Adaptation
Nigeria on alert for climatic disasters.
The Federal Government will take anticipatory measures towards averting climatic disasters that have recently ravaged other lands, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe has said.
Apapa Vanguard.
16 May 2008
Bird migration at mercy of weather patterns.
Severe weather conditions as a result of climate change could make it impossible for migratory birds to complete their long-distance flights.
New Scientist.
15 May 2008
Northward bound.
New research challenges the assumption that an increase in ocean temperatures associated with climate change will promote future jellyfish outbreaks.
Nature.
15 May 2008
Great tits shift mating schedules due to warming.
Birds called great tits are adapting to global warming by altering their behavior in England, a decades-long study has found.
National Geographic News.
15 May 2008
Global warming seen as an opportunity.
While global warming will produce losses to both people and the environment from droughts, floods and rising sea levels, it will also create opportunities, according to the director of climate-change science for The Nature Conservancy.
Charleston Gazette-Mail.
15 May 2008
Firms seek patents on 'climate ready' altered crops.
Agricultural biotechnology companies are seeking hundreds of patents on gene-altered crops as part of a race for dominance in the potentially lucrative market for crops that can handle global warming.
Washington Post.
13 May 2008
Watermelons, conflict and climate change in Sudan.
Several hundred kilometres from Darfur, pastoralists and farmers in the village of Gereigikh have learnt to cool the tension with watermelons.
UN IRIN.
13 May 2008
Sea changes could warn of Day After Tomorrow scenario.
In the movie, the world froze quickly when a major ocean current - the "ocean conveyor belt" - turned off. That was fiction, but slowdowns of the conveyor are possible; now researchers suspect they can give us few years' warning.
New Scientist.
13 May 2008
Alaska puts erosion on priority list.
State officials say they are ready to take a leadership role in protecting coastal villages threatened by the sea, committing millions of dollars in the state budget to a new list of priority erosion-control projects.
Anchorage Daily News.
12 May 2008
Wine makers take heat out of global warming.
Global warming may be the latest threat to the wine industry, but a clutch of producers in one of Spain's hardest-hit regions say they have found a way to survive and even profit from it.
Edinburgh Scotsman.
11 May 2008
British birds adapt to global warming.
Great tits adjust their breeding season so that chicks hatch when winter moth caterpillars -- their main food source -- are most plentiful, long-term research shows.
Los Angeles Times.
10 May 2008
Great tits cope well with warming.
At least one of Britain's birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food.
BBC.
09 May 2008
Great tit loves global warming.
Britain's great tits are making the most of the warming climate and defying gloomy predictions about extinctions, according to a study conducted over half a century.
London Daily Telegraph.
09 May 2008
Great tits enjoying the warmer weather – so far.
As climate change forces animals to shift their breeding schedules, one group of British birds has been able to quickly adapt to the warmer weather without having to rely on slower evolution.
New Scientist.
09 May 2008
Brittlestars can survive acid oceans.
As carbon dioxide levels rise, increasingly acidic oceans compromise the calcification processes of ocean organisms. New results show that one species bumps up shell production - but at a steep cost.
Nature.
08 May 2008
Climate change in Nova Scotia to bring agricultural challenges.
There are many challenges, and perhaps opportunities, for agrarians to consider as people in Nova Scotia experience climate change over the next century.
Hants Journal.
08 May 2008
Echinoderms wasted by acid.
Brittlestars pay a high price to keep from being dissolved by rising ocean acidity.
Science.
08 May 2008
How climate change is impacting on real estate.
While debate still rages as to what degree human behaviour affects climate change, there is little doubt that the reverse holds true. Global warming awareness is impacting on human behaviour.
Black Press.
08 May 2008
New York bicycle commuters face an uphill climb.
With rising gas prices and concern over auto emissions, more workers are taking to two wheels. But they must navigate an obstacle course of anarchic traffic conditions.
Los Angeles Times.
07 May 2008
Beavers offer solution to climate change.
In the Southwest U.S., biologists are talking about returning beavers to rivers they once inhabited in order to fight droughts — which are expected to get worse as the globe warms. Beaver dams create great sponges that store lots of water.
All Things Considered.
04 May 2008
