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26th January 2012 Hotter
Summers
The UK's Department of Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) has
released its first full assessment of the risks of 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.
21st December 2011 Warming
News
Krijn Paaijmans and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University,
US, have reported that a warming climate may decrease, rather than
increase, transmission of some vector borne diseases.
21st December 2011 Bug
Bursts
Jizhong Zhou and colleagues at the University of Oklahoma have highlighted
the importance of considering microbes when assessing key climate
change feedbacks.
21st December 2011 Arctic
Mud
The US Department of Energy is funding a large research programme
to examine how permafrost soil carbon stocks in the Arctic will
respond to rapid warming.
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