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Effects of Elevated CO2 and Salinity on Lithifying Microbial Mats (19 August 2016)
Some of the seas' tiniest bottom-dwelling organisms are not harmed by increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Quite to the contrary, in fact, they are actually enriched by it...

Elevated CO2 Increases Soil Phosphorus Availability in a Phosphorus-Limited Australian Woodland (18 August 2016)
A new FACE study reveals another significant benefit of increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations for plants growing in phosphorus-limiting soils...

The Global Effects of Global Warming on Human Mortality (17 August 2016)
Evidence from many locations around the world demonstrates that the type of warming humanity has experienced during the planet's recovery from the cold of the not-so-distant Little Ice Age has helped to significantly lengthen human life span...

Seismic Activity and Global Warming: How Might They be Related? (16 August 2016)
The question posed in this review's title may seem a little strange; but a recent study of the subject suggests that it goes to the very heart of the overriding climatic concern of our day...

Plant Growth Database (15 August 2016)
Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for Quinoa. To access the entire database, click here.

The Growth Response of Aspen Trees to Soil CO2 Enrichment (15 August 2016)
How does the latter phenomenon impact the former? Read on to find out...

How Not to Underestimate Mussel Heart Rate and Thermal Tolerance (10 August 2016)
A recently published study clearly demonstrates that real-world environments often have the capacity and complexity that can enable mussels (and likely many other species) to successfully cope with higher real-world temperatures than those employed in laboratory studies...

Plant Growth Database (9 August 2016)
Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for Rice (Zhu et al., 2015). To access the entire database, click here.

White Spruce Seedling Responses to CO2 Enrichment and Warming (8 August 2016)
It would appear that the more the trees are exposed to greater-than-current atmospheric CO2 concentrations and temperatures, the more they are able to make better use of limited water supplies...

Antarctic Sea Ice Increase A Thorn in the Side of Global Warmers (5 August 2016)
In a world of supposedly dramatic global warming, how is it that Antarctic Sea Ice continues to expand its coverage of the Southern Ocean?...

Six Decades of Temperature and Precipitation in Kentucky (4 August 2016)
How have these two climate variables been impacted by anthropogenic CO2 emissions over this time period? The answer might surprise you...

Plant Growth Database (3 August 2016)
Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for a perennial herb (Li et al., 2015). To access the entire database, click here.

CMIP5 Simulations of 1850-2005 South Asian Summer Monsoons (2 August 2016)
How well have the models done in their "predicting" of the past? One might assume quite well. But in doing so, one would be found to be quite wrong...

CMIP5 Projections of Australian Summer Monsoon Onset and Retreat (2 August 2016)
As is the case with climate models in general, most up-to-date models of earth's monsoons fail to perform properly in a host of different ways...

The Greening of North California's Coastal Santa Cruz Mountains (29 July 2016)
Even in times of drought, the second-growth evergreen forests of the region -- which has a prior history of extensive forest logging -- continue to increase their cover of the land...