Guardian: World on course to run out of water, warns Ban Ki-moon
Speaking on the UN’s International Day of Biological Diversity,…
Climate change has altered not only the overall magnitude of rainfall but also its seasonal distribution and interannual variability worldwide.…
The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council has released the “Arctic…
UBC: Climate change has been impacting global fisheries for the past four decades by driving species towards cooler, deeper waters,…
Tyndall UEA: Climate change is expected to have significant influences on terrestrial biodiversity at all system levels, including species-level reductions…
Sceptical Science: Living and working on the Earth’s surface it is very easy to get the wrong idea about global…
NASA: Vegetation growth at Earth’s northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study based…
CCRC; Aus: Shallow coral reefs may be even more susceptible to increasing acidity caused by heightened levels of carbon dioxide…
EEA: There are more than 10 000 alien species present in Europe, and the rate of new introductions has accelerated…
Polar Bears International: A University of Alberta polar bear researcher along with eleven international co-authors, including Polar Bear International’s chief…
NASA: An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a…
USGS: Plant and animal species are shifting their geographic ranges and the timing of their life events – such as…
Anthropogenic climate change is predicted to be a major cause of species extinctions in the next 100 years. But what…
Bristol University: Speaking at the Third International Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World this week in Monterey, California,…
(AlertNet) – Climate change is a major threat to the world’s food supply and to biodiversity, and prompt action to…
Oceana’s new report, Ocean-Based Food Security Threatened in a High CO2 World ranks nations to show which are most vulnerable…
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: Coral reefs face severe challenges even if global warming is restricted to the 2…
Biology Letters: Recent studies predict that the Arctic Ocean will have ice-free summers within the next 30 years. This poses…
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies: Life in the world’s oceans faces far greater change and risk of large-scale…
The 2012 Marine Climate Change in Australia Report Card demonstrates that climate change is having significant impacts on Australia’s marine ecosystems.
Key…
Science: The burning of fossil fuels emits some 35 billion metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. That…
Guardian: Oceans’ rising acid levels have emerged as one of the biggest threats to coral reefs, acting as the…
A shifting Arctic
Standford: While the discovery marks the first direct observation of an under-ice bloom, the conditions that allow for…
Scientists uncover evidence of impending tipping point for Earth
UC Berkeley: A prestigious group of scientists from around the world is…
RTCC: Overfishing, warming waters, ocean acidification and pollution are all terms we are becoming more aware of as it slowly…
Yale360: U.S. scientists this week unveiled a new online resource that maps the distribution of species worldwide and will ultimately…
(IPS) – Without major reductions in the use of fossil fuels, sunlight is to kill an unknown number of ocean…
(Reuters) – Saving biodiversity — the vast and essential variety of the natural world — will be expensive, at an…
NASA: Coral reefs are spectacular underwater ecosystems. However, they are deteriorating at an alarming rate, due mainly to human activity…
Agricultural expansion and climate variability have become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon basin
The Amazon basin in transition
Eric A.…
NASA: By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth’s land surface and will drive…
(PhysOrg.com) — A major new scientific review, involving more than 30 scientists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands…
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Yale 360: The acidification of the world’s oceans from an excess of CO2 emissions has already begun, as…
Center for Biological Diversity
Our planet’s nearing a milestone: By the end of October, there will be a staggering 7 billion…
Knowing the number of species on Earth is one of the most basic yet elusive questions in science. Unfortunately,…
A meta-study published in Science today provides the first evidence that global movement of plants and animals to higher latitudes and…
PlosONE: This paper provides scientific expert judgement and a semi-quantitative analysis of past, present and future impacts of human-related activities…
Jul 29, 2011 (IPS) – Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life…
One in 10 species could face extinction by the year 2100 if current climate change impacts continue. This is the…
Starting Earth Day 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners are sharing stories about how accelerating climate…
For eons, the polar marine food chain has been closely linked to the seasonal formation and retreat of sea ice.…
A high-level international workshop convened by IPSO met at the University of Oxford earlier this year. It was the first…
The extent of projected changes in winter chill in many major growing regions of fruits and nuts indicates that growers…
The acidification of the world’s oceans could have major consequences for the marine environment. New research shows that coccoliths, which…
A report released today identifies 13 of the richest and most vulnerable places in the Arctic Ocean that should be…
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…
A new NASA-funded study has revealed widespread reductions in the greenness of the forests in the vast Amazon basin in…
Australian scientists have reported the first known detrimental impact of southern hemisphere ocean warming on a fish species.
The findings of…
The coastline in Arctic regions reacts to climate change with increased erosion…
