Culminating a 10-year exploration, 2,700 scientists from 80 nations report first Census of Marine Life, revealing what, where, and how…
Cairn Energy’s first Greenland oil drilling season was a “royal flush” and the company will invest $1.2bn (£755m) on up…
Deforestation rates in tropical countries dropped significantly during the first decade of the 21st century relative to the 1990s, reveals…
On September 23, 2010, in a briefing on “Extreme Weather in a Warming World” before the House Select Committee on…
Freshwater is flowing into Earth’s oceans in greater amounts every year, a team of researchers has found, thanks to more…
Oct. 7 :The toxic red sludge leak in Hungary reached the Danube River on Thursday as emergency officials worked to…
The federal government‟s estimates of the amount of oil flowing into and later remaining in the Gulf of Mexico in…
In the lead-up to the UN climate negotiations in Cancún, the latest information on the level and growth of CO2…
More than 3.4 billion people worldwide are already threatened by natural hazards, most of them in the developing world. Climate…
Indian per-capita emissions are still low but demand for energy is rising as the middle-class buys more cars, TVs and…
The world’s oceans are teeming with far greater diversity of life than was previously thought, according to the first Census…
The Nile follows an unusual course, flowing northward from the interior of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. For as long…
Groundbreaking new research by a former banker, Pavan Sukhdev, to place a price tag on the worldwide network of environmental…
European organisations dedicated to challenging scientific warnings about the gravity of climate change have refused to reveal who finances their…
Total Arctic Ice Volume for March 2010 is 20,300 km^3, the lowest over the 1979-2010 period and 38% below the…
Just last year experts at the International Energy Agency proposed a target for China’s carbon emissions to peak in 2020…
A new report from APAC Biofuel Consultants says Australia’s biofuel production will double by 2015.
Currently 40% of the country’s oil demand…
An unparalleled heat wave in eastern Europe, coupled with intense droughts and fires around Moscow, put Earth’s temperatures in the…
Details of the annual International Media Excellence Awards run by the Association for International Broadcasting
Welcome to the AIBs People’s Choice…
About 80% of the world’s population lives in areas where the fresh water supply is not secure, according to a…
Most of BP’s spilled oil remains in the Gulf — with little sign of degrading, according to Ian MacDonald of…
America’s military should wean itself off oil by 2040 in order to end the high vulnerability of its fuel supply…
Storms have triggered heavy flooding and forced thousands from their homes across the area. The Atlantic hurricane season, which runs…
More than 20% of the world’s 380,000 plant species are at risk…
Up to 300 houses have been buried by a landslide in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, officials have said.
Heavy…
Members from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling will hold their third meeting…
In March 2008, The Danish Government appointed a Commission on Climate Change, which consists…
The availability of accurate, dependable, concise and clear information on anthropogenic climate change increases every year.
Here is a shortlist of…
This video gives a good basic description of how The Law of the Sea will be used to divide the…
Scientists say desertification of the mountain grasslands of the Tibetan plateau is accelerating climate change
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In recent decades, the rate at which humans worldwide are pumping dry the vast underground stores of water that billions…
The web pages, produced with the support of leading scientists from the Met Office Hadley Centre and others, present an…
The recent devastation to the Gulf of Mexico caused by the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion and subsequent spill of…
Now, in the first independent, peer-reviewed paper on the leak’s volume, scientists have affirmed heightened estimates of what is now…
Climate change will affect the water security of developing countries. Lucinda Mileham explores their priorities as they struggle to cope.
Freshwater…
Many people don’t believe in global warming because everyday life may have trained them to doubt it, according to a…
The multiple-objective Alpha-1S1 well has reached an intermediate depth of 4,358 metres (m) in volcanic sections. Following the conducting of…
Below the surface, thousands of marine creatures are still in danger from Gulf oil disaster
The Avaldsnes discovery is estimated to contain recoverable resources of 100 – 400 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe) within…
A new paper has just been published employing a new technique for reconstructing past temperatures (Kellerhals 2010). It uses Ammonium…
BP has successfully completed the relief well by intersecting and cementing the well nearly 18,000 feet below the surface
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China can’t dam or divert water quickly enough to keep up with its thirsty population, and the shortage has reached…
The United Nations and its partners today launched their largest-ever natural disaster appeal, seeking more than $2 billion for millions…
The protective ozone layer in the earth’s upper atmosphere has stopped thinning and should largely be restored by mid century…
Record-breaking summer temperatures and the warmest year to date in 131 years are wreaking havoc on the global environment, say…
Millions of Indians can’t access fresh water on a daily basis, Shreyasi Singh reports. And the situation is set to…
Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its annual minimum extent on 10 September. The minimum ice extent was the…
Russia and Norway today ended a bitter 40-year dispute over their maritime borders and signed a treaty that will allow…
Rob Dunbar hunts for data on our climate from 12,000 years ago, finding clues inside ancient seabeds and corals and…
Dr. Samantha Joye has returned to the Gulf of Mexico on the Research Vessel Oceanus (see the Gulf Oil Blog).…
