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What will the world actually look like at 1.5°C of warming?

Nov 19, 2016 11:00 am UTC| Nature

The high ambition of the Paris Agreement, to limit global warming to well below 2C, was driven by concern over long-term sea level rise. A warmer climate inevitably means melting ice you dont need a computer model to...

Floods play a vital role in ecosystems – it's time to get out of their way

Nov 18, 2016 09:10 am UTC| Nature

Floods are often seen as a force of destruction. From photographs of crops under water and houses being swamped by swollen rivers, to stories of road, business and public amenity closures, the news during flooding...

CO2 Conversion On Overdrive, Scientists Create Synthetic Scrubber 20 Times Better Than Plants

Nov 18, 2016 06:23 am UTC| Nature

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most common gasses in the earths atmosphere, courtesy of emissions from decaying organic substance and the mountains of wastes that both humans and animals often produce. With the rise in...

Second State Of Liquid Water Discovered By Physicists Via Temperature Variance

Nov 16, 2016 10:34 am UTC| Science Nature

Liquid water is one of the most common compounds on the planet, with over 70 percent of the Earths surface covered with it. As a result, it has been tampered with, experimented on, and subjected to all kinds of tests in...

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Hurt by sea: how storm surges and sea-level rise make coastal life risky

Nov 15, 2016 04:58 am UTC| Nature

Australia is a huge continent, but a coastal nation. About 80% of Australians live within 50km of the coast, and a sea-level rise of 1.1 metres (a high-end scenario for 2100) would put about A$63 billion (in 2008 dollars)...

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Recycling Greenhouse Gases, New Method For Reducing Climate Change Impact

Nov 15, 2016 04:38 am UTC| Nature

Greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide and methane are what causes the heat from the sun to get trapped within the earths atmosphere, thus causing global warming. Now, theres a new scientific method called a super-dry...

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World set for hottest year on record: World Meteorological Organization

Nov 14, 2016 12:41 pm UTC| Nature

2016 is set to be the worlds hottest year on record. According to the World Meteorological Organizations preliminary statement on the global climate for 2016, global temperatures for January to September were 0.88C above...