Topic: Climatology
New climate service aims to help business adapt
Reuters Environmental Online Report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A proposed new U.S. NOAA Climate Service is meant to help businesses adapt to the impact of climate change, and to spur development of new technologies to cope with it, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Monday. "Even with our best efforts, we know that some ...
New federal climate change agency forming
AP News
Obama administration to set up new agency to study, monitor climate changeThe Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to ...
Water at core of climate change impacts: experts
Reuters Environmental Online Report
OSLO (Reuters) - The main impact of climate change will be on water supplies and the world needs to learn from past cooperation such as over the Indus or Mekong Rivers to help avert future conflicts, experts said on Sunday. Desertification, flash floods, melting glaciers, heatwaves, cyclones or water-borne diseases such ...
Arctic melt to cost up to $24 trillion by 2050: report
Reuters Environmental Online Report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arctic ice melting could cost global agriculture, real estate and insurance anywhere from $2.4 trillion to $24 trillion by 2050 in damage from rising sea levels, floods and heat waves, according to a report released on Friday. "Everybody around the world is going to bear these costs ...
Related Videos by 5min
on OneRiot
Related Photos by Flickr
From Our Network
- Switzerland World Economic Forum m.jobclimate.com
- Suppliers that don't manage CO2 could lose clients galeforcewindinformation.com
- Obama seeks to boost nuclear power in new budget iphone.jobclimate.com
- World may not do climate deal this year wap.jobclimate.com
- Gov't told to cut own greenhouse gases 28 percent climatologyinformation.com
