Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters / Black carbon, the soot produced by burning fossil fuels and biomass, is a more potent atmospheric pollutant than previously thought, according to a new study. Emitted by diesel engines, brick kilns and wood-fired cookstoves, black carbon is second only to carbon dioxide as the most powerful climate pollutant, according to the study published […] Read more
Black carbon a worse pollutant than feared
Impact of climate change hitting home, U.S. report finds
Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters / The consequences of climate change are now hitting the United States on several fronts, including health, infrastructure, water supply, agriculture and especially more frequent severe weather, a congressionally mandated study has concluded. A draft of the U.S. National Climate Assessment, released Jan. 11, said observable change to the climate in the past half-century […] Read more
U.S. winter likely to continue hot weather trend
Reading Time: 2 minutes After a hot spring and a scorching summer, this winter is likely to continue a U.S. warming trend that could make 2012 the hottest year since modern record-keeping began, U.S. weather experts said Oct. 18. Drought that ravaged much of the United States this year may spread in the coming months, said Mike Halpert at […] Read more
U.S. winter likely to continue hot weather trend
After a hot spring and a scorching summer, this winter is likely to continue a U.S. warming trend that could make 2012 the hottest year since modern record-keeping began, U.S. weather experts said Oct. 18. Drought that ravaged much of the United States this year may spread in the coming months, said Mike Halpert at […] Read more
September tied global heat record — again
Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters / Last month tied for the warmest September in the global modern record, scientists at the U.S. government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Oct. 15. This September tied with the same month in 2005 for the record. The land-and-sea global average temperature was 15.67 C, .67 C above the 20th century average. In […] Read more
Severe Drought Could Hit World’s Most Populous Areas — Study
Reading Time: 2 minutes Some of the world’s most populous areas – southern Europe, northern Africa, the western U.S. and much of Latin America – could face severe, even unprecedented drought by 2100, researchers said Oct. 19. Increasing drought has long been forecast as a consequence of climate change, but a new study from the U.S. National Center for […] Read more
Climate Change Could Worsen African “Mega-Droughts”
Reading Time: 2 minutes The recent decades-long drought that killed 100,000 people in Africa’s Sahel may be a small foretaste of monstrous “mega-droughts” that could grip the region as global climate change worsens, scientists reported April 16. Droughts, some lasting for centuries, are part of the normal pattern in sub-Saharan Africa. But the added stress of a warming world […] Read more
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