A climate warning from the deep | Environment | The Observer

Bryozoans found in the Ross and Weddell seas should have been fairly different in structure if the sheet had been stable and ancient. The two populations would have slowly evolved in different manners, if the sheet was millions of years old.

But Dr David Barnes and his team discovered that the two populations were almost identical, indicating the two seas must have been connected by a major sea passage in the recent past, around 125,000 years ago.

Low-carbon market to treble by 2020 - HSBC | Reuters

(Reuters) - The world's low-carbon energy market is likely to treble by 2020, HSBC analysts forecast on Monday, saying that rising concerns about resource scarcity would support broad consensus on the threat of climate change.

The electric vehicle market would benefit most, growing more than 20 times by 2020 to reach $473 billion (307 billion pounds), said HSBC's "Sizing the climate economy" report.