The Guardian

Emissions from China’s export industry are everyone’s responsibility – future trade and climate policy must be linked, says Glen Peters. Glen Peters is a senior research fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo, Norway.

Planet Ark

Australia will set up a A$100 million (US$80 mln) carbon capture research institute aimed at fighting climate shift and with ambitions of becoming the world hub for the technology, the government said on Friday.

Climate Ark

Recent research suggests that global warming will also exacerbate respiratory allergies, as higher CO2 concentrations lead to vast increases in ragweed pollen production.

AFP

Spain, among the nations in Europe most affected by desertification, will set up a climate change research institute in the northeastern city of Zaragoza, Environment Minister Elena Espinosa said Friday.

“Its main goal will be to promote the analysis and research of climate change in Spain,” she told a news conference, adding the institute would also recommend measures which Spain could adopt to fight the phenomena.

Climate Ark

The latest research by scientists at the Pune’s Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology is suggesting a greater effect on India due to climate change than first forecast. Projections show a 3 to 4 degree temperature rise after 2050 with heavier and less regular rainfall.

MIT news

In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn’t shine.

Dr. Dave Worsley from Swansea University’s School of Engineering is researching ways to create solar cells by painting on “flexible steel surfaces commonly used for cladding buildings.”

The Guardian

Scientist Anne Hershey paddled a small inflatable raft across an arctic lake, pausing in her stroke to consider how the melting permafrost caused a landslide of mud and sediment spilling down the bank into the water.

Since the bank collapsed two years ago, the water has grown cloudy with sediment, providing scientists a natural laboratory for studying how warmer temperatures may play out in ecosystems far and near.

The Globe and Mail

Researchers at the University of Texas say global warming will trigger a dramatic rise in kidney stones in the United States.

According to their study, warming temperatures over the next 42 years will cause a 30-per-cent jump in cases of nephrolithiasis, or kidney stone disease, in some regions of the country.

Scientific findings are showing soot, produced by burning coal, diesel, wood and dung, to have a significant impact on human health and the environment. Soot causes approximately 400,000 deaths a year and contributes up to 60% of the current warming effect of carbon dioxide.