Micro-Blog
About
Home
Home
Blogs
Business
Celebrity
Energy
Fashion
Lifestyle
Nature
News
Science
Technology
Transport
Welcome to
Climate Crunch
,
The complete environmental news service.
search our news via the categories or enter your own search text in the panel above.
If you like this site please share.
Generating
Unable to refresh content
What's popular - Science
Arctic ice: Less than meets the eye
Electricity Out of Thin Air Could Be The Next Big Power Source
Finland Plans to Build the World's First 'Green Highway'
Add salt as required: the recipe for fresh water
Horned turtles butchered to extinction
Antibacterial socks may boost greenhouse emissions
RFID Chips Can Be Made of Wood, to Tag Trees Without Adulterating the Timber
Atomic Jenga could turn domestic refrigerators green
Beyond decibels: Planning the new sounds of the city
Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950
Road killed: Australia's common wombat could soon be uncommon
Recommended: The Changing Arctic Landscape
Costs and values: The legacy of the Exxon Valdez disaster
Weather or Not?: Last Winter's Record Snow Driven by Short-Term Meteorologic Patterns, Not Long-Term Climate Change
E. coli engineered to make convenient 'drop-in' biofuel
US food waste worth more than offshore drilling
Galapagos: off the danger list, still in danger
Which oil-mopping technology will win $1.4m X prize?
Solar cycle may drive Venice's floods
Some trees 'farm' bacteria to help supply nutrients
Chemicals are likely cause of feminization of fish present in two rivers in Alberta, Canada, researchers find
Black carbon implicated in global warming
Reforestation projects capture more carbon than industrial plantations, new research reveals
Research of cell movements in developing frogs reveals new twists in human genetic disease
Happy 35th birthday, global warming!
Toilet Tech: A Power Generator Turns Falling Wastewater Into Electricity
Environmental Visionaries: The Solar Roadrunner
Six Quiet Climate Villains
Climate control: Is CO2 really in charge?
Ice shelf was kept intact by underwater ridge
The Green Dream: Going Gray, Saving Blue
Environmental Visionaries: The Nuclear Revivalist
Ancient oceans belched stagnant CO2 into the skies
Climate Change Commitment II
BP's three-pronged attack on Deepwater Horizon leak
Terrifying Sinkhole Opens in Guatemala, Swallows Three-Story Building
Did early hunters cause climate change?
Ocean heat content increases update
Malaria in retreat despite warmer climate
Pinocchio frog and dwarf wallaby: New species found
What we can learn from studying the last millennium (or so)
Plenty of wave energy to be harvested close to shore
Dents in Earth's gravitational field due to plumes
Claude Allègre: The Climate Imposter
World grabs more and more toilet paper
Gallery: Earth From Above
World's third-largest dam gets the go-ahead
Blame the volcano trouble on sun and global warming
Forensic DNA blow to commercial whaling proposals
Skip the hard cell: Flexible solar power is on its way
View more popular articles at our micro-blog
Generating
Unable to refresh content
Science Daily
Increase in Cambodia's vultures gives hope to imperiled scavengers
While vultures across Asia teeter on the brink of extinction, the vultures of Cambodia are increasing in number, providing a beacon of hope for these threatened scavengers, according wildlife conservation experts...
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Satellite data reveals why migrating birds have a small window to spread bird flu
In 2005 an outbreak of the H5N1 'bird flu' virus in South East Asia led to widespread fear with predictions that the intercontinental migration of wild birds could lead to global pandemic. Such fears were never realised, and now new research reveals why the global spread of bird flu by direct migration of wildfowl is unlikely, while also providing a new framework for quantifying the risk of avian-borne diseases...
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
New self-assembling photovoltaic technology repairs itself
Scientists have created a novel set of self-assembling molecules that can turn sunlight into electricity; the molecules can be repeatedly broken down and then reassembled quickly, just by adding or removing an additional solution...
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Lake Michigan ecosystem may crash: 'Doughnut' of phytoplankton disappearing
In 1998, Charlie Kerfoot discovered a "doughnut" of phytoplankton circulating in Lake Michigan, helping to feed the lake's famous fishery. Just 12 later, the doughnut is disappearing, and Kerfoot fears that the lake's ecosystem will crash, taking with it much of the fish biomass...
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Transition metal catalysts could be key to origin of life, scientists report
Scientists propose that an overlooked type of biological catalyst -- metal-ligand complexes -- could have jump-started metabolism and life itself, deep in hydrothermal ocean vents...
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Click here to view more from this site
Generating
Unable to refresh content
Generating
Unable to refresh content
Scientific American
Carbon Dioxide from Cars, Part 2
[More] Carbon - Environment - Carbon Cycle - Carbon Management - Carbon dioxide..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Wind Turbine or Airplane? New Radar Could Cut Through the Signal Clutter
Wind turbines function best in wide-open spaces where they can capture airflow unobstructed by buildings or mountains. Unfortunately, these same conditions are also optimal for aircraft takeoffs and landings, creating tension between wind energy utilities and airports in a number of locations worldwide. Utility-scale wind turbines, many of which stand more than 100 meters tall, can interfere with the radar used to safely guide aircraft. [More] ..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Wee ants protect African savanna trees from elephants
It's a David versus Goliath kind of story, with an ecological twist: In African savannas (regions with both trees and grass), acacia-dwelling ants can repel voracious, tree-eating elephants, according to new research by published online September 2 in Current Biology . [More] Tree - Savanna - Current Biology - Goliath - Biology..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
How Can Los Angeles Adapt to Coming Climate Change?
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Matthew Kahn's book Climatopolis .Los Angeles is a hedonist’s paradise. At night, you can cruise the Sunset Strip. Although The Doors no longer play there, you may run into Paris Hilton or Britney Spears before seeing Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at a red-carpet event. During the winter, you might venture downtown to watch Kobe Bryant and the Lakers play. Every day of the year you can sit o..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
MIND Reviews: The Art of Choosing
The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar. Hachette Book Group, 2010 [More] Sheena Iyengar - Arts - Literature - TED - Coca-Cola..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Click here to view more from this site
New Scientist
Mobile chargers could keep electric cars juiced up
Mobile charging units that respond to in-car sensors could ensure that electric car owners never need fear getting stranded..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Pakistan's flood weather eased Atlantic hurricanes
The stalled weather pattern behind floods in Pakistan and a heatwave in Russia may have delayed the start of the Atlantic hurricane season..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Second super-fast flip of Earth's poles found
Theory says the Earth's magnetic field can't flip in just a few years, yet for the second time evidence has been found of it happening in the past..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Briefing: How bad is the new Gulf oil rig fire?
Less than five months after the largest oil spill in US history, another fire has occurred on an oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Road to cut off Serengeti migration route
Tanzania's government plans to build a road through Serengeti National Park, cutting through the migratory route of 2 million wildebeest and zebra..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Click here to view more from this site
Generating
Unable to refresh content
Real Climate
IPCC report card
Update: Nature has just published a thoughtful commentary on the report The Inter-Academy Council report on the processes and governance of the IPCC is now available. It appears mostly sensible and has a lot of useful things to say about improving IPCC processes – from suggesting a new Executive to be able to speak for IPCC [...]..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Doing it yourselves
Surface temperature data sets, surfactemperatures.org, Hadley, Broberg, GSOD, McShane and Wyner, paleoclimate reconstructions, BAMS State of the Climate 2009..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
The Key to the Secrets of the Troposphere
A response from Justin Wood, writing to me from Australia after my previous post (cited with permission below), has prompted me to write a follow-up on the story of the greenhouse effect (GHE). I wonder if you’ve seen this terrible description of the greenhouse effect on a UNFCCC background page http://unfccc.int/essential_background/feeling_the_heat/items/2903.php It actually says that incoming [...]..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Monckton makes it up
Christopher Monckton, Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, making stuff up...
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Expert Credibility in Climate Change – Responses to Comments
Expert credibility in climate science, consensus and the Anderegg PNAS study..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Click here to view more from this site
Popular Science
MIT's Self-Assembling Solar Cells Recycle Themselves Repeatedly, Just Like Plant Cells
MIT's Test Cell Patrick Gillooly, MIT Plants are extremely efficient converters of light into energy, more or less setting the bar for researchers creating photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight into electricity. As such, researchers are constantly trying to mimic the tricks that millions of years of evolution and development have taught to plant biology. Now, a team of MIT scientists believe they've done it, creating a synthetic, self-assembl..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Oil Rig Explodes in the Gulf of Mexico (Again)
Miss the good old days of daily oil disaster news Worry not, for another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded this morning, leaving all 13 crew members in the water but - according to initial reports - all are alive and only one is injured. The rig is owned by Mariner Energy (somewhere a BP exec is breathing again) and is not currently producing, according to the Coast Guard. Updated. Details are sketchy right now, but rescuers are en route to..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Future Mars Colonists Could Learn To Terraform By Studying Darwin's Methods
Ascension Island Charles Darwin's artificial forest captures moisture from clouds that drift over the volcanic peaks on Ascension Island. Google Earth The father of evolution apparently played God with a tropical ecosystem 160 years ago, and the results could inform future experiments to terraform Mars, botanists say. The BBC recounts how Charles Darwin helped build an artificial forest on Ascension Island, one of his subjects of study from his t..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Climate Villain Bjørn Lomborg Does U-Turn, Says Global Warming is a $100 Billion Problem
Bjorn Lomborg Lomborg.com Apparently, some tigers can change their stripes -- especially if they have books to sell. One of our favorite climate villains, the Danish economist Bjørn Lomborg, has apparently warmed to the idea of climate change, and now says it's a problem on which the world ought to spend $100 billion annually. Lomborg's forthcoming book, Smart Solutions to Climate Change, declares that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the c..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
By 2035, Smarter Technology Should Triple Efficiency of Regular Gas-Powered Cars, If They're Still Around
A University of Michigan researcher thinks we can triple the fuel economies in our petroleum-powered vehicles in the next 25 years. All we need to do is replace horsepower with brainpower. John DeCicco, a lecturer at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at Michigan, isn't bearish on alternative fuels or electric vehicles, but he argues that the most cost-effective means of reducing carbon footprints and keeping fuel prices from swallo..
TAG
Click here to tag this as a popular article.
Click here to view more from this site