Over the past year, the world has witnessed weather events on four continents so extreme that they stretch the limits…
The troubling story of how a cadre of influential scientists have clouded public understanding of scientific facts to advance a…
According to NOAA scientists, 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year of the global surface temperature record, beginning in…
Carbon dioxide already emitted into the atmosphere will keep contributing to global warming for centuries, eventually causing a huge Antarctic…
The year 2010 is almost certain to rank among the three warmest years since the beginning of instrumental climate records…
The vulnerability to climate change varies significantly across regions…
United Nations climate change negotiations have failed to deliver an agreement on reducing future greenhouse gas emissions to levels that…
The world warmed more rapidly than previously thought over the past decade, according to a Met Office report published today,…
In the first comprehensive global survey of temperature trends in major lakes, NASA researchers determined Earth’s largest lakes have warmed…
Record high temperatures for 17 nations that have broken their national records so far in 2010. Previously, the largest number…
A new global ranking, calculating the vulnerability of 170 countries to the impacts of climate change over the next 30…
Freshwater is flowing into Earth’s oceans in greater amounts every year, a team of researchers has found, thanks to more…
New research published in the Oct. 7 edition of Nature adds to growing evidence that, even though the temperature increase…
The availability of accurate, dependable, concise and clear information on anthropogenic climate change increases every year.
Here is a shortlist of…
The web pages, produced with the support of leading scientists from the Met Office Hadley Centre and others, present an…
A new paper has just been published employing a new technique for reconstructing past temperatures (Kellerhals 2010). It uses Ammonium…
Consistent with widespread media reports of extreme heat and adverse impacts in various places, the latest results from ERA-Interim indicate…
Production of rice—the world’s most important crop for ensuring food security and addressing poverty—will be thwarted as temperatures increase in…
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…
Most of global warming goes into the ocean. Consequently, the amount of heat accumulating in the world’s oceans is a…
The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for both April and for the period…
WASHINGTON – Heat waves, storms, sea levels, glaciers, and wildlife migrations are just a few of the environmental indicators that…
April 2010 —
The Global Economy and Development program at Brookings today released a new report — “Climate Crisis, Credit Crisis:…
Global Highlights
* The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for March 2010 was the warmest on record at…
All the data you need to show that the world is warming
April 14, 2010: Posted by: Scott A. Mandia, Professor…
Global warming is continuing to cause enormous devastation on the worlds economies particularly in countries like India. India today, is…
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…
‘Water Views’: Perspectives on the Global Water Crisis
A global study commissioned by Molson Coors, conducted by GlobeScan and Circle of…
Connecting Voices Globally to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change, Poverty and Economic Recovery
Global Event
On March 25, State of the…
By Andrew Buncombe
A low-lying island in a sprawling mangrove delta which has been disputed by India and Bangladesh for almost…
Temperatures have risen steadily since the 1970s, Jim Hansen and fellow scientists conclude.
By Douglas Fischer
Daily Climate editor
Global warming has neither…
As the world warms, sea levels could easily rise three to six feet this century. But increases will vary widely…
Butterflies are emerging in spring over 10 days earlier than they did 65 years ago, a shift that has been…
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)…
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…
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…
PORT OF SPAIN, Mar 4, 2010 (Tierramérica) – Caribbean countries are considering options like desalination plants and cloud seeding 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…
International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of…
A review from the UK Met Office says it is becoming clearer that human activities are causing climate change.
It says…
