Archive for the ‘climate change’ Category

Water troubles in the West may worsen

Friday, February 15th, 2008

A study finds that man-made global warming has been steadily reducing snowpack along mountain ranges. States must make plans now to adapt, scientists say. Human-caused global warming has been shrinking the snowpack across the mountain ranges of the West for five decades, suggesting that the region's long ...

No Pristine Oceans Left, New Map Shows

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Ben Halpern's research team at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has created a global map to track marine ecosystem damage by fishing, pollution, global warming and other possible causes. The project found that more of the marine ecosystem was damaged than earlier models had ...