TGS has entered into new data release agreements with the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change DECC and the British Geological Survey BGS. These agreements permit TGS to release new and hist

Climate change projections indicate a steady increase in temperature progressing through the 21 st century, generally resulting in snowpack reductions, changes to the timing of snowmelt, altered streamflows, and reductions in soil moisture, all of which could affect water management, agriculture, recreation, hazard mitigation, and ecosystems across the nation. Despite some widespread similarities in climate change trends, climate change will affect specific water basins in the U.S. differently, based on the particular hydrologic and geologic conditions in that area. New USGS modeling studies project changes in water availability due to climate change at the local level. So far, the USGS has applied these models to fourteen basins, including: Sprague River Basin, Oregon Sagehen Creek Basin, California Feather River Basin, California Naches River Basin, Washington Yampa River Basin, Colorado East River Basin, Colorado Black Earth Creek Basin, Wisconsin Flint River Basin, Georgia Pomperaug River Watershed,...

Citing worries over climate change, two environmental groups announced Thursday that they hope to derail government plans to sell leases on 2 billion tons of coal near a pair of major Wyoming mines.

The Fukushima crisis is eroding years of Japanese efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, as power plants running on oil and natural gas fill the electricity gap le

The Fukushima crisis is eroding years of Japanese efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, as power plants running on oil and natural gas fill the electricity gap left by now-shuttered nuclear reactors.

Mitt Romney teamed up with controversial coal magnate Bob Murray for a fundraiser Thursday in the same Wheeling, WVa., hotel where Murray last fall hosted a similar event for Texas Gov. Rick Perry's failed presidential bid. Murray, CEO of Murray Energy... Mitt Romney stops in Wheeling WTOV Steubenville Romney Pays A Private Visit Wheeling Intelligencer all 4 news articles

RESTON, Va. - Thanks to citizen-scientists around the country, the USA National Phenology Network hit a major milestone this week by reaching its one millionth nature observation. The millionth observation was done by Lucille Tower, a citizen-scientist in Portland, Ore., who entered a record about seeing maple vines flowering. Her data, like all of the entries, came in through USA-NPN's online observation program, Nature's Notebook, which engages more than 4,000 volunteers across the country to observe and record phenology - the timing of the recurring life events of plants and animals such as when cherry trees or lilacs blossom, when robins build their nests, when salmon swim upstream to spawn or when leaves turn colors in the fall. Each record not only represents a single data point - the status of a specific life stage of an individual plant or animal on one day - but also benefits both science and society by helping researchers understand how plants and animals are responding to climate change and, in...

A question that seems to garner a lot of debate whenever the topics of climate change and peak oil are raised is what our future sources of energy might look like. This is a common feature of groups involved in the Transition movement, since the vast majority of us in the north depend so much on finite sources of fossil fuels to power our modern, civilised lifestyles. Ever since the advances of the industrial revolution allowed us to harness the power of coal and oil, we have built our society around the potential of fossil fuels to provide us with the concentrated energy necessary for the processes involved in heavy industry. These days, access to affordable, reliable electricity is seen by many as a basic human need. read more

A study linking Texas wind farms to higher surface temperatures has raised questions about wind energy causing climate change. Is that true?