.   view more (2009-08-31)

Climate gas could disrupt food chain
Levels of a climate cooling gas will change as carbon dioxide increases, affecting food webs along the way, said Dr Michael Steinke at a Science Media Centre press briefing today.   view more (2007-12-11)

Catastrophic 'lake burst' chills climate
Ocean circulation changes during the present warm interglacial were more extensive than previously thought, according to new research by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Cardiff University.   view more (2006-06-30)
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