13-09-12 Many climate studies have predicted that tree species will respond to global warming by migrating via seed dispersal to cooler climates. But a new study of 65 different species in 31 eastern states finds evidence of a different, unexpected response....

13-09-11 Researchers have found evidence to suggest that climate change, rather than humans, was the main factor that drove the woolly mammoth to extinction. 研究人员发现导致猛犸象灭绝的证据，不是人类活动，而是气候变化。 The traditional view of the woolly ma...

13-09-04 Shocks caused by climate and seasonal change could be used to aid recovery of some of the world's badly-degraded coral reefs, an international team of scientists has proposed. A new report by Australian and Swedish marine scientists in the journal F...

13-09-02 Climate change is helping pests and diseases that attack crops to spread around the world, a study suggests. 研究发现，气候变化助长了农作物害虫和疾病的全球蔓延。 Researchers from the universities of Exeter and Oxford have found crop pests are moving...

13-08-29 Scientists expect the future climate to become warmer, and that this will apply to the Arctic in particular. Here the temperature is expected to increase considerably more than the average on Earth, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climat...

13-08-21 Developing countries have submitted a proposal for a mid-term financing target for 2015, which is meant to ensure that the $100 billion a year in climate financing that developed countries have pledged to provide by 2020 in climate financing is guar...

13-08-15 Comparing plant communities today with a survey taken 50 years ago, a UA-led research team is providing the first on-the-ground evidence for Southwestern plants being pushed to higher elevations by an increasingly warmer and drier climate. In a rare...

13-08-10 Periodic flooding in Texas -- one the most flood-prone states in the nation -- cannot be firmly linked to climate change due to numerous dams and other humanmade structures introduced over the years, according to a University of Iowa study. The rese...

13-08-06 Chronic harvesting of a tropical tree that many local communities in Western Africa depend on can alter the tree's reproduction and drastically curtail（缩减） fruit and seed yields over the tree's lifetime, according to a new study. The study, whic...

13-08-05 Scientists from UC Irvine and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have developed a new computer model to measure global warming's effect on soil worldwide that accounts for how bacteria and fungi in soil control carbon. They found that soil...