Greenpeace: 32,000 life years would be robbed every year if the coal-fired power plants currently under construction or in planning…
Yale Environment 360: Recent studies show that many of the world’s savannas, including famed African landscapes such as the Serengeti,…
Eco-Business: Governments around the world have just received one of the most important scientific reports ever written. It provides the…
eia: This report provides an initial assessment of shale oil resources and updates a prior assessment of shale gas resources…
World Energy Outlook Special Report
New estimates for global energy related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2012 reveal a 1.4% increase,…
NASA: A new dataset called Bedmap2 gives a clearer picture of Antarctica from the ice surface down to the bedrock…
AUS Climate Commission : Last week, University of Queensland researcher John Cook sparked a worldwide discussion on the gap between the…
UNISDR: GENEVA, 6 June 2013 – The Head of UNISDR, Margareta Wahlström, today welcomed the emphasis placed on the links…
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) 69th Annual General Meeting (AGM) overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution on “Implementation of the Aviation Carbon-Neutral…
ClimateProgress: It was a dry spring across the country, and as of last Thursday (the most recent update), U.S. Drought…
Potsdam: 05/30/2013 – Researchers identified a number of hotspots both of global climate change impacts and the science that deals…
Reuters: Shipping along the Arctic northern sea route is set to grow more than 30-fold over the next eight years…
Yale 360: More than 1.2 billion people still do not have access to electricity, and 2.8 billion still rely on…
ctv news: The world’s first carbon capture and storage facility is set to start testing in Saskatchewan and it’s already…
Guardian: The majority of the 9 billion people on Earth will live with severe pressure on fresh water within the…
IEA: Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2013 examines progress in the development and deployment of key clean energy technologies. Each technology…
Potsdam: The IMPACTS WORLD 2013 conference aims to develop a new vision for climate impacts research by laying the foundations…
Guardian: World on course to run out of water, warns Ban Ki-moon
Speaking on the UN’s International Day of Biological Diversity,…
Water in the Anthropocene is a 3-minute film charting the global impact of humans on the water cycle. Evidence is…
Climate change has altered not only the overall magnitude of rainfall but also its seasonal distribution and interannual variability worldwide.…
The Financial Times: Water shortages put a brake on economic growth
In the face of China’s rapid economic expansion and growing…
The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council has released the “Arctic…
CU-Boulder: While 99 percent of Earth’s land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining…
UBC: Climate change has been impacting global fisheries for the past four decades by driving species towards cooler, deeper waters,…
GDACS: Summary
This flood can have a high humanitarian impact based on the Magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.
Flood…
IDCM: The Global Estimates report reveals that 32.4 million people were forced to flee their homes in 2012 by disasters…
Tyndall UEA: Climate change is expected to have significant influences on terrestrial biodiversity at all system levels, including species-level reductions…
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/weekly.html
Guardian: Global carbon dioxide in atmosphere passes milestone level.
For the first time in human history, the concentration of climate-warming carbon…
UNSW, CCRC: Plastic garbage has made its way into every ocean in the world. New research shows that it doesn’t…
UNSW : The first continental-scale reconstruction of temperatures over the past 2000 years by 78 scientists from 24 countries has…
Phys.org: The water found on the moon, like that on Earth, came from small meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites in the…
Guardian: Potsdam Institute projection suggests population growth would increase imported food, even without climate change.
Although many countries choose to import…
WMO: The World Meteorological Organization’s Statement on the Status of the Global Climate says that 2012 joined the ten previous…
guardian: Senior US government officials are to be briefed at the White House this week on the danger of an…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgiMBxaL19M
Arctic News: Above a tilted screenshot from the animation below, by Andy Lee Robinson, of Arctic Sea Ice minimum volumes…
Scripps Institution of Oceanography: A daily record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
EU Climate Action: The European Commission today presents a package to advance action on adaptation to climate change: firstly, the…
Alfred Wegener Institute: Around half of the carbon dioxide volume discharged into the atmosphere through exhaust pipes and chimney stacks…
Every year on April 22, more than one billion people take part in Earth Day. Across the globe, individuals, communities,…
CarbonTracker: This new research from Carbon Tracker and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE…
Progress towards clean energy has stalled, IEA says
Today, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2013
Key Findings:
Stark messages…
Sceptical Science: Living and working on the Earth’s surface it is very easy to get the wrong idea about global…
Guardian: We have far more oil, coal and gas than we can safely burn. For all the millions of words…
Worldwatch Institute: Every day, we are presented with a range of “sustainable” products and activities—from “green” cleaning supplies to carbon…
MEPs voted on Tuesday 16 April against freezing auctions of a portion of CO2 emission quotas, so as to boost…
British Antarctic Survey: A new 1000-year Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction shows that summer ice melting has intensified almost ten-fold, and…
Guardian: Drought, rocketing bread prices, food and water shortages have all blighted parts of the Middle East. Analysts at the…
ScienceDaily: Harvard researchers are adding nuance to our understanding of how modern and historical temperatures compare. Through their statistical model…
