Author: Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent, Reuters, WASHINGTON

  • 2010 Russia heat wave due to natural variability

    The 2010 Russian heat wave that killed thousands and cut into that country’s grain harvest was primarily due to natural variability, not human-spurred climate change, U.S. scientists said on Wednesday. There was plenty of circumstantial evidence pointing to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but close investigation…