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- Cultural dimensions of climate change are underestimated, overlooked and misunderstood
- Why Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change
- New way in which plants control flower production
- 'Groundwater inundation' doubles previous predictions of flooding with future sea level rise
- Using rust and water to store solar energy as hydrogen
- Climate change threatens giant pandas' bamboo buffet -- and survival
| Cultural dimensions of climate change are underestimated, overlooked and misunderstood Posted: 11 Nov 2012 12:39 PM PST The impact of climate change on many aspects of cultural life for people all over the world is not being sufficiently accounted for by scientists and policy-makers. Cultural factors are key to making climate change real to people and to motivating their responses, new research suggests. |
| Why Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change Posted: 11 Nov 2012 12:38 PM PST Scientists have the first direct evidence that marked changes to Antarctic sea ice drift have occurred over the last 20 years, in response to changing winds. They can now explain why, unlike the dramatic losses reported in the Arctic, the Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change. |
| New way in which plants control flower production Posted: 11 Nov 2012 12:38 PM PST The timing of flowering in plants is critical. It can have profound effects on flower, fruit, and seed production, and consequently agricultural yields. This process is known to depend on daylight and temperature cues. However, biologists now reveal there is a second, previously unknown, mechanism that controls flowering. |
| 'Groundwater inundation' doubles previous predictions of flooding with future sea level rise Posted: 11 Nov 2012 12:38 PM PST A new study by researchers in Hawaii shows that besides marine inundation (flooding), low-lying coastal areas may also be vulnerable to "groundwater inundation," a factor largely unrecognized in earlier predictions on the effects of sea level rise. |
| Using rust and water to store solar energy as hydrogen Posted: 11 Nov 2012 12:37 PM PST How can solar energy be stored so that it can be available any time, day or night, when the sun shining or not? Scientists are developing a technology that can transform light energy into a clean fuel that has a neutral carbon footprint: hydrogen. The basic ingredients of the recipe are water and metal oxides, such as iron oxide, better known as rust. |
| Climate change threatens giant pandas' bamboo buffet -- and survival Posted: 11 Nov 2012 12:37 PM PST China's endangered wild pandas may need new dinner reservations – and quickly – based on models that indicate climate change may kill off swaths of bamboo that pandas need to survive. |
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