Yale360: U.S. scientists this week unveiled a new online resource that maps the distribution of species worldwide and will ultimately…
(IPS) – Without major reductions in the use of fossil fuels, sunlight is to kill an unknown number of ocean…
(Reuters) – Saving biodiversity — the vast and essential variety of the natural world — will be expensive, at an…
NASA: Coral reefs are spectacular underwater ecosystems. However, they are deteriorating at an alarming rate, due mainly to human activity…
Agricultural expansion and climate variability have become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon basin
The Amazon basin in transition
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NASA: By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth’s land surface and will drive…
(PhysOrg.com) — A major new scientific review, involving more than 30 scientists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands…
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Yale 360: The acidification of the world’s oceans from an excess of CO2 emissions has already begun, as…
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Our planet’s nearing a milestone: By the end of October, there will be a staggering 7 billion…
Knowing the number of species on Earth is one of the most basic yet elusive questions in science. Unfortunately,…
A meta-study published in Science today provides the first evidence that global movement of plants and animals to higher latitudes and…
PlosONE: This paper provides scientific expert judgement and a semi-quantitative analysis of past, present and future impacts of human-related activities…
Jul 29, 2011 (IPS) – Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life…
One in 10 species could face extinction by the year 2100 if current climate change impacts continue. This is the…
Starting Earth Day 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners are sharing stories about how accelerating climate…
For eons, the polar marine food chain has been closely linked to the seasonal formation and retreat of sea ice.…
A high-level international workshop convened by IPSO met at the University of Oxford earlier this year. It was the first…
The extent of projected changes in winter chill in many major growing regions of fruits and nuts indicates that growers…
The acidification of the world’s oceans could have major consequences for the marine environment. New research shows that coccoliths, which…
A report released today identifies 13 of the richest and most vulnerable places in the Arctic Ocean that should be…
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Soon observations from NASA’s Earth-observing satellites of our planet’s climate will be brought to bear on understanding how…
A new NASA-funded study has revealed widespread reductions in the greenness of the forests in the vast Amazon basin in…
Australian scientists have reported the first known detrimental impact of southern hemisphere ocean warming on a fish species.
The findings of…
The coastline in Arctic regions reacts to climate change with increased erosion…
There is increasing concern among scientists that ocean acidification, the so-called “evil twin” of climate change, could affect the functioning…
Declines in managed bee colonies date back to the mid 1960s in Europe but have accelerated since 1998, especially in…
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1. Since the 1950s, spring has been starting earlier in the western U.S.. The onset of spring now starts,…
(Reuters) – Two of the most well-known penguin species in Antarctica — chinstraps and Adelies — are under pressure because…
The average ocean temperature has increased about 1 degree Fahrenheit in recent decades, said Sven Thatje, an evolutionary biologist at…
With the steep decline in populations of many animal species, scientists have warned that Earth is on the brink of…
Warming temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic may be behind a progressively earlier bloom of a crucial annual marine…
During the past few years a number of disturbing reports from the Arctic have…
A new comprehensive analysis finds that 75 percent of the world’s coral reefs are currently threatened by local and global…
Large amounts of phosphorus, a crucial fertilizer, are discharged into oceans as result of inefficiencies in farming and a failure…
Grizzly bears mating with polar bears. Red foxes out-competing Arctic foxes. Exotic diseases making their way into once-isolated polar realms.…
Ice is melting at accelerating rates in the Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland, and glaciers all over the world. Arctic summer sea…
Rapporten viser at den biologiske mangfoldighed fortsat går tilbage i samtlige økosystemer. Af de 139 vurderede elementer er 47…
Vi mister fortsat dyr og planter i den danske natur, selvom Danmark havde lovet, at det stoppede i 2010. Det…
Record warm ocean temperatures across much of Earth’s tropical oceans during the summer of 2010 created the second worst year…
The abundance of four common species of bumblebee in the US has dropped by 96% in just the past few…
Hvis vi skal redde klimaet, må vi stoppe rydningen verdens skove.
Sådan lød budskabet på FN’s Klimakonference COP16 i Mexico og…
The Vital Graphics series provides a clear, direct, visual presentation of issues relevant to the global environment, based on a…
ScienceDaily (Dec. 6, 2010) — Climate change is causing wildfires to burn more fiercely, pumping more greenhouse gases into the…
It is a difficult idea to fathom. But the science is clear: Unless we change the way we live, the…
Cancún, 03.12.10: With the today published Climate Risk Index 2011 in Cancun, Germanwatch has, for the sixth time, examined which…
A new United Nations-backed report warns that unless governments cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, ocean acidification will continue and have…
The Amazon region is experiencing the third extreme drought in a dozen years — and it may turn out to…
In the first comprehensive global survey of temperature trends in major lakes, NASA researchers determined Earth’s largest lakes have warmed…
International marine scientists say that a huge coral death which has struck Southeast Asian and Indian Ocean reefs over recent…
