12-09-25 What if you woke up every day to find that the closest grocery store had moved several miles farther away from your home? Over time, you would have to travel hundreds of extra miles to find essential food for yourself and your family. This is potent...

12-09-14 A new Arctic study in the journal Science is helping to unravel（解开，阐明） an important mystery surrounding climate change: How quickly glaciers can melt and grow in response to shifts in temperature. According to the new research, glaciers on Ca...

12-08-30 Rising sea levels, melting glaciers, more intense rainstorms and more frequent heat waves are among the planetary woes that may come to mind when climate change is mentioned. Now, two University of Michigan researchers say an increased risk of avian...

12-08-27 Only two per cent of Canadians believe climate change is not occurring, a new important survey released August 24 by IPAC-CO2 Research Inc. concluded. The survey comes on the heels of Alberta Premier Alison Redford's recent push for a National Energ...

12-08-16 A new report by U.S. and Canadian scientists analyzes decades of research and concludes that the climate of the Northeast has changed and is likely to change more. The report outlines the effects of climate change on multiple aspects of forests in t...

12-08-09 Climate change is causing a late wake-up call from hibernation（冬眠） for a species of Rocky Mountain ground squirrel and the effect is deadly. A University of Alberta-led international research team examined data on a population of Columbian groun...

12-08-09 For much of the year drought has been plaguing American grasslands. But a recent study found that grasses do not appear to be losing the turf war against climate when it comes to surviving with little precipitation. The Kansas State University-led s...

12-08-03 Our planet's changing climate is devastating communities in Africa through droughts, floods and myriad（无数的） other disasters. Using detailed regional climate models and geographic information systems, researchers with the Climate Change and Afri...

12-08-02 Protecting mangroves to lock carbon away in trees may be an economic way to curb climate change, research suggests. 研究显示，保护红树林将碳锁定在树木中是抑制气候变化的一种经济方式。 Carbon credit schemes already exist for rainforests; the new work...

12-08-02 Given the predicted rise in global temperatures in the coming decades, climate scientists are particularly interested in warm periods that occurred in the geological past. Knowledge of past episodes of global warmth can be used to better understand...