Scientists from the University of Washington recently unveiled a new take on an old proposal to cool the Earth by artificially producing cloud cover over swaths of ocean to reflect away light, part of a process known as 'marine cloud brightening'.
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Plants subjected to a previous period of drought learn to deal with the stress thanks to their memories of the experience, new research has found. 
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We've been recording global surface temperatures since 1880, the beginning of what meteorologists call the modern record. In that time, worldwide temperatures have been on the rise.
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SYDNEY: Climate change may quadruple the loss of life due to extreme heat in the city, a new Australian study has predicted. Cunrui Huang and colleagues at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane investigated how temperature changes affect the death rate in Brisbane. The study adopted a ground-breaking way of measuring climate change deaths, which could become standard for similar studies carried out for other cities. "This is something every individual city has to look at," said co-author Adrian Barnett, explaining that cities around the world have unique climate and housing conditions. The results appear in Nature Climate Science today.
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New research shows shrubs and other plants infiltrating the countryside and advancing northward in Quebec.
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Natural climate variability is extremely unlikely to have contributed more than about one-quarter of the temperature rise observed in the past 60 years, reports a pair of Swiss climate modellers in a paper published online today. Most of the observed warming — at least 74 % — is almost certainly due to human activity, they write in Nature Geoscience1.
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The world is now home to 7 billion people, each of whom contributes to the carbon emissions that are slowly cooking the globe. To find out how growing population affects our plans to deal with climate change, we talked with Princeton’s Robert Socolow, co-creator of one of the best models for thinking about how to prevent climate change.
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BEST researchers compiled thousands of data sets on temperature anomalies over the course of two centuries into one alarming video of a warming world.
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Giant dinosaurs could have warmed the planet with their flatulence, say scientists.
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Researchers claim to have solved the 'missing energy' discrepancy between atmospheric and ocean temperature measurements.
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The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. Via José Gonçalves
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Fast-track warming in Europe is making butterflies and birds fall behind in the move to cooler habitats and prompting a worrying turnover in alpine plant species, studies published Sunday said.
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Arctic air temperatures were approximately 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit higher in 2011 than the baseline number for the previous three decades.
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(AP) -- Brighten clouds with sea water? Spray aerosols high in the stratosphere? Paint roofs white and plant light-colored crops? How about positioning 'sun shades' over the Earth?
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Outside its capital Ulan Bator, Mongolia is launching the world's largest ice-making experiment in hopes of combating global warming and the urban heat island effect. "The project aims to artificially create 'naleds'—ultra-thick slabs of ice that occur naturally in far northern climes when rivers or springs push through cracks in the surface to seep outwards during the day and then add an extra layer of ice during the night." If successful, the technique could be used in other northern cities.
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