Seagrasses can store as much carbon as forests
Seagrasses are a vital part of the solution to climate change and, per unit area, seagrass meadows can store up to twice as much...
The new ice age could start in the next millennium
Research shows that a new ice age could well have been upon us in the next millennium were it not for increases in CO2...
Brazil Outpaces All Other Countries in Reducing Global Warming Emissions
Brazil announced yesterday that it reduced tropical rainforest destruction to another record low level. The country’s National Institute for Space Research found that the...
The biodiversity crisis: Worse than climate change
Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world. The challenges of conserving the world’s species are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of...
Russian Boreal Forests Could Increase Global Warming
Russia's boreal forest – the largest continuous expanse of forest in the world, found in the country's cold northern regions – is undergoing an...
Atmospheric warming altering ocean salinity and the water cycle
A clear change in salinity has been detected in the world's oceans, signaling shifts and acceleration in the global rainfall and evaporation cycle tied...
From pollution to solution
A low cost catalysts transform carbon dioxide gas into valuable building blocks for organic synthesis
Chemists are helping to reduce heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, which...
Low carbon future for cities
Investing 2% of a modern city’s GDP in low carbon and energy efficient opportunities for ten years would reduce that city’s carbon emission levels...
Toyota City Low-Carbon Verification Project Begins
Toyota City , Japan, August, 2010—Toyota City and 19 private-sector enterprises (listed below) established the Toyota City Low-Carbon Society Verification Promotion Council (Chairman:...
Europe’s birds and climate change
For the past 20 years, the climate in Europe has been getting warmer.
Species of bird and butterfly which thrive in cool temperatures therefore need...