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  • Climate change could dramatically affect water supplies It's no simple matter to figure out how regional changes in precipitation, expected to result from global climate change, may affect water supplies. Now, a new analysis led by MIT researchers has found that the changes in groundwater may actually be much greater than the precipitation changes themselves.
    ScienceDaily.com, December 29, 2008

  • Ecosystem changes in temperate lakes linked to climate warming Unparalleled warming over the last few decades has triggered widespread ecosystem changes in many temperate North American and Western European lakes, say researchers at Queen's University and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment.
    ScienceDaily.com, December 27, 2008

  • Wind beats all in renewables study Wind power has been declared the most environmentally friendly source of renewable energy in a US comparison. The study compared nine electric power sources and two liquid fuel sources.
    Carbonpositive, December 22, 2008

  • 2008: 10th warmest year, weather extremes and reduced Arctic ice The year 2008 is likely to rank as the 10th warmest year on record since the beginning of the instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data sources compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
    WMO, December 22, 2008