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...
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...
Climate Change – Sequestration and Releasing Carbon Dioxide from the Ocean
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, report new information on the mechanism of carbon flow from the Earth's oceans at the end of...
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...
Climate Change Makes Major Snowstorms More Likely
Global warming is “loading the dice” to increase the frequency of record-setting snowstorms like those that have pounded the United States and Europe the...
Global Warming Evidence in a Single Graphic
A summary graphic of just some evidence for global warming is showed in this picture adapted from “The Guide to Global Warming Skepticism”.
This is...
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...
Americans Still Believe in Global Warming
According to a new survey by researchers at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, three out of four Americans believe that...
Climate balancing: sea-level rise vs. surface temperature change rates
Engineering our way out of global climate warming may not be as easy as simply reducing the incoming solar energy, according to a team...
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...