Nature: Comprehensive survey reveals influence of prevailing winds. The majority of glaciers on the Tibetan plateau and in the surrounding region are retreating rapidly, according to a study based on 30 years of satellite and field measurements. The research by Yao Tandong, a glaciologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Tibetan Research in

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Asia Times: Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Amid recent criticism of Scotland’s Environment Minister Stewart Stevenson’s unfavorable comparison of an independent Scotland to “impoverished” Bhutan, an argument about the unique nature and place of Bhutan in the world gets lost. Bhutan is indeed impoverished

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The Mantle: Recently the headlines read that the CO2 emissions of China may actually be 20% greater than previously thought, essentially equal adding the emissions of #5 emitter Japan to China’s total (see article). The difference lies in how the central and local government authorities measure energy use as a means of calculating greenhouse gas emissions.

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Huffingtonpost: DEAR Barack Obama and Mitt Romney–if I may be so familiar, as you are with me in your fund-raising emails. You are campaigning for our nation’s highest office in a year of record-breaking heat waves, droughts, floods, and monster storms. More than half the contiguous U.S. is under drought conditions. In June wildfires destroyed

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Times of India: Severe droughts, floods and heat waves rocked the world last year as greenhouse gas levels climbed, boosting the odds of some extreme weather events, international scientists said. The details are contained in the annual State of the Climate report, compiled by nearly 400 scientists from 48 countries and published in the peer-reviewed

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Science20.com: Global climate change has stimulated efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Photosynthetic organisms use solar energy to generate reducing equivalents and incorporate atmospheric CO2 into organic molecules. Cellular phenotype is a manifestation of gene expression levels, metabolic demand, resource availability, and cellular stresses. The variation in raw material for production of biofuels ranges from hydrocarbon

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