climate

Big wind, solar farms could boost rain in Sahara: study

by Kerry Sheridan Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) -- Installing massive wind and solar farms in the Saharan…

Global warming will make insects hungrier, eating up key crops: study

by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France-Presse TAMPA, United States (APF) - Researchers have found a new way that global warming is…

Brace for extra-warm weather through 2022: study

by Marlowe Hood  Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) - Manmade global warming and a natural surge in Earth's surface temperature…

Ten ways the planet could tip into ‘Hothouse Earth’

  by Marlowe Hood Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- Even if humanity slashes greenhouse gas emissions in line…

World’s biggest king penguin colony shrinks 90 percent

by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- The planet's largest colony of king penguins has declined by…

Heatwaves from the Arctic to Japan: a sign of things to come?

  by Amélie Bottolier-Depois Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- Intense heatwaves like the one which fuelled Greece's deadly…

Climate change sinking Arctic archeological treasures

by Michel Comte Agence France Presse A mad rush is needed to preserve or catalogue thousands of Arctic archeological sites…

Earth’s intact forests vanishing at accelerating pace: scientists

  by Marlowe Hood  Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- Earth's intact forests shrank by an area larger than Austria…

Global warming will make veggies harder to find: study

TAMPA, United States (AFP)---Global warming is expected to make vegetables significantly scarcer around the world, unless new growing practices and…

US property crisis looms as sea level rises, experts warn

  by Kerry Sheridan © Agence France-Presse SARASOTA, United States (AFP) -- Along sun-splashed shorelines in the US state of Florida,…

‘Shocking’ die-off of Africa’s oldest baobabs: study

by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- Some of Africa's oldest and biggest baobab trees -- a…

UK, US launch biggest-ever study of Antarctic glacier

  LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- Britain and the United States on Monday launched a research program billed "the most…

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