UNITED NATIONS — The process used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to produce its periodic assessment reports has…
As part of its most comprehensive study of climate change to date, the National Research Council issued three reports emphasizing…
Does the failure of December’s UN climate conference mean the world needs a completely new approach to tackling climate change?…
A new direction for climate policy
Rapid advance in addressing climate change is now possible for the first time in 15…
The 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 163 countries on 25 performance indicators tracked across ten policy categories covering both…
April 2010 —
The Global Economy and Development program at Brookings today released a new report — “Climate Crisis, Credit Crisis:…
All the data you need to show that the world is warming
April 14, 2010: Posted by: Scott A. Mandia, Professor…
Europe can switch to low carbon sources of energy without jeopardising reliability or forcing up energy bills to punitive levels,…
BONN, Germany, April 11 (Reuters) – The world cannot agree a final climate deal this year, outgoing U.N. climate chief…
By Richard Black, Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Bonn
The need for a new global climate deal is “greater than ever”,…
Governments must start closing the gap between their low ambitions for emissions cuts and the urgent need to prevent dangerous…
Government leaders, ministers and advisers gathered in London on Wednesday for the first meeting of a panel set up by…
The Sophie Prize 2010 is awarded to American climate scientist Dr. James E. Hansen. Hansen has played a key role…
Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
Humanity’s failure to take adequate actions to stem a likely…
The city of Malmö (Sweden), Murcia (Spain)and Stargard Szczecinski (Poland) have been nominated for the Sustainable City Award 2010. This…
(Bonn, 31 March 2010) The UN Climate Change Secretariat Wednesday published official reports on the results of last years…
ICLEI, in partnership with the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), has launched the Local Renewables Web…
SAN FRANCISCO – The green economy continues to show almost remarkable signs of vitality, business leaders say, despite the near-total…
Stockholm Resilience Center: Centre director Johan Rockström among prominent list of speakers at State of the Planet 2010.
Rockström was among…
ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2010) — A new study involving scientists from 13 different organizations, universities and research institutions states that…
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…
The climate change debate should be reframed in economic and security terms ahead of a year-end UN summit in Mexico…
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…
They must change to cope with population growth and climate change or face social unrest and urban decay
(SYDNEY) Australia circa…
MAINZ, Germany, Mar 16, 2010 First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) on Tuesday announced that it had joined the Desertec Industrial…
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…
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…
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 9, 2010 (Tierramérica) – Climate change science has come under full-scale attack in a last-ditch effort to…
Peter Sinclair, from Greenman Studio LLC, has generated a video about the body of scientific evidence on climate change. It…
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.…
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…
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Until earlier this month, the “tongue” of the Mertz Glacier extended 160 km into the Southern Ocean from the…
Ocean acidification is a new field of research in which most studies have been published in the past 10 years.…
