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19/5/2013
Humanity has a second chance to stop dangerous climate change. Temperature data from the last decade offers an unexpected opportunity to stay below the agreed international target of 2 °C of global warming.
A new analysis took ...
19/5/2013
When Californians passed AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, we committed to one of the most forward-thinking pieces of climate legislation in the country, with comprehensive strategies to reduce
carbon emissions from nearly all sectors of ...
19/5/2013
We love our
forests in California. After a century of rapidly losing them to farming and logging, we finally succeeded in virtually ending deforestation in California. We were driven by our interest in the natural beauty, the wildlife, the ...
18/5/2013
Efforts to thoroughly study the role that plants play in climate change mitigation are increasing. Most researchers focus on the promise of large, leafy
forest trees to help remove
carbon from the atmosphere; for example Lal (1998) in India, Chen ...
16/5/2013
Palm oil touches our lives every time we take a trip to the supermarket. Palm oil and its derivatives are used in a ubiquitous array of packaged foods, including ice cream, cookies, crackers, chocolate products, cereals, breakfast bars, cake ...
16/5/2013
Pardon my french, but Canada`s tar sands suck.
As a Canadian it blows my mind that we can have the second largest deposits of oil in the world, but our government remains billions in debt and one in seven Canadian children live in ...
16/5/2013
When the history of humanity’s struggle to combat climate change is written, few characters will play as prominent a role as Charles David Keeling. A geochemist, Keeling developed an accurate method of measuring CO2 in the atmosphere, and in 1958 ...
14/5/2013
Deforestation in the Amazon region could significantly reduce the amount of electricity produced from hydropower, says a new study.
Scientists say the rainforest is critical in generating the streams and rivers that ultimately turn ...
13/5/2013
The loss of tropical rain
forests is likely to reduce the energy output of hydroelectric projects in countries like Brazil that are investing billions of dollars to create power to support economic growth. That is the conclusion of a ...
13/5/2013
Since 1896, scientists have been trying to answer a deceptively simple question: What will happen to the temperature of the earth if the amount of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubles?
Some recent scientific papers have made a splash ...
12/5/2013
Indonesian palm oil giant Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) is continuing to reduce deforestation under its 2011
forest conservation policy despite ongoing
forest destruction by other palm oil producers in the sector, finds a new assessment by ...
12/5/2013
Climate change could lead to the widespread loss of common plants and animals around the world, according to a new study released Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
The study's authors looked at 50,000 common species. They ...
12/5/2013
A ban on the clearing of tropical
forests in Indonesia is on the verge of being extended in a historic deal that could protect some of the world's most threatened habitats.
Indonesia is home to about a third of the world's remaining ...
12/5/2013
Unless people dramatically cut the amount of
carbon dioxide they're putting into the air and water through industry, farming, landfills and fossil fuel consumption, Maine's largest manufacturing industry will be damaged in ways scientists can ...
10/5/2013
Brazil is at risk of scoring an economic own goal if it continues clearing Amazon
forest for herding and soya production, according to a new study that has potential implications for global food security.
In recent decades, the ...
9/5/2013
Prince Charles has attacked corporate lobbyists and climate change sceptics for turning the Earth into a "dying patient", making his most outspoken criticism yet of the world's failure to tackle global warming just when the heir to the throne is ...
9/5/2013
The Prince of Wales has criticised "corporate lobbyists" and climate change sceptics for turning the earth into a "dying patient", in his most outspoken attack yet on the world's failure to tackle global warming.
He attacked businesses ...
8/5/2013
German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week called for a redoubling of efforts to forge a new U.N. agreement on climate change by 2015.
Speaking Monday at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Merkel warned the representatives of 35 ...
7/5/2013
Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan has confirmed that the
forest moratorium based on Presidential Instruction No 10/2011 which will expire this May, to be extended but he still does not know when the new regulation to be issued."The
forest ...
5/5/2013
At least eleven social and environmental civil society groups and networks sent a joint letter to Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) on 24 April 2013, explaining the substantial social and conservation issues APP has failed to address adequately in its ...
5/5/2013
World governments, the public, and the UN now recognize that the human population number matters in achieving ecological sustainability for human communities.
For forty years, since the first United Nations environment meeting in ...
5/5/2013
It's difficult to imagine how a degree or two of warming will affect a location. Will it rain less? What will happen to the area's vegetation? New Berkeley Lab research offers a way to envision a warmer future. It maps how Earth's myriad ...
5/5/2013
Fracking separates fossil fuels from rock more than a mile underground. The drilling technique, a boon for the natural gas industry this past decade, also divides environmentalists. Greens, locally and globally, are losing sight of their common ...
4/5/2013
Climate change may increase the risk of extreme rainfall in the tropics and drought in the world's temperate zones, according to a new study led by NASA.
"These results in many ways are the worst of all possible worlds," said Peter ...
3/5/2013
Within hours of renowned climate scientists announcing a staggering milestone in
carbon dioxide emissions, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn rolled out the booster wagons for Big Coal and celebrated his state`s five-fold increase in record coal ...