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El Nino found to be 124,000 years old

Records preserved in corals from Indonesia reveal that El Niño was causing severe weather even before the last ice age began, when the climate apparently was like it was for most of the 20th century....

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Ana Barros chases the monsoon

“The Himalayas are the largest mountain barrier on Earth, and probably one of the least understood,” says Ana Barros, a Harvard associate professor of environmental engineering in the Division of...

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Atmospheric chemists fly high and low for novel carbon dioxide measurements

Political leaders throughout the world have taken notice of the increasing levels of carbon in the atmosphere and have begun negotiations on how to mitigate “greenhouse” gases through accords such as...

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Scientists predict calmer weather ahead

When the Sun is more active, it has bad effects on our planet. For instance, energy from solar eruptions changes the orbits of satellites, causing them to spiral back to the Earth. Solar eruptions...

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New earthquake mapping system could save lives

“The earthquake-hazard maps currently in use are based on the premise that the closer a building is to a large fault, the better designed it should be,” says Harvard earthquake expert John Shaw. “But...

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Weather watchers forecast better forecasts

Brian Farrell, the Robert P. Burden Professor of Meteorology, is spearheading a project that is part of a five-year initiative funded by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research...

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Global warming is not so hot

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics took a look at how weather has changed in the past 1,000 years. They looked at studies of changes in glaciers, corals, stalagmites, and...

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Climate, asthma connected, according to research

Christine Rogers, a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health, measures particulates – pollen grains and fungal spores – in outdoor air and correlates levels with asthma events. She...

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Warming called a global ‘experiment’

Climate scientist Daniel Schrag says that human-caused climate change is inevitable, though scientists don’t know exactly how severe or even exactly what its effects will be. Schrag said the public...

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Climate solutions through forests

Using the environment to help address the nation’s pollution problems. That’s the focus of a new report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and researchers at the Kennedy School of Government...

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Climate choices: Grim and grimmer

Climate change from burning fossil fuels is probably already unavoidable, but it is still up to humans to decide just how bad it will be, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Daniel Schrag said...

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Global warming yields ‘glacial earthquakes’ in polar areas

Seismologists at Harvard University and Columbia University have found an unexpected offshoot of global warming: “glacial earthquakes” in which Manhattan-sized glaciers lurch unexpectedly, yielding...

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Tilting at ice ages

Here’s a story to cool you off on a hot summer day. One of the major mysteries of ice ages may have been solved by a Harvard climatologist. Most scholars believe that much of North America, Europe and...

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Engineered weathering process might mitigate climate change

Researchers at Harvard University and Penn State University have invented a technology, inspired by nature, to reduce the accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by human emissions. By...

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Policy can empower technological climate change solution

The chair of the U.S. House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming struck an optimistic tone about the planet’s climate crisis last night, saying that an energy revolution is in the...

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Hotter seasons coming earlier, research finds

An analysis of global temperatures between 1850 and 2007 has illuminated some climate change details, showing that winter temperatures have risen more rapidly than summer temperatures and that the...

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Higher temperatures lead to more severe headaches

Although large numbers of headache sufferers, particularly individuals who struggle with migraines, attribute their pain to the weather, there has been little scientific evidence to back up their...

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Microbes thrive in harsh, isolated water under Antarctic glacier

A reservoir of briny liquid buried deep beneath an Antarctic glacier supports hardy microbes that have lived in isolation for millions of years, researchers report this week in the journal Science. The...

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Chu urges U.S. to anticipate its energy future

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu described the U.S. failure to anticipate changes in the global energy supply during a talk at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Aug. 6. Chu cited the discovery...

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Study: Polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming

A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth’s sea level, carried out by scientists at Harvard and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, employs a...

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