IPCC: In recent years, extreme weather and climate events have taken many lives and caused billions of dollars in economic…
The Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN), published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
Levels of the man-made greenhouse gas being dumped into the atmosphere have never been higher and are once again accelerating.…
UNITED NATIONS — The process used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to produce its periodic assessment reports has…
A new interactive Google Earth map showing the impacts of a 4 °C warmer world was launched today by the…
The Independent Climate Change Email Review is being conducted by an expert team, led by Sir Muir Russell KCB DL…
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency found no errors that would undermine the main conclusions in the 2007 report of the…
Most of global warming goes into the ocean. Consequently, the amount of heat accumulating in the world’s oceans is a…
All the data you need to show that the world is warming
April 14, 2010: Posted by: Scott A. Mandia, Professor…
By Richard Black, Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Bonn
The need for a new global climate deal is “greater than ever”,…
Government leaders, ministers and advisers gathered in London on Wednesday for the first meeting of a panel set up by…
Climate sceptics brush the scientific evidence under the carpet, says centre researchers.
A storm of criticism and climate scepticism is currently…
Connecting Voices Globally to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change, Poverty and Economic Recovery
Global Event
On March 25, State of the…
A new study has lowered the carbon pollution threshold or “tipping point” for collapse of the Greenland ice sheet to…
Temperatures have risen steadily since the 1970s, Jim Hansen and fellow scientists conclude.
By Douglas Fischer
Daily Climate editor
Global warming has neither…
ScienceDaily (Mar. 22, 2010) — Climate change and environmental degradation are likely to trigger increased migration in Sub-Saharan Africa with…
The climate change debate should be reframed in economic and security terms ahead of a year-end UN summit in Mexico…
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,…
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…
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…
Wave and tidal energy in England and Wales today received a boost as plans for the first full Strategic Environmental…
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…
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…
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.…
UNEP and Government of Indonesia Emphasize Role of Blue Carbon in Combating Climate Change
Indonesia’s Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries…
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…
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…
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary…
The U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer has resigned to join a consultancy group as an adviser, the U.N. climate…
January 31, 2010 marked the deadline for parties to the Copenhagen Accord to submit their respective plans for reducing greenhouse…
