You can really trust the oil industry: ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, said it would stop funding climate change deniers. But company records for 2008 show hundreds of thousands of dollars being funneled into fringe “think tanks” and trusts with a record of producing misleading and inaccurate information about climate change.
The Amur tiger, native to the Russian steppe, is down to an “effective” genetic population of about 35 individuals, a new study claims. Even though the population has grown from about that many in total in the 1940’s to nearly 1000, the tiger’s genetic diversity remains critical.
The intertropical convergence zone, a rain band just north of the Equator which determines the supply of fresh water to nearly a billion people, has been creeping north for at least 300 years at a rate of around one mile per year. The cause? Atmospheric warming.
Sea-ice between Greenland and Svalbard (north of Norway) is less than at any time in the last 800 years, new research suggests, with the greatest loss of ice occurring in the first decade of the 20th century.
A “microstructural” study of pollution in Britain is using 100 mobile measuring devices strapped to cars, buses, cyclists and even pedestrians to measure five different traffic pollutants in four cities. The devices will report via the mobile telephone network and provide real-time fine detail data for researchers.
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