WWF: An ever-growing demand for resources by a growing population is putting tremendous pressures on our planet’s biodiversity and is…
The Land Matrix is an online public database of large-scale land deals. It provides a visualisation of records documenting land deals…
NAS: National science academies from 15 countries issued joint statements today calling on world leaders who are about to meet…
Royal Society: Rapid and widespread changes in the world’s human population, coupled with unprecedented levels of consumption present profound challenges…
In celebration of Earth Day this year, NASA’s Webby Award-winning Global Climate Change website has unveiled a new version of its…
Country sizes show the carbon footprint of all goods and services consumed in a nation, including imports and excluding exports.…
Anthropocene.info is a beta version. Phase two and phase three of the site development will be complete by the end of…
Planet Under Pressure: Scientists issue first “State of the Planet” declaration at the world’s largest gathering of experts on global…
WMO : Climate change accelerated in 2001-2010, according to preliminary assessment
The World Meteorological Organization’s Annual Statement on the Status of the…
ODNI: Global Water Security
The Bottom Line: During the next 10 years, many regions will experience water challenges – shortages, poor…
Act now or face costly consequences, warns OECD
OECD: Humanity has witnessed unprecedented growth and prosperity in the past decades, with…
University of East Anglia: The most comprehensive dataset of surface water carbon dioxide measurements for the world’s oceans and coastal…
Fast Facts
Climate change is continuing
Warming has been measured around Australia and globally during recent decades
2010…
World Bank: A powerful coalition of governments, international organizations, civil society groups and private interests are joining together under the…
The Independent: Large regions of the open ocean are being starved of oxygen because of warmer sea temperatures according to…
NASA Interactive: Global Temp 1884 – 2011
NASA: The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880,…
UNISDR: 302 human impact disasters claimed 29,782 lives; affected 206 million and inflicted record economic damages of $366 billion in…
Economic imbalances and social inequality risk reversing the gains of globalization, warns the World Economic Forum in its…
Munich Re: A sequence of devastating earthquakes and a large number of weather-related catastrophes made 2011 the costliest year ever…
Skeptical Science : Dramatic events grab headlines, and in the 2011 weather & climate sections of newspapers we’ve seen walls of…
Guardian: The ecologically tumultuous year saw record greenhouse gas emissions, melting Arctic sea ice, natural disasters and extreme weather –…
OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050, Forthcoming in 2012
Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continue to increase, and in 2010 global energy-related…
CPWF: This week, the Challenge Program on Water and Food is convening the third International Forum on Water and Food…
viewsoftheworld: World Population 2085
A lot has changed from the 2.5…
The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study aims to contribute to a clearer understanding of global warming based on a more…
The Global Water Cycle is an integral part of the Earth System. It plays a central role in global atmospheric…
NATURE Climate Change: On 31 October 2011, according to projections made by the United Nations (UN), there will be seven…
Territory size shows the proportion of carbon dioxide emissions in 2000 that were directly from there.
Human use of Earth’s natural resources is making the air, oceans, freshwaters, and soils more acidic, according to a U.S.…
Guardian: The world’s biggest physical changes in the past few years are mostly seen nearest the poles where climate change…
NOAA: The globe had its eighth warmest August since record keeping began in 1880, while June through August was the…
Johan Rockström, Executive Director of SEI, speaks about planetary boundaries in an interview produced by Beyond The Line.
“We’re pushing the limits…
The Global Adaptation Index (GaIn) summarizes a country’s Vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges on the one hand and…
Center for Biological Diversity
Our planet’s nearing a milestone: By the end of October, there will be a staggering 7 billion…
INED: THE world population will reach seven billion later this year, with increases in the number of people in Africa…
WRI’s portal for water risk analysis. This website contains information on the Aqueduct project, and the prototype of the Water…
ScienceDaily (Aug. 9, 2011) — The world’s established forests remove 2.4 billion tonnes of carbon per year from the atmosphere —…
Climate scientists agree that the existing gap between climate science and climate policy is profound. If the international community –…
By Christine Stebbins
CHICAGO, July 26 (Reuters) – Rich countries grabbing farmland in Africa to feed their growing populations can leave…
One in 10 species could face extinction by the year 2100 if current climate change impacts continue. This is the…
Several large-scale climate patterns influenced climate conditions and weather patterns across the globe during 2010. The transition from a warm…
BY LESTER BROWN | JANUARY 10, 2011
As the new year begins, the price of wheat is setting an all-time high in the…
Global Warming Effects Around the World
The Union of Concerned Scientists has created this Google Map to show…
A high-level international workshop convened by IPSO met at the University of Oxford earlier this year. It was the first…
The IEA sets the record straight on energy-related misperceptions
Myth: We could end dependence on oil with electric vehicles within a…
Geneva/Oslo, 6 June 2011 – Over 42 million people across the world were forced to flee due to disasters triggered…
In the past year, the world has seen a large number of extreme weather events, from the Russian heat wave…
The Stockholm Memorandum concludes that the planet has entered a new geological age, the Anthropocene. It recommends a suite of…
The Gulf nations of Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are rated as the world’s most water stressed countries, with…
