(Reuters) – Global warming threatens China’s march to prosperity by cutting crops, shrinking rivers and unleashing more droughts and floods,…
AlertNet: The water level at the original Nansio pier has gradually been dropping since seasonal rainfalls began to lessen in…
(IPS) Bangladesh: With floods, droughts and other calamities battering deltaic Bangladesh regularly, farmers need little prompting in switching to climate-resistant…
Barents Observer: Norwegian gas from the Snøhvit gas field outside Hammerfest can for the first time be shipped through the…
(Reuters) – The U.S. government forecaster warned on Thursday that La Nina, the weather phenomenon blamed for searing drought in the…
Munich Re: A sequence of devastating earthquakes and a large number of weather-related catastrophes made 2011 the costliest year ever…
University of Washington : A hemispherewide phenomenon – and not just regional forces – has caused record-breaking amounts of freshwater to…
Alaska Dispatch: The permafrost has sunk so much in one Northwest Alaska village that bridges are shifting, outdoor stairways hang…
Skeptical Science : Dramatic events grab headlines, and in the 2011 weather & climate sections of newspapers we’ve seen walls of…
Aon Benfield: Published by Impact Forecasting, the firm’s catastrophe model development center of excellence, the report reveals that the worst…
Millions of people in South Asia are vulnerable to climate change because of depleting glaciers, increasing coastal erosion, frequent floods…
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(IRIN) – Rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion in Vietnam’s fertile Mekong Delta are forcing farmers and development…
China grows hungry for Arctic resources and shipping routes as northern ice melts.
As the Arctic sea-ice melts, the Dragon…
Treehugger: A new study in the Journal of Glaciology shows that the glaciers in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca mountain range are melting…
Guardian: The ecologically tumultuous year saw record greenhouse gas emissions, melting Arctic sea ice, natural disasters and extreme weather –…
Yale 360: Initial findings show great variation in ocean acidification. Around Antarctica and the Line Islands of the South Pacific,…
Guardian: Authorities urged to tackle urban planning issues amid concerns climate change puts Thai capital at risk of more frequent…
eia: World coal consumption by region, 1980-2010 (click to animate)
eia: Global coal demand has almost doubled since 1980, driven by increases…
Climate Central: Texas, Alabama and Missouri topped the list of states hardest hit by the unrelenting assault of extreme weather…
Guardian: The aftermath of the flooding which which affected about 143,000 people in 13 southern and central provinces
EEA: A new global web service allowing users to create maps and visualise data on environmental issues is now live.…
Philippine Red Cross: Tropical Storm Sendong (international name: Washi) ravaged Mindanao, slamming it with devastating rains and unleashing flash floods…
Bloomberg: Germany’s driest November has shrunk Europe’s rivers, creating monthlong delays for oil- and ore- carrying barges while uncovering the…
UNICEF: It’s not a tsunami or an earthquake – it is a predictable emergency. UNICEF estimates more than a million…
BarentsObserver: Gazprom will start production at its huge Arctic field of Bovanenkovo in May 2012. Continue
(Reuters) – The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Friday conditionally approved Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc’s revised plan…
Guardian: The US Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that fracking — a controversial method of improving…
Norwegian Petroleum Directorate: An atlas describing possible subsurface storage locations for carbon dioxide in the Norwegian part of the North…
With all the attention given to new technology for improving building design and performance, it’s easy to lose sight of…
NASA: By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth’s land surface and will drive…
(Reuters) – China has further revised up its solar power development target for 2015 by 50 percent from its previous…
BERKELEY — Trees are dying in the Sahel, a region in Africa south of the Sahara Desert, and human-caused climate change…
The Independent: Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide –…
Alertnet: Dec 11 (Reuters) – U.N. climate change talks in Durban, South Africa, agreed a package of measures early on…
Details of key decisions that emerged from COP17 in Durban
• Countries have already started to pledge to contribute…
(Reuters) – U.N. climate talks stalled after a rebellion by developing states most at risk from global warming, forcing host…
NRDC: We have to believe what we are witnessing with our own eyes — floods, fires, melting ice and…
(PhysOrg.com) — A major new scientific review, involving more than 30 scientists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands…
(Reuters) – Support grew on Thursday for an EU plan to agree a global climate change pact with binding targets…
ScienceDaily: Researchers have added further clarity to the global climate trend, proving that global warming is showing no signs of…
Global carbon dioxide emissions increased by a record 5.9 per cent in 2010 following the dampening effect of the 2008-2009…
Bloomberg: Thailand’s worst floods in more than a half century may have wiped out as much as 14 percent of…
ICIMOD: Findings from the most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt in Asia’s mountainous Hindu…
NOAA: Persistent warming has caused dramatic changes in the Arctic Ocean and the ecosystem it supports.
Ocean changes include reduced sea…
This website presents up-to-date developments in climate and energy policies across the 27 EU member states. With a uniquely developed…
ScienceDaily: Permafrost thaw will release approximately the same amount of carbon as deforestation, say the authors, but the effect on…
GermanWatch: Weather-related loss events and their impacts on countries in 2010 and 1991 to 2010
“Both extraordinary weather extremes in 2010…
Barents Observer: This year’s season on the Northern Sea Route was special in many ways. Not only was the route…
Guardian: UK-based oil explorer’s shares slump after controversial £400m drilling programme fails to find commercially viable site
