AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The InterAcademy Council (IAC), a multinational organization of the world’s science academies, has been requested to conduct…
10 March 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the United Nations-backed panel tasked with preparing regular scientific…
China’s top climate negotiator said on Wednesday that the cause of global warming was still not clear but the problems…
Forskere har opdaget 57 nye fiskearter i havet omkring Grønland
Forskere ved Statens Naturhistoriske Museum ved Københavns Universitet, har sammen med…
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 9, 2010 (Tierramérica) – Climate change science has come under full-scale attack in a last-ditch effort to…
CO2-udslippet i u-landene vokser voldsomt, ikke mindst i Indien og Kina. Men 23 procent af udledningen skyldes produktion til i-landene,…
UN-Water is dedicating World Water Day 2010 to the theme of water quality, reflecting its importance alongside quantity of the…
A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science finds that over a third of carbon dioxide emissions…
NEW DELHI, March 5, 2010: India is the largest user of groundwater in the world, with an estimated use of…
In Australia, several environmental groups have banded together to encourage a new approach to climate action. They’re steering away from…
A Met Office review of the latest climate research confirms our planet is changing rapidly and man-made greenhouse gas emissions…
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HANOI, 5 March 2010 (IRIN) – As temperatures rise in Vietnam, a nationwide drought has dried up riverbeds, sparked…
PORT OF SPAIN, Mar 4, 2010 (Tierramérica) – Caribbean countries are considering options like desalination plants and cloud seeding to…
Peter Sinclair, from Greenman Studio LLC, has generated a video about the body of scientific evidence on climate change. It…
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5 March 2010
This animation, made up of eight Envisat radar images, shows the 97-km long B-9B iceberg (right) ramming…
A review from the UK Met Office says it is becoming clearer that human activities are causing climate change.
It says…
A section of the Arctic Ocean seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and…
In an effort to ensure that diverse groups of actors whose decisions impact our planet’s water resources can make better…
Wave and tidal energy in England and Wales today received a boost as plans for the first full Strategic Environmental…
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Africa’s most spectacular water system comes brilliantly to life in a new book, Okavango Delta: Floods of Life, which…
Workers have begun tapping into underground water reserves to help the nearly 6 million people who have been affected by…
The Feb. 27 magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile may have shortened the length of each Earth day.
JPL research scientist Richard…
Key facts
* Climate change affects the fundamental requirements for health – clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure…
Compared with other mountainous regions worldwide, Himalayan glaciers are losing mass faster than European glaciers but slower than those in…
The Chile tsunami was generated by a Mw 8.8 earthquake (35.846°S, 72.719°W ), at 06:34 UTC, 115 km (60 miles)…
This article by Beth Hodgson originally appeared in GlobalPost.
Vancouver has been recognized for trying to make the Winter…
Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map
Cleo Paskal must be cursing the publishing gods.…
Putting greenhouses gases underground is the riskiest part of carbon capture and storage, yet it is often overlooked. Logan West…
China is preparing for the Arctic being navigable during summer months. An ice-free Arctic would provide China shorter shipping routes,…
In November 2006, the Secretary-General Kofi Annan launched the Nairobi Framework, aimed at supporting the application of the Kyoto Protocol’s…
Analyzing global model warming projections in models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a team of scientists headed…
Australian agriculture needs to adapt now to climate change according to a CSIRO book launched today entitled: Adapting Agriculture to…
Though there have been impressive efforts by many business leaders, hundreds of millions of individuals and families throughout the world…
Two million people have been affected by the massive earthquake that struck central Chile, Michelle Bachelet, the outgoing president, has…
RIO DE JANEIRO — A deadly 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday, ripping apart buildings, highways and bridges and…
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Until earlier this month, the “tongue” of the Mertz Glacier extended 160 km into the Southern Ocean from the…
credit: Hermann Fritz
In addition to smashing buildings and killing more than 200,000 people, Haiti’s devastating 12 January earthquake produced two…
At 94 kilometers (58 miles) by 39 kilometers (24 miles) in size, the B-09B iceberg is comparable to the state…
Ocean acidification is a new field of research in which most studies have been published in the past 10 years.…
credit: Barbara Wienecke
26 February 2010
A massive iceberg, measuring 78 kilometres long and 39 kilometres wide, has calved from the Mertz…
Launch of ET Carbon Ranking
Monday 22.02.2010 saw the launch of the Environmental Investment Organisation’s new Global Carbon Rankings. For the…
UNEP and Government of Indonesia Emphasize Role of Blue Carbon in Combating Climate Change
Indonesia’s Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries…
Program Summary: Human caused climate change is well underway and almost certain to continue in the decades ahead. Comprehensive risk…
Each year, scientists at NASA’S Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as…
