While the debate continues among climate experts, international bodies are studying the economic and social effects of the catastrophes caused by cyclones in the Caribbean basin, with the aim of designing and implementing adaptation measures to help countries cope with natural disasters. "Over the next few years, we will continue to have active hurricane seasons, unless an El Niño episode happens ... read more >>

Just below the ocean's surface lies a carbon powerhouse: seagrass meadows. New research in Nature Geoscience estimates that the world's seagrass meadows conservatively store 19.9 billion metric tons of carbon, even though the threatened marine ecosystems make up only 0.2 percent of Earth's surface. The findings lend support to the idea that seagrass protection and restoration could play a major r ... read more >>

Seagrasses are a vital part of the solution to climate change and, per unit area, seagrass meadows can store up to twice as much carbon as the world's temperate and tropical forests. ... read more >>

Some challenging comments about the IPCC report. ... read more >>

Doping may be a no-no for athletes, but researchers in the University of Florida's physics department say it was key in getting unprecedented power conversion efficiency from a new graphene solar cell created in their lab. Graphene solar cells are one of industry's great hopes for cheaper, durable solar power cells in the future. But previous attempts to use graphene, a single-atom-thick honeycom ... read more >>

On May 5, 2012, Japan shut down its Tomari 3 nuclear reactor on the northern island of Hokkaido for inspection, marking the first time in over 40 years that the country had not a single nuclear power plant generating electricity. The March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown shattered public confidence in atomic energy, thus far making it politically imposs ... read more >>

Recently, with the implementation of continued and matching construction and water saving projects in large-sized I, information management level of water resources has been require much higher. However, the management of water resources quite lag, and traditional manual work can not share the efficient data information, which resulted in low management efficiency in ID. All these problems have c ... read more >>

Pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds, according to a computational study published May 10 in Geophysical Research Letters. How much the warming effect of these clouds offsets the cooling that other clouds provide is not yet clear. To find out, researchers need to incorporate this new-found warming into global climate models. Pollution strengthens thunderstorm clo ... read more >>

There's some new research showing how man-made pollution, such as black carbon soot, is contributing to the poleward shift. ... read more >>

It is highly likely that stock water supplies have been contaminated on properties affected by flood waters. ... read more >>