Stories indexed under: Climate research

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• Post-Kyoto environmental discussion to take place at UW-Madison Nov. 13, 2007 This December in Bali, new international talks will be launched to determine the successor of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change. The science has spoken. We know the problem is real, but how do we move forward with a solution?
• Health toll of climate change seen as ethical crisis Nov. 6, 2007 The public health costs of global climate change are likely to be the greatest in those parts of the world that have contributed least to the problem, posing a significant ethical dilemma for the developed world, according to a new study.
• Illustration: The ethical dimensions of global climate change Nov. 6, 2007
• Wildfire drives carbon levels in northern forests Oct. 31, 2007 Far removed from streams of gas-thirsty cars and pollution-belching factories lies another key player in global climate change. Circling the northern hemisphere, the conifer-dominated boreal forests - one of the largest ecosystems on earth - act as a vast natural regulator of atmospheric carbon levels.
• UW-Madison faculty contributed to global warming reports that led to Gore’s Nobel Oct. 12, 2007 University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty made significant contributions in developing the reports on the implications of global warming that led today (Oct. 12) to the awarding of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
• Hungry insects leave clues to impacts of climate change Aug. 27, 2007
• New certificate prepares students for global change Aug. 9, 2007 Graduate students intrigued by large-scale environmental challenges like climate change will have a new opportunity this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Climate change exhibit opens May 5 in Ashland May 1, 2007 A traveling art and science exhibition focusing on climate change in the Lake Superior region will open Saturday, May 5, at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center in Ashland. An opening reception will be held at the center at 4 p.m. that day.
• Global warming forecasts creation, loss of climate zones March 26, 2007 A new global warming study predicts that many current climate zones will vanish entirely by the year 2100, replaced by climates unknown in today's world.
• New evidence that global warming fuels stronger Atlantic hurricanes Feb. 28, 2007 Atmospheric scientists have uncovered fresh evidence to support the hotly debated theory that global warming has contributed to the emergence of stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean.
• Researcher seeks ‘missing piece’ in climate change models Feb. 13, 2007 To most people, soil is just dirt. But to microbiologists, it is a veritable zoo of bacteria, fungi and nematodes. It's also a vast carbon dioxide factory. As these microorganisms consume carbon-based materials found in soil, they release carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere as a normal part of their metabolism.
• Supercomputer to power climate change study Jan. 10, 2007 Climate researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been given unprecedented access to one of the world's most powerful supercomputers to better understand the causes and consequences of abrupt climate change.
• Third World bears brunt of global warming impacts Nov. 16, 2005 A team of health and climate scientists at UW-Madison and the World Health Organization report in the journal Nature that the growing health impacts of climate change affect different regions in markedly different ways. Ironically, the places that have contributed the least to warming the Earth are the most vulnerable to the death and disease higher temperatures can bring.
• Climate change to bring a wave of new health risks Feb. 21, 2005 Climate change will not only bring about a warmer world, it is also very likely to set the stage for an unhealthier one.
• 150-year global ice record reveals major warming trend Sept. 7, 2000 From sources as diverse as newspaper archives, transportation ledgers and religious observances, scientists have amassed lake and river ice records spanning the Northern Hemisphere that show a steady 150-year warming trend.