14th May 2012 Food For Thought
Dave Reay, of Edinburgh University and GHGonline, and colleagues in Europe and the US have estimated the large greenhouse gas emissions cuts made possible by reducing food waste.

 

25th April 2012 Corn and Climate Change
Noah Diffenbaugh and colleagues at Stanfrod University have found that corn prices in the US are made even more sensitive to climate change impacts by binding biofuel targets.

 

25th April 2012 Cut and Thrust
The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has delayed a crucial vote on legislation to determine the proportion of forested land that must be preserved as agricultural land use expands.

 

28th March 2012 Climate Smart Food
Sir John Beddington and colleagues have called for an increase in 'Climate Smart Agriculture' to help provide food security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades.

 

28th March 2012 Pushing the Envelope
Myles Allen, of Oxford University, UK, and colleagues have released findings from recent climate simulations that suggest global temperatures could rise by 3 degrees C by 2050.

 

28th March 2012 Cooler Costas
Fredrik Boberg and Jens Christensen, of the Danish Met Institute, have reported that some regional climate change model projections overestimate the extent of warming.

 

2nd March 2012 Nordhaus Responds
William Nordhaus, an economist at Yale Univiersity, US, has responded to climate change skeptics on six key issues - including the economic impacts - that are frequently raised by them.

 

2nd March 2012 Waste Water Power
Bruce Logan and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University have constructed a device that can generate electricity from waste water. It is hoped the device will provide clean water and power.

 

2nd March 2012 More Midges
Matthew Bayliss and colleagues at the University of Liverpool, UK, have predicted that climate change in the UK risks increasing the spread of vector-borne diseases.

 

22nd February 2012 Altered Amazon
Ahead of the Rio plus 20 meeting in June, Eric Davidson and colleagues at the Woods Hole Research Center, USA, assess the changing carbon fluxes in the Amazon basin.

 

14th February 2012 Sky's the Limit
The Chinese authorities have barred all airlines from joining the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme. China claims the scheme would cost its airlines almost £80 million each year.

 

14th February 2012 Algal Alterations
Stephanie Hinder and colleagues at Swansea University, UK, have reported that algal community composition has altered due to increasing sea temperatures and windier summer weather.

 

26th January 2012 Hotter Summers
The UK's Department of Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) has released its first full assessment of the risks and opportunities of climate change in the UK during the 21st century.

 

26th January 2012 Sow and Reap
Julia Pongratz and colleagues at Stanford University in the US have suggested that geoengineering of the climate using solar radiation management may result in increased crop yields.

 

26th January 2012 Bog Biofuels
Dong Liu and colleagues at Zhejiang University in China have estimated that the use of constructed wetlands to grow biofuels could replace 6.7 percent of national gasoline consumption.

 

7th January 2012 Carbon Counting
Global carbon dioxide concentrations rose by just over 2ppm in 2011, while global temperatures were around 0.5 degrees C higher than the 1951-1980 global average.

 

7th January 2012 Happy New Year
Wishing everyone a very happy New Year and here's to a great 2012. This year sees the landmark Rio+20 conference, plus real potential for progress on a global climate agreement.