WWF: An ever-growing demand for resources by a growing population is putting tremendous pressures on our planet’s biodiversity and is…
The Land Matrix is an online public database of large-scale land deals. It provides a visualisation of records documenting land deals…
NAS: National science academies from 15 countries issued joint statements today calling on world leaders who are about to meet…
The Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 2012
UNDP: The Asia-Pacific region must continue to grow economically to lift millions out of poverty,…
Maplecroft: The viability of water supplies throughout key regions of China, India, Pakistan, South Africa and the US are under…
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…
ThinktoSustain.com: The geographical location and diversity make India highly susceptible to climate change impacts. With over sixty percent of the…
EEA: Records show temperatures have increased in Europe – but what changes can we expect to see in the future?…
H. D. Pritchard, S. R. M. Ligtenberg, H. A. Fricker, D. G. Vaughan, M. R. van den Broeke & L.…
ClimateCentral: Climate scientists have been saying for years that one of the many downsides of a warming planet is that…
IEA: The report, Tracking Clean Energy Progress, highlighted the rapid progress made in some renewable technologies, notably the solar panels easily…
Royal Society: Rapid and widespread changes in the world’s human population, coupled with unprecedented levels of consumption present profound challenges…
ESA: After nearly a year and a half of operations, CryoSat has yielded its first seasonal variation map of Arctic…
RTT: The journal Nature Climate Change contends that factors such as market policies or oil prices have comparatively little effect…
The global wind industry will install more than 46 GW of new wind energy capacity in 2012, according to a…
BGS: Robust quantitative groundwater maps for Africa were developed to highlight areas more likely to be resilient to climate change…
In celebration of Earth Day this year, NASA’s Webby Award-winning Global Climate Change website has unveiled a new version of its…
Giant data centres which store and send the terabytes of pictures, emails, songs and streaming videos we enjoy every day…
A 50 percent reduction in meat consumption and emissions is needed
Woods Hole Research Center: Meat consumption in the developed world…
AlertNet: Water is increasingly becoming a scarce resource and shortages could drive conflict, hit food and energy production and threaten…
EPA: The Inventory of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and sinks tracks the national trend in greenhouse gas emissions and removals…
This 30 second data visualization uses the measurements collected by the GRACE satellites over a period of 10 years to show seasonal and…
PEW: Global clean energy finance and investment grew to $263 billion in 2011, a 6.5 percent increase over…
The Arctic region is undergoing rapid change, both in terms of climate and economic development. According to Lloyd’s latest Risk Insight…
Guardian: The volcanoes of Iceland could soon be pumping low-carbon electricity into the UK under government-backed plans for thousands of…
Country sizes show the carbon footprint of all goods and services consumed in a nation, including imports and excluding exports.…
Guardian: lloyds of London, the world’s biggest insurance market, has become the first major business organisation to raise its voice…
NRDC: Across the U.S., the impacts of climate change on water resources are already being seen. Warmer temperatures, changes in…
At the request of Congress, EPA has conducted an intensive effort to summarize available scientific information on the climate and health impacts…
ESA: As ESA’s Envisat satellite marks ten years in orbit, it continues to observe the rapid retreat of one of…
U.S. National Research Council released a synthesis of reports from thousands of scientists in 60 countries who took part in the…
(Reuters) – About 4 million hectares of crops are suffering from a severe drought in China that has hit 13…
InsideClimate News:The French energy company Total estimates that its North Sea Elgin field gas well is leaking about 200,000 cubic…
Guardian: Study suggests rising CO2 in the past caused global warming
A scientific conundrum that has puzzled climate experts for years…
(IRIN) – A Nobel laureate, a Swedish environmentalist’s idea, the “doughnut” concept, Scandinavia’s sense of social capital, measuring the quality…
(Reuters) – This year’s frenzy of oil and gas exploration in newly accessible Arctic waters could be the harbinger of…
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Edward Davey today launched a new competition for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), a key technology…
Anthropocene.info is a beta version. Phase two and phase three of the site development will be complete by the end of…
Guardian: Developing countries in Africa received less in overseas aid last year than they paid for oil imports, new figures…
Planet Under Pressure: Scientists issue first “State of the Planet” declaration at the world’s largest gathering of experts on global…
IPCC: In recent years, extreme weather and climate events have taken many lives and caused billions of dollars in economic…
ESA: Satellite are seeing changes in land surfaces in high detail at northern latitudes, indicating thawing permafrost. This releases greenhouse…
(Reuters) – Extreme weather events over the past decade have increased and were “very likely” caused by manmade global warming,…
PIK: The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be more vulnerable to global warming than previously thought. The temperature threshold…
The European Climate Adaptation Platform (CLIMATE-ADAPT) aims to support Europe in adapting to climate change. It is an initiative of…
WMO : Climate change accelerated in 2001-2010, according to preliminary assessment
The World Meteorological Organization’s Annual Statement on the Status of the…
ODNI: Global Water Security
The Bottom Line: During the next 10 years, many regions will experience water challenges – shortages, poor…
