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Elevated Atmospheric CO2 Interactions with Abiotic Plant Stresses (4 January 2016)
For resourceful plants -- as well as people -- when the going gets tough, the tough get going. And earth's plants get going with a little help from their friends (earth's people), who are continuously fertilizing the air with what is every plant's favorite delicacy: atmospheric CO2...

Acclimation and Adaptation of Marine Fish to Possible Warming (31 December 2015)
An intriguing study finds new evidence for the ability of juvenile anemone fish to successfully deal with potential increases in future ocean temperatures...

Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment Helps Plants Recover from Droughts (30 December 2015)
In addition to slowing the rate of plant water loss during drought conditions, higher concentrations of atmospheric CO2 significantly reduce, or even eliminate, metabolic limitations resulting from drought damages...

Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment on Maize -- Summary (29 December 2015)
Nearly all agricultural species -- including C4 plants -- respond positively to increases in the air's CO2 content by displaying enhanced rates of photosynthesis and biomass production, as well as higher rates of water use efficiency. This summary reviews some of the impacts of these and other related phenomena as they pertain to the C4 crop species of corn (Zea mays L.), or maize as it is often called...

Growth and Yield of Three Maize Genotypes in CO2 Enriched Air (29 December 2015)
In spite of the fact that the three maize genotypes of this study are C4 plants -- which are typically somewhat less responsive to atmospheric CO2 enrichment than C3 plants -- this report of a study conducted in India suggests that such need not always be the case...

Changing Rangeland Conditions on the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau (28 December 2015)
A new study out of China reveals some significant positive consequences of recent changes in temperature and precipitation there, which changes bode well for several "key wild ungulate species" that live on the plateau...

Coral Immune Response to Physical Damage in Warmed Seawater (24 December 2015)
Even the double-whammy of simultaneous heat stress and physical injury may not be as debilitating to earth's corals as one might have thought would be the case...

The MWP in a Multi Proxy Record of Argentinas Laguna Nassau (23 December 2015)
Another temperature reconstruction of the past millennium suggests that the warmest interval of the period occurred at a time when the air's CO2 content was at its very lowest level...

Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment on Tomato -- Summary (22 December 2015)
A brief review of some of the recently published literature suggests that increases in the air's CO2 content will enhance biomass production in tomato, even under the stressful conditions imposed by fungal pathogens and high soil salinity...

An Evaluation of CMIP5 Simulations of Dryland Climate Change (22 December 2015)
As one might have supposed by now, the models investigated in this particular study pretty much have to receive a failing grade in terms of hindcasting global aridity changes over the past six decades or so...

Serious Climate Model Biases in Earth's Eastern Tropical Oceans (21 December 2015)
Until they are corrected, it may not be wise to rush headlong into an international get-together bent on developing an agreement among the nations of the world to limit their fossil fuel utilization based on the likely misguided predictions of current climate models...

Long Term Vegetation Cover Change in Semi arid South Africa (18 December 2015)
In spite of contrary assumptions and predictions, semi-arid regions of South Africa have become significantly "greener" over the past half-century or so...

Massive Natural pH Fluctuations Do Not Inhibit Marine Life in a Coastal Environment (16 December 2015)
Current daily and seasonal pH fluctuations often exceed the projected 0.3 unit decline expected to occur by the end of this century by more than two-fold, yet life is thriving in this "acidified" coastal environment...

Abilities of Tropical Montane Plants to Cope with Global Warming (16 December 2015)
Is the outlook good or bad? ... Or is it a toss-up?...

How Greenhouse Warming May -- Or May Not -- Impact ENSO (15 December 2015)
A careful and thorough study of today's major climate models reveals a number of ways in which their performances appear to deviate from reality...