If the world’s major nations fail to enact significant changes in energy and climate policies, global carbon dioxide emissions will…
Water for Food, Water for Life
Water scarcity is a reality for about 1/3 of the world’s population. Driving increasing water…
Global Highlights
* The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for March 2010 was the warmest on record at…
Governments must start closing the gap between their low ambitions for emissions cuts and the urgent need to prevent dangerous…
Connecting Voices Globally to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change, Poverty and Economic Recovery
Global Event
On March 25, State of the…
Temperatures have risen steadily since the 1970s, Jim Hansen and fellow scientists conclude.
By Douglas Fischer
Daily Climate editor
Global warming has neither…
Amid a growing call for reducing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 to 350 parts per million, a group of economists maintains…
The climate change debate should be reframed in economic and security terms ahead of a year-end UN summit in Mexico…
WASHINGTON, DC, March 16, 2010 – A new study involving scientists from 13 different organizations, universities and research institutions states…
by Staff Writers
Beijing (AFP) March 17, 2010
Millions of people face drinking water shortages in southwestern China because of a once-a-century…
They must change to cope with population growth and climate change or face social unrest and urban decay
(SYDNEY) Australia circa…
A fascinating paper well worth reading is Denialism: what is it and how should scientists respond? (Diethelm & McKee 2009)…
March 16, 2010
Last month’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made it the sixth warmest February ever recorded. Additionally,…
Australia’s two lead climate science agencies – the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology – have produced a snapshot of the…
JOHANNESBURG, 12 March 2010 (IRIN) – As the level of carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere, we will probably see…
This year, Environmental Science & Technology is honoring 10 papers published in 2009 as the year’s best. They were selected…
Verdens dyr og planter udryddes nu hurtigere, end nye arter kan udvikles – for første gang siden dinosaurerne forsvandt fra…
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…
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 9, 2010 (Tierramérica) – Climate change science has come under full-scale attack in a last-ditch effort to…
credit: ESA
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…
Workers have begun tapping into underground water reserves to help the nearly 6 million people who have been affected by…
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…
This article by Beth Hodgson originally appeared in GlobalPost.
Vancouver has been recognized for trying to make the Winter…
Putting greenhouses gases underground is the riskiest part of carbon capture and storage, yet it is often overlooked. Logan West…
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…
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…
Each year, scientists at NASA’S Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as…
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is showing an extraordinary range of benefits from the network of protected marine reserves introduced…
More Ambition Needed if Greenhouse Gases are to Peak in Time, Says New UNEP Report
Pledges Post Copenhagen Unlikely to Keep…
Climate change is expected to bring less precipitation and more extreme droughts to certain parts of the world, causing electricity…
According to newly published letter from NASA and university researchers in Nature Geoscience (Rapid submarine melting of the calving faces…
AAAS 2010 Annual Meeting News
A panel of influential U.S. and European scientists yesterday affirmed the overwhelming scientific consensus that the…
We must not be distracted from science’s urgent message: we are fuelling dangerous changes in Earth’s climate.
* Jeffrey Sachs *…
This figure tracks newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming in 50 newspapers across 20 countries and 6 continents.
Max…
The U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer has resigned to join a consultancy group as an adviser, the U.N. climate…
