The web pages, produced with the support of leading scientists from the Met Office Hadley Centre and others, present an…
By Richard Black, Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Bonn
The need for a new global climate deal is “greater than ever”,…
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…
A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science finds that over a third of carbon dioxide emissions…
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…
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…
Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map
Cleo Paskal must be cursing the publishing gods.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The household goods giant Unilever has distanced itself from a major palm-oil producer after a BBC documentary filmed its staff…
According to newly published letter from NASA and university researchers in Nature Geoscience (Rapid submarine melting of the calving faces…
We must not be distracted from science’s urgent message: we are fuelling dangerous changes in Earth’s climate.
* Jeffrey Sachs *…
See the bigger picture
You are an integral part of nature; your fate is tightly linked with biodiversity, the huge…
Overexploit, cheat, deplete. The cycle of greed behind the global whaling industry drove one whale population after another toward oblivion.
It…
The Forest Footprint Disclosure Project (FFD Project) is a new UK government-supported initiative, created to help investors identify how an…
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…
