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ScienceDaily / Earth and Climate news


Online magazines and Web portals devoted to science, technology, and medicine. Articles are selected from news releases submitted by leading universities and other research organizations around the world.

Cave Study Links Climate Change To California Droughts
15 11 2009 California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to analysis of stalagmites from a cave in the Sierra Nevada.

Lab Machine To Study Glacial Sliding Related To Rising Sea Levels Created
15 11 2009 Researchers have created a glacier in a freezer that could help scientists understand how glaciers slide across their beds. That could help researchers predict how climate change accelerates glacier sliding and contributes to rising sea levels.

Ancient penguin DNA raises doubts about accuracy of genetic dating techniques
15 11 2009 Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches have been routinely underestimating the age of many specimens by 200 to 600 percent.

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Nature / Reports / Climate change


Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology

Confronting the biodiversity crisis
05 05 2010 In 2002, the world's governments agreed to significantly slow the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. Time is almost up, and by most accounts they've failed. Now that climate change is emerging as one of biodiversity's greatest threats, scientists are proposing new ways to tackle the crisis. Hannah Hoag reports.

The geoengineering genie
05 05 2010 Like any human endeavour, geoengineering carries hefty doses of uncertainty, doubt and fear.

Earth, but not as we know it
05 05 2010 In his new book, environmentalist Bill McKibben says we must abandon the notion that economic growth and environmental sustainability are compatible — only then can we prevent a climate catastrophe. Interview by Christine Woodside.

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EurekAlert / Atmospheric science / News


EurekAlert! is an online, global news service operated by AAAS, the science society. EurekAlert! provides a central place through which universities, medical centers, journals, government agencies, corporations and other organizations engaged in research can bring their news to the media.

Purdue, NASA research provides blueprint for molecular basis of global warming
17 11 2009 (Purdue University) A new study indicates that major chemicals most often cited as leading causes of climate change, such as carbon dioxide and methane, are outclassed in their warming potential by compounds receiving less attention.

Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is World's fastest
17 11 2009 (DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is the scientific research community's most powerful computational tool for exploring solutions to some of today's most difficult problems.

Soil experts to discuss terroir, the link between Earth, wine on Nov. 19 in DC
17 11 2009 (American Society of Agronomy) A Congressional educational briefing on Nov. 19 in Washington DC will shed light on how the balance of site selection and vineyard management blend together to provide distinctive grapes which can allow for unique wine characteristics. Soil scientists and vineyards from across the U.S. will present, “The Essence of Earth and Wine: Terroir” on Thursday, November 19, from 5:30-7:00 pm in 2168 Rayburn House Office Building (Gold Room).

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R4D / Climate change


Up-to-date information on DFID’s current research portfolio

Challenging the Development Paradigm: assessing accountability and equity of global institutions in climate-change governance responses to the poor.
21 06 2010 Current This research programme addresses the 'Security, Conflict and Development' thematic highlight. On a planet in which all countries and all sectors are increasingly interconnected, the challenges of climate change require a truly global response. Global institutions, like the UN agencies and international monetary organisations, have a critical role in shaping the world's response to climate change. The World Bank is set to become the leading agency in defining how developing countries can respond to climate change, or mitigate the worst impacts of it, across multiple sectors. The WTO will have a profound effect on the ability of markets and economic growth models to deliver on carbon-neutral technologies; the WHO must find ways of helping the poor to respond to health threats brought about, or compounded, by climate change. Given the global nature of climate change, which respects no national boundaries, the need for accountability in how global institutions and national governments respond to climate-change becomes imperative if equitable growth and development is to be achieved. The right of all countries to seek to develop and grow economically is internationally accepted, but climate change poses a serious dilemma for the existing economic growth and development paradigm which is premised on carbon-based technologies. This creates a further imperative for accountability in formulating and promoting equitable global responses to climate change. Organisations need to be accountable to multiple stakeholders at multiple levels. Yet we know little about the accountability of key organisations vis-à-vis climate change governance or in relation to new models of development. This three year research programme will explore how global and national organisations tasked with responding to climate change-induced threats to poverty-alleviation and public health, are preparing themselves institutionally to meet these challenges. Specifically, how do they remain responsive and accountable to their key stakeholders, especially those poorest and most vulnerable to the impact of climate change? The research aims to develop a new conceptual framework to understand dimensions and role of accountability and good governance in sustainable development in the context of the challenges posed by climate-change. To achieve this aim the programme will conduct five case studies: of the World Bank, World Trade Organisation, World Health Organisation, UK Department for International Development and Ghanaian national institutions. It will involve the implementation of an Accountability Assessment, interviews with key informants and analysis and collation of key documents. It will result in a new conceptual framework for understanding the importance of good governance mechanisms for ensuring accountability in climate change-response to promote the health and development of the poor. Through providing practical recommendations and feedback on improving accountability and governance structures, this research will directly benefit global institutions, like WB, WTO, WHO, bi-lateral donor agencies like DFID, as well as aid-recipient country governments and ministries. Global and bi-lateral institutions have a central role to play in re-defining global action on development and climate change in mutually beneficial ways. This research will contribute to a better understanding by these institutions of the need for equitable policies and accountable governance mechanisms to be central to re-thinking the economic growth models. This will be critical in establishing a more equitable and sustainable model for future development aid and programmes in the context of climate change, that will ultimately benefit the poor.

Climate and Development Knowledge Network
11 06 2010 DFID announces a new climate and development initiative linking over 60 of the world's poorest countries

Systematic Reviews - The deadline for submissions approaches
11 06 2010 The deadline for submission of proposals for DFID's systematic review project is 6 April 2010.

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