A Met Office review of the latest climate research confirms our planet is changing rapidly and man-made greenhouse gas emissions…
PORT OF SPAIN, Mar 4, 2010 (Tierramérica) – Caribbean countries are considering options like desalination plants and cloud seeding to…
Peter Sinclair, from Greenman Studio LLC, has generated a video about the body of scientific evidence on climate change. It…
In an effort to ensure that diverse groups of actors whose decisions impact our planet’s water resources can make better…
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Africa’s most spectacular water system comes brilliantly to life in a new book, Okavango Delta: Floods of Life, which…
Compared with other mountainous regions worldwide, Himalayan glaciers are losing mass faster than European glaciers but slower than those in…
Australian agriculture needs to adapt now to climate change according to a CSIRO book launched today entitled: Adapting Agriculture to…
Ocean acidification is a new field of research in which most studies have been published in the past 10 years.…
UNEP and Government of Indonesia Emphasize Role of Blue Carbon in Combating Climate Change
Indonesia’s Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries…
Scientists have discovered an area of the North Atlantic Ocean where plastic debris accumulates.
The region is said to compare with…
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is showing an extraordinary range of benefits from the network of protected marine reserves introduced…
The challenge of saving the orangutan – man’s closest relative – from extinction is trickling down to the weekly shop.
Many…
On 22 February 2010, more than one hundred forty governments will meet in Bali to strengthen ties between the Basel,…
The household goods giant Unilever has distanced itself from a major palm-oil producer after a BBC documentary filmed its staff…
Gebisa Ejeta:
Africa missed out on the scientific breakthroughs that revolutionized agriculture in Asia. However, with locally developed and locally relevant…
Scientists discover clues into human diseases by studying dolphins in a changing ocean
A panel of governmental, academic and non-profit scientists…
Petroleum companies have leased 41 percent of the Peruvian Amazon for oil and gas drilling and could soon hold drilling…
In December 2008, EU leaders reached agreement on a new Renewable Energy Directive, which requires each member state to satisfy…
EU renewable energy legislation states that 10% of all road transport fuel in the EU will need to be “renewable”…
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You are an integral part of nature; your fate is tightly linked with biodiversity, the huge…
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Mankind’s closest living relatives – the world’s apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates – are…
Overexploit, cheat, deplete. The cycle of greed behind the global whaling industry drove one whale population after another toward oblivion.
It…
The development of alternative fuel will greatly benefit the U.S., say scientists in an Energy Foundation-funded report published February 16…
The Forest Footprint Disclosure Project (FFD Project) is a new UK government-supported initiative, created to help investors identify how an…
Watch the official International Year of Biodiversity video and learn more about the value of biodiversity and why it is…
Kigali (Rwanda)/Nairobi (Kenya), 17 February 2010 – Rwanda, the East African country that is embracing a transition to a Green…
Population growth, arable land and fresh water limits, and climate change have profound implications for the ability of agriculture to…
Waters from warmer latitudes — or subtropical waters — are reaching Greenland’s glaciers, driving melting and likely triggering an acceleration…
A new study says the seas are acidifying ten times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass…
Not since the dinosaurs died out has Earth suffered such a rapid loss of plants, animals, and ecosystems. Our destruction…
Andy Ridgwell & Daniela N. Schmidt
Increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in sea water are driving a progressive acidification of the…
Researchers have measured the degradation of the planet’s soil using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a scientific methodology that analyses…
The Northern Australia Land and Water Science Review 2009 examines a range of options for use of land and water…
5 February 2010, Trondheim (Norway). Twelve messages are the final outcome of the conference “Getting the biodiversity targets right –…
Speed is not a word typically associated with trees; they can take centuries to grow. However, a new study to…
A team of scientists working in a threatened rainforest in Ecuador have discovered a species of snail sucking snake, 30…
Washington, D.C.-Without an intentional cultural shift that values sustainability over consumerism, no government pledges or technological advances will be enough…
The United States may be experiencing one of the coldest winters in decades, but things continue to heat up in…
Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii (USA) Atmospheric CO2 was 387.27 parts per million (ppm) in the last month of 2009, according…
A study by the University of Exeter provides the first evidence that coral reefs can recover from the devastating effects…
The variety of life underpins our social and economic wellbeing and will be increasingly an indispensible resource in the battle…
A long-term study showing the changes in habitat associations of polar bears in response to sea ice conditions in the…
Six crewmembers Rescued by the Sea Shepherd Ship Bob Barker
Six crew crewmembers, four from New Zealand, one from Australia, and…
IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature
With the loss of plant and animal diversity, we’re losing the chance…
You are an integral part of nature; your fate is tightly linked with biodiversity, the huge variety of other animals…
In a bid to curb the unprecedented loss of the world’s species due to human activity – at a rate…
Copenhagen, 14 December 2009 – The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity released today a major study, Scientific Synthesis…
Case Studies on Moving Towards a Low Carbon Economy United Nations Environment Programme
Supporting countries in meeting the climate change challenge
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