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Black carbon a worse pollutant than feared

By Deborah Zabarenko February 1, 2013

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

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Impact of climate change hitting home, U.S. report finds

By Deborah Zabarenko January 23, 2013

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

Crops, Weather

U.S. winter likely to continue hot weather trend

By Ayesha Rascoe, Deborah Zabarenko November 10, 2012

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

General, Markets, Weather

U.S. winter likely to continue hot weather trend

By Ayesha Rascoe, Deborah Zabarenko October 22, 2012

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

News

September tied global heat record — again

By Deborah Zabarenko October 20, 2012

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

News

Severe Drought Could Hit World’s Most Populous Areas — Study

By Deborah Zabarenko November 22, 2010

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

News

Climate Change Could Worsen African “Mega-Droughts”

By Deborah Zabarenko April 27, 2009

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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Black carbon a worse pollutant than feared

Impact of climate change hitting home, U.S. report finds

U.S. winter likely to continue hot weather trend

U.S. winter likely to continue hot weather trend

September tied global heat record — again

Severe Drought Could Hit World’s Most Populous Areas — Study

Climate Change Could Worsen African “Mega-Droughts”

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