Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Glaciers in south-west China feel the brunt of climate change
Significant increases in annual temperatures are having a devastating affect on glaciers in the mountainous regions of south-western China, potentially affecting natural habitats, tourism and wider economic development. In a study published today in IOP Publishing’s Environmental Research Letters, scientists examined data from 111 weather stations across south-western China and have shown that temperature patterns [...]
Today’s physics news: giant pipe and balloon to pump water into the sky in climatic experiment, and more
Today’s physics news: giant pipe and balloon to pump water into the sky in climatic experiment, and more
Today’s physics news: Wednesday, 15 September 2010
£130m hunt for Einstein’s gravitational waves The hunt for one of the most elusive phenomena in the Universe, predicted by Albert Einstein almost a century ago yet never directly detected, is to step up next month when scientists start to upgrade an instrument that should find gravitational waves for the first time. Times Call to [...]
Today’s physics news: Tuesday, 22 September 2009
US student sends balloon into space A student from Massachusetts Institute of Technology has used a second-hand camera, a GPS-enabled phone and a balloon to gain pictures from the edge of space and capture glimpses of the Earth’s curvature. The ease with which the student has obtained the images has led to comparisons with costly [...]
Study of 16 developing countries shows climate change could deepen poverty
A new study supported by the World Bank has for the first time tried to combine, understand and predict the effects of climate change on food prices and wages in developing countries to assess how badly different socio-economic strata in sixteen vulnerable countries will be hit by extreme weather conditions, associated with climate change such [...]
