(PhysOrg.com) — How deep is the ocean’s capacity to buffer against climate change? As one of the planet’s largest single carbon…
ScienceDaily (Aug. 9, 2011) — The world’s established forests remove 2.4 billion tonnes of carbon per year from the atmosphere —…
Josep G. Canadell and Michael R. Raupach
Forests currently absorb billions of tons of CO2 globally…
The study, based on analysis satellite images collected by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and led by…
As the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has amply demonstrated, growing global energy demand and the anticipated restricted availability…
The first comprehensive synthesis on the effects of climate change on the world’s oceans has found they are now changing…
Emissions from land use change, mainly tropical forest loss, contribute an estimated 17.4% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC…
ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2010) — A new study involving scientists from 13 different organizations, universities and research institutions states that…
Across western North America, huge tracts of forest are dying off at an extraordinary rate, mostly because of outbreaks of…
Ocean acidification is a new field of research in which most studies have been published in the past 10 years.…
UNEP and Government of Indonesia Emphasize Role of Blue Carbon in Combating Climate Change
Indonesia’s Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries…
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary…
Case Studies on Moving Towards a Low Carbon Economy United Nations Environment Programme
Supporting countries in meeting the climate change challenge
In…
Nobel Laureates and senior government ministers joined activists and academics to call for action on forests in Copenhagen
Nearly 1500 people…
As the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen approaches its conclusion, negotiations are focusing on the role of forests in mitigating…
Negotiators have all but completed a sweeping deal that would compensate countries for preserving forests, and in some cases, other…
SEI, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) launch A Copenhagen Prognosis:…
NASA gets cash to replace a failed carbon-emissions observatory, but concerns remain over future funding.
The replacement Orbiting Carbon Observatory will…
Copenhagen, December 15, 2009: The launch of the Planetary Skin Institute in
Copenhagen today represents a breakthrough research and development approach…
Tropical forest destruction accounts for some 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But quantifying these emissions has not been easy,…
The international community is mobilizing to reduce the nearly 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions attributable to deforestation by…
This report examines how Europe can show leadership in keeping global climate change within these limits: firstly, by undertaking domestic…
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new modeling methodology for determining the capacity…
Australia has highly diverse and unique marine flora and fauna, ranging from spectacular coral reefs in the tropics to giant…
New research from the Soil Association reveals that if all UK farmland was converted to organic farming, at least 3.2…
One the eve of the Copenhagen climate conference, Global Footprint Network is releasing data today that reveals a growing gap…
Forest Monitoring for Action (FORMA)
Forest destruction accounts for about 15% of carbon dioxide emissions, much of it in tropical forests…
The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans…
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For the past year, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana has traveled the world offering to place his…
The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures…
UNEP: Policy-makers who factor the planet’s multi-trillion dollar ecosystem services into their national and international investment strategies are likely to…
The rate of deforestation in the Amazon has dropped by 45% and is the lowest on record since monitoring began…
Report Calls for Global Climate Talks to Consider Boreal’s Impact
When the world thinks of forests and their value to offset…
This happens when a change in our climate causes an impact which changes our climate further — a knock-on effect…
By banning logging, mining and oil drilling in an area twice the size of California, Canada is ensuring its boreal…
CARBOOCEAN will determine the ocean’s quantitative role for uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), the…
The CARBOOCEAN Consortium consists of 47 international groups that have started an integrated research activity on the marine carbon cycle…
A new map illustrating the global consequences of failing to keep temperature change to under 2 °C was launched today…
The arctic could potentially alter the Earth’s climate by becoming a possible source of global atmospheric carbon dioxide. The arctic…
