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A man sunbathes on rocks at a beach in Melbourne January 31, 2009.
Credit: Reuters/Mick Tsikas

(Reuters) – Australia's top scientists on Monday released a "State of the Climate" report at a time of growing scepticism over climate change as a result of revelations of errors in some global scientific reports.

 
The scientists said their monitoring and research [...]

UB anthropologist Ezra Zubrow and colleagues are investigating climate changes experienced by ancient societies living in remote Arctic regions. (Credit: Image courtesy of University at Buffalo)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 13, 2010) — Since 2004, University at Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has worked intensively with teams of scientists in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, northern [...]

The green algae Botryococcus braunii lives as a colony of individual cells held together by an extracellular matrix, according to Dr. Tim Devarenne, Texas AgriLife Research genticist. In this microscopic image, hydrocarbon oils are being released as large droplets from the matrix. Many more smaller oil droplets can be seen as tiny spheres inside each [...]

North American bird species are "facing a new threat—climate change—that could dramatically alter their habitat and food supply and push many species towards extinction," said Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on Thursday when he announced the new report, "The State of the Birds: 2010 Report on Climate Change."

According to the report, climate changes will [...]

Scarlet tanagers are more than 2% smaller today than in the 1960s.
(R. Mulvihill / Powdermill Avian Research Center)

Songbirds in the US are getting smaller, and climate change is suspected as the cause.

A study of almost half a million birds, belonging to over 100 species, shows that many are gradually becoming lighter and growing shorter wings.
This [...]

Tokyo

Following the success of a half-price subsidy for CO2-busting fuel-cell heat and energy generators for homes, Japan is now poised to ship its attention to supplying the UK and Germany with this hi-tech next-generation energy source.

With over 5,000 fuel cells providing heat and energy for conventional homes up and down Japan, the BBC has learnt [...]

A newly developed method harvests small amounts of waste energy and harnesses them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel. (Credit: iStockphoto/Mustafa Deliormanli)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2010) — Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel.

The [...]

Canopy of the Amazon rain forest. A new study has concluded that Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to a previously published report and claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (Credit: iStockphoto/Warwick Lister-Kaye)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2010) — A new NASA-funded [...]

ScienceDaily (Mar. 12, 2010) — Researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have succeeded in making a significant leap forward in the production of biochemicals and biofuels from waste wood. They discovered that the bacterium Cupriavidus basilensis breaks down harmful by-products which are produced when sugars are released from wood. They also managed [...]

Redtide

The increased frequency and intensity of oxygen-deprived "dead zones" along the world's coasts can negatively impact environmental conditions in far more than just local waters. In the March 12 edition of the journal Science, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science oceanographer Dr. Lou Codispoti explains that the increased amount of nitrous oxide (N2O) produced [...]