This report describes the outcomes from a CSIRO global foresight project. It presents five megatrends and eight megashocks (global risks)…
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,…
For the first time scientists have put a figure on how much it would cost to learn about the conservation…
Nature is delighted to present this biodiversity supplement for 2010, International Year of Biodiversity. As nations come together to reduce…
The IGBP Climate-Change Index brings together key indicators of global change: atmospheric carbon dioxide, temperature, sea level and sea ice.
About…
Stockholm Resilience Center: Centre director Johan Rockström among prominent list of speakers at State of the Planet 2010.
Rockström was among…
Connecting Voices Globally to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change, Poverty and Economic Recovery
Global Event
On March 25, State of the…
They must change to cope with population growth and climate change or face social unrest and urban decay
(SYDNEY) Australia circa…
Almost 10 million people across the Sahel region of West Africa are threatened with a severe food shortage, international aid…
A fascinating paper well worth reading is Denialism: what is it and how should scientists respond? (Diethelm & McKee 2009)…
WHO, along with UNDP, launch in 2010 the first global project on public health adaptation to climate change. This series…
Population growth, urban development, farm production, and climate change is increasing competition for fresh water and producing shortages so acute…
Australia’s two lead climate science agencies – the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology – have produced a snapshot of the…
A low-cost water purification technique published in Current Protocols in Microbiology could help drastically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease…
JOHANNESBURG, 12 March 2010 (IRIN) – As the level of carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere, we will probably see…
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…
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…
In an effort to ensure that diverse groups of actors whose decisions impact our planet’s water resources can make better…
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…
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…
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…
UNEP and Government of Indonesia Emphasize Role of Blue Carbon in Combating Climate Change
Indonesia’s Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries…
Today at Yale Environment 360, journalist David Biello visits the only coal-fired power plant in the world that currently captures…
The southern limit of permafrost around the James Bay region in Quebec has moved 80 miles to the north since…
The development of alternative fuel will greatly benefit the U.S., say scientists in an Energy Foundation-funded report published February 16…
This figure tracks newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming in 50 newspapers across 20 countries and 6 continents.
Max…
January 31, 2010 marked the deadline for parties to the Copenhagen Accord to submit their respective plans for reducing greenhouse…
Watch the official International Year of Biodiversity video and learn more about the value of biodiversity and why it is…
