Indian per-capita emissions are still low but demand for energy is rising as the middle-class buys more cars, TVs and…
The 2009 State of the Climate report draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the…
The two main objectives of the research were to examine global trends in phytoplankton over time and to determine what…
A new interactive Google Earth map showing the impacts of a 4 °C warmer world was launched today by the…
Despite the continued economic crisis, global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, have remained constant in 2009, as…
Sir David King, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, has today called on governments to recognise…
If the world’s major nations fail to enact significant changes in energy and climate policies, global carbon dioxide emissions will…
Most of global warming goes into the ocean. Consequently, the amount of heat accumulating in the world’s oceans is a…
April 2010 —
The Global Economy and Development program at Brookings today released a new report — “Climate Crisis, Credit Crisis:…
DNV and the energy industry, with valuable contribution from government agencies, have developed the world’s most comprehensive guideline for safe…
New data released today reveals greenhouse gas emissions across the EU are in steep decline. Emissions covered by the EU…
Paleo-perspectives on ocean acidification
Carles Pelejero1, , Eva Calvo2 and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg3
1 Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and…
Connecting Voices Globally to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change, Poverty and Economic Recovery
Global Event
On March 25, State of the…
Amid a growing call for reducing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 to 350 parts per million, a group of economists maintains…
Across western North America, huge tracts of forest are dying off at an extraordinary rate, mostly because of outbreaks of…
The Senate is close to wrapping up talks ahead of introducing a compromise climate change bill
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/03/17/us/politics/politics-us-climate-usa-congress.html?_r=1
WASHINGTON, DC, March 16, 2010 – A new study involving scientists from 13 different organizations, universities and research institutions states…
A new assessment of the Arctic’s biodiversity reports a 26 per cent decline in species populations in the high Arctic.
Populations…
They must change to cope with population growth and climate change or face social unrest and urban decay
(SYDNEY) Australia circa…
In a finding that may speed efforts to conserve oil and intensify the search for alternative fuel sources, scientists in…
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The InterAcademy Council (IAC), a multinational organization of the world’s science academies, has been requested to conduct…
A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science finds that over a third of carbon dioxide emissions…
In Australia, several environmental groups have banded together to encourage a new approach to climate action. They’re steering away from…
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…
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.…
Putting greenhouses gases underground is the riskiest part of carbon capture and storage, yet it is often overlooked. Logan West…
Analyzing global model warming projections in models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a team of scientists headed…
Though there have been impressive efforts by many business leaders, hundreds of millions of individuals and families throughout the world…
Ocean acidification is a new field of research in which most studies have been published in the past 10 years.…
Launch of ET Carbon Ranking
Monday 22.02.2010 saw the launch of the Environmental Investment Organisation’s new Global Carbon Rankings. For the…
More Ambition Needed if Greenhouse Gases are to Peak in Time, Says New UNEP Report
Pledges Post Copenhagen Unlikely to Keep…
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…
Overexploit, cheat, deplete. The cycle of greed behind the global whaling industry drove one whale population after another toward oblivion.
It…
Today at Yale Environment 360, journalist David Biello visits the only coal-fired power plant in the world that currently captures…
The U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer has resigned to join a consultancy group as an adviser, the U.N. climate…
