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Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way ...

Amazon UK — Features: New Mint Condition Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon Guaranteed packaging No quibbles returns Author Dave Reay EAN 9780230007543 Edition New Ed ISBN 0230007546 Eligible For Trade In? YES Number Of Pages 224 Publication Date ...More…

Giant Creatures Wiped Out by Hunters, Not Climate

Live Science — A skull of a giant sloth. Credit: University of Florida/Kristen Bartlett Weapon-wielding humans, and not warming temperatures, killed off the sloth and other giant mammals that roamed North America during the last Ice Age, a new study ...More…

Study Reveals Ancient Arctic Climate Swings

Live Science — About 45 million years ago, the Arctic went from being a warm greenhouse to the frosty ice-covered continent that we know today. Scientists have uncovered the Arctic region's history of climate change buried beneath layers of ocean ice from a ...More…

Animal DNA Changing with Climate, Study Finds

Live Science — Global warming could also make Canada an agricultural powerhouse while the U.S. becomes a dustbowl. The Canadian red squirrel. With recent, rapid climate warming, red squirrels are reproducing earlier in the spring as the dates of spruce cone ...More…

Study: Man-made Climate Change Causing Stronger Hurricanes

Live Science — Global warming and not natural variations in ocean cycle are to blame for stronger hurricanes, according to a new study. The increase in the intensity and duration of Atlantic hurricanes in recent decades is due to temperature increases in the ...More…

Americans Warm to Reality of Climate Change

Live Science — Poll shows more Americans are convinced that heat waves and hurricanes can be attributed to global warming. A poll of more than 1,000 likely voters in the United States released this week showed that in the last two years Americans have become ...More…

Stirrings of Sea Creatures Affect Global Climate

Live Science — Lowly ocean phytoplanktons generate five times more power annually than is used by all the humans in the world. The global distribution of phytoplankton power generation as measured by satellite. Credit: William Dewar, Florida State ...More…

Americans Rank Climate Change as Top Environmental Problem

Live Science — A new survey of Americans reveals a dramatic change in their ranking of global warming as a top environmental problem. These pie charts show how American attitudes have changed from doubt to acceptance of global warming. The chart at left ...More…

Al Gore Urges Scientists to Speak Out on Climate Change

Live Science — Gore said that in order to make real changes at the individual and even climate policy level, scientists need to communicate directly with the people making decisions. SAN FRANCISCO-Former Vice President Al Gore said here today that he would ...More…

Climate Change Has Animals Heading for the Hills

Live Science — Chipmunks, mice and squirrels are scurrying to higher ground, apparently chased by warmer temperatures, a new study reveals. SAN FRANCISCO-Chipmunks, mice and squirrels are heading for the hills, perhaps chased to higher elevations by a changing ...More…

Climate Change, Not Humans, Killed Large Beasts

Live Science — What killed the mammoths? A new explanation is instantly controversial. A plot of radiocarbon dates from mammoth, horse, bison, wapiti (elk), moose, and human remains from Alaska and Yukon Territory. Credit: Dale Guthrie Failure to adapt to a ...More…

Collins New Naturalist Library (115) - Climate and Weather

Amazon UK — Features: New Mint Condition Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon Guaranteed packaging No quibbles returns Author John Kington EAN 9780007185016 ISBN 0007185014 Number Of Pages 496 Publication Date 2010-09-02 SKU 122928More…