Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science…
Ændrede temperaturmønstre på grund af den globale opvarmning, får fiskestimerne til at vandre. Temperaturen i de europæiske farvande er steget,…
What is Earth Overshoot Day?
Earth Overshoot Day — a concept devised by U.K.-based new economics foundation — marks an unfortunate…
The two main objectives of the research were to examine global trends in phytoplankton over time and to determine what…
* The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for June 2010 was the warmest on record at…
A new interactive Google Earth map showing the impacts of a 4 °C warmer world was launched today by the…
The Chinese government has just lodged the first application to mine for minerals under the seabed in international waters, in…
History was made today in the South Korean port city of Busan, when governments gave the green light to an…
Walter W. Immerzeel, Ludovicus P. H. van Beek, Marc F. P. Bierkens
More than 1.4 billion people depend on water from…
Det sårbare dyreliv og havmiljø i Arktis trues af den øgede aktivitet og skibstrafik som er fulgt i hælene på…
Following the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) calls…
The IPY Oslo Science Conference is to demonstrate, strengthen, and extend IPY’s remarkable accomplishments in science and outreach.
Conference Website: http://ipy-osc.no/
The…
A containment cap on a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is now funnelling off 10,000 barrels of oil…
May 25, 2010
Fishery Closure Boundary as of May 28, 2010. Closure area may be updated daily as necessary.
NOAA has extended…
A new report synthesizing scientific findings on the status and trends for selected biodiversity in the Arctic indicates that unique…
As part of its most comprehensive study of climate change to date, the National Research Council issued three reports emphasizing…
Mere end hver tredje kommune bidrager nu med naturprojekter til den interaktive biodiversitetshjemmeside Det Grønne Danmarkskort. Formålet med hjemmesiden er,…
Most of global warming goes into the ocean. Consequently, the amount of heat accumulating in the world’s oceans is a…
Toronto/Montreal, Canada – 05/18/2010 – Today 20 member companies of the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and nine leading…
Credit: The end of the Line
New York, 17 May 2010-Investing around US$8 billion a year in rebuilding and greening the…
The End of the Line, the first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans, had…
Nature Geoscience
Published online: 16 May 2010 | doi:10.1038/ngeo866
Consistent geographical patterns of changes in high-impact European heatwaves
E. M. Fischer1,2 & C.…
Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500
Nature Geoscience, Published online: 16 May 2010 | doi:10.1038/ngeo865
Instrumental observations suggest that…
Nature is delighted to present this biodiversity supplement for 2010, International Year of Biodiversity. As nations come together to reduce…
Massive withdrawals for irrigation, rapid population growth, and a paralyzing regional conflict have drained nearly all the water from this…
Emissions from land use change, mainly tropical forest loss, contribute an estimated 17.4% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC…
One–fifth of lizard species globally will become extinct by 2080 due to global warming, according to a study using data…
Øglerne kan ikke nå at tilpasse sig fremtidens varme klima, og inden 2080 kan store dele af bestanden være forsvundet.…
Today marks the launch of the third edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-3). This much anticipated flagship publication of…
A new direction for climate policy
Rapid advance in addressing climate change is now possible for the first time in 15…
A new biodiversity report released today by two United Nations environmental bodies concluded that unless radical and creative action is…
In 2002, the world’s governments agreed to significantly slow the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. Time is almost up,…
In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated,…
British fish stocks have dropped by 94 percent in the past 118 years and commercial fishing has profoundly changed seabed…
World leaders have failed to deliver commitments made in 2002 to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss, and have instead…
The Arctic is locked into a destructive cycle that could see its icy cover rapidly disappear, scientists have confirmed. A…
The 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 163 countries on 25 performance indicators tracked across ten policy categories covering both…
The oil slick that is expanding from the site of an oil rig collapse last week has been spotted from…
This report describes the outcomes from a CSIRO global foresight project. It presents five megatrends and eight megashocks (global risks)…
This WWF post gives an excellent overview on current knowledge on Ocean Acidification.
http://www.wwfblogs.org/climate/content/nrc-acidification-study-22apr2010
The post was issued to day – Earth…
WASHINGTON — The changing chemistry of the world’s oceans is a growing global problem, says the summary of a congressionally…
Tiny but Mighty Microbes, Plankton, Larvae, Burrowers — Keys to Earth’s Food and Respiratory Systems.
Ocean explorers are puzzling out Nature’s…
Global Highlights
* The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for March 2010 was the warmest on record at…
All the data you need to show that the world is warming
April 14, 2010: Posted by: Scott A. Mandia, Professor…
Once, on both sides of the Atlantic, fish such as salmon, eels, and, shad were abundant and played an important…
This satellite image shows the ever-moving sandbanks in the shallow Wadden Sea in the north of the Netherlands. Declared a…
I dag offentliggør Danmarks Miljøundersøgelser (DMU) ved Aarhus Universitet rødlistestatus for i alt 2.702 arter af danske insekter, fisk, pattedyr,…
