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Climate Change News
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Research of cell movements in developing frogs reveals new twists in human genetic disease
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Mutations in a gene known as "Fritz" may be responsible for causing human genetic disorders such as Bardet-Biedl syndrome, developmental biologists, human geneticists and cell biologists have found.
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Reforestation projects capture more carbon than industrial plantations, new research reveals
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Australian scientists researching environmental restoration projects have found that the reforestation of damaged rainforests is more efficient at capturing carbon than controversial softwood monoculture plantations. The research challenges traditional views on the efficiency of industrial monoculture plantations.
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Black carbon implicated in global warming
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Increasing the ratio of black carbon to sulfate in the atmosphere increases climate warming, suggests a new study.
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Chemicals are likely cause of feminization of fish present in two rivers in Alberta, Canada, researchers find
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Chemicals present in two rivers in southern Alberta are likely the cause of the feminization of fish, say researchers.
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Some trees 'farm' bacteria to help supply nutrients
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Some trees growing in nutrient-poor forest soil may get what they need by cultivating specific root microbes to create compounds they require. These microbes are exceptionally efficient at turning inorganic minerals into nutrients that the trees can use.
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Best hope for saving Arctic sea ice is cutting soot emissions, say researchers
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Soot from the burning of fossil fuels and solid biofuels contributes far more to global warming than has been thought, according to a new study. But, unlike carbon dioxide, soot lingers only a few weeks in the atmosphere, so cutting emissions could have a significant and rapid impact on the climate. Controlling it may be the only option for saving the Arctic sea ice before it all melts.
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Polarstern expedition: Autonomous underwater vehicle dives under the Arctic ice
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The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association for the first time sent its Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) on an under-ice mission at about 79° North. The four-metre-long, torpedo shaped underwater vehicle was deployed from the research icebreaker Polarstern under heavy pack ice. The vehicle was subsequently recovered by helicopter.
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Body of evidence: New fast, reliable method to detect gravesoil
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Finding bodies buried by someone who wanted them to stay undiscovered can be difficult. However a new technique can reliably detect biochemical changes in a decomposing cadaver.
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New theory of why midcontinent faults produce earthquakes
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A new theory may solve the mystery of why the New Madrid fault, which lies in the middle of the continent and not along a tectonic plate boundary, produces large earthquakes such as the ones that shook the eastern United States in 1811 and 1812.
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Signs of reversal of Arctic cooling: Rapid temperature rise in the coldest region of mainland Europe
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Parts of the Arctic have cooled over the past century, but temperatures have been rising steeply since 1990, according to a summer temperature reconstruction for the past 400 years produced on the base of tree rings from regions beyond the Arctic Circle.
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