Human use of Earth’s natural resources is making the air, oceans, freshwaters, and soils more acidic, according to a U.S.…
Knowing the number of species on Earth is one of the most basic yet elusive questions in science. Unfortunately,…
Jul 29, 2011 (IPS) – Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life…
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — In 2007, the largest recorded tundra fire in the Arctic released approximately as much carbon into the…
For eons, the polar marine food chain has been closely linked to the seasonal formation and retreat of sea ice.…
The extent of projected changes in winter chill in many major growing regions of fruits and nuts indicates that growers…
Credit: NASA/Jenny Mottar
Soon observations from NASA’s Earth-observing satellites of our planet’s climate will be brought to bear on understanding how…
Australian scientists have reported the first known detrimental impact of southern hemisphere ocean warming on a fish species.
The findings of…
There is increasing concern among scientists that ocean acidification, the so-called “evil twin” of climate change, could affect the functioning…
Declines in managed bee colonies date back to the mid 1960s in Europe but have accelerated since 1998, especially in…
Russia’s boreal forest — the largest continuous expanse of forest in the world, found in the country’s cold northern regions…
GENEVA 5 APRIL 2011 (WMO) — Depletion of the ozone layer- the shield that protects life on Earth from harmful…
For the first 25 years after an oil-palm plantation is established in a peat-swamp forest, about 60 tonnes of carbon…
Record warm ocean temperatures across much of Earth’s tropical oceans during the summer of 2010 created the second worst year…
Scientists have found evidence of a “drastic” shift since the 1970s in north Atlantic Ocean currents that usually influence weather…
It is a difficult idea to fathom. But the science is clear: Unless we change the way we live, the…
More than 20% of the world’s 380,000 plant species are at risk…
The microscopic plants that support all life in the oceans are dying off at a dramatic rate, according to a…
The study, based on analysis satellite images collected by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and led by…
The first comprehensive synthesis on the effects of climate change on the world’s oceans has found they are now changing…
Walter W. Immerzeel, Ludovicus P. H. van Beek, Marc F. P. Bierkens
More than 1.4 billion people depend on water from…
Most of global warming goes into the ocean. Consequently, the amount of heat accumulating in the world’s oceans is a…
Credit: The end of the Line
New York, 17 May 2010-Investing around US$8 billion a year in rebuilding and greening the…
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…
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,…
A group of 255 of the world’s top scientists today wrote an open letter aimed at restoring public faith in…
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 oil slick that is expanding from the site of an oil rig collapse last week has been spotted from…
A deep ocean current with a volume equivalent to 40 Amazon Rivers has been discovered by Japanese and Australian scientists…
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…
More than one in six mangrove species worldwide are in danger of extinction due to coastal development and other factors,…
For the first time scientists have put a figure on how much it would cost to learn about the conservation…
Nature is delighted to present this biodiversity supplement for 2010, International Year of Biodiversity. As nations come together to reduce…
To mark the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, The Nature Conservancy is publishing The Atlas of Global Conservation, which presents…
Paleo-perspectives on ocean acidification
Carles Pelejero1, , Eva Calvo2 and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg3
1 Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and…
ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2010) — A new study involving scientists from 13 different organizations, universities and research institutions states that…
