Mexico's Senate unanimously approved landmark climate change legislation yesterday that sets the country on a pioneering path to drastically reduce its domestic greenhouse gas emissions. [More]
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Feed SubscriptionU.N. Climate Report Skips Over Curbing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the most interesting facets of a new United Nations climate change report is what's not in it: much mention of curbing the greenhouse gas emissions that trap heat in Earth's atmosphere and in turn can spur some natural disasters. "It is a change," said Christopher Field, a top editor of the 600-page document released on Wednesday. [More]
Read More »Is Human Impact Accelerating Out of Control?
LONDON -- The impact of human activity on the Earth is running out of control, and the amount of time in which action can be taken to prevent potentially catastrophic climate change is rapidly dwindling, a leading scientist from the Australian National University told a global scientific climate conference in London yesterday.
Read More »Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World
Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students.
Read More »Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World
Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students. This bracket features 16 student Commitments to Action that will be presented at the fifth annual meeting of the
Read More »Bracket This: March Madness To Save The World
Whether or not you filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets, you have a chance to fill out an even more important bracket for another competition of talented college students. This bracket features 16 student Commitments to Action that will be presented at the fifth annual meeting of the
Read More »U.S. Defense Department Develops Map of Future Climate Chaos
University of Texas researchers have developed a sophisticated new mapping tool showing where vulnerability to climate change and violent conflicts intersects throughout the African continent. [More]
Read More »Has Climate Change Really Made Thunderstorms More Powerful?
The extreme weather, including a near-record number of tornadoes , in 2011 forced the debate of the impact of climate change on severe weather to resurface. [More]
Read More »Climate and Food Pressures Require Rethink on Water: U.N.
By Gus Trompiz PARIS (Reuters) - The world's water supply is being strained by climate change and the growing food, energy and sanitary needs of a fast-growing population, according to a United Nations study that calls for a radical rethink of policies to manage competing claims. "Freshwater is not being used sustainably," UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova said in a statement. [More]
Read More »India Balks at Greenhouse Gas Emission Cuts
India appears to be pressing the reset button on its international climate change commitments. [More]
Read More »Accidentally ‘Introduced’ Species Threaten Antarctic Ecosystem
By Pauline Askin SYDNEY (REUTERS) - In the pristine frozen continent of Antarctica scientists fear an alien invasion -- not from outer space, but carried in people's pockets and bags. Seeds and plants accidentally brought to Antarctica by tourists and scientists may introduce alien plant species which could threaten the survival of native plants in the finely balanced ecosystem. Invasive alien plants are amongst the most significant conservation threat to Antarctica, especially as climate change warms the ice continent, said a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal published on Tuesday.
Read More »Oceans’ Acidic Shift May Be Fastest in 300 Million Years
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's oceans are turning acidic at what could be the fastest pace of any time in the past 300 million years, even more rapidly than during a monster emission of planet-warming carbon 56 million years ago, scientists said on Thursday. Looking back at that bygone warm period in Earth's history could offer help in forecasting the impact of human-spurred climate change, researchers said of a review of hundreds of studies of ancient climate records published in the journal Science. Quickly acidifying seawater eats away at coral reefs, which provide habitat for other animals and plants, and makes it harder for mussels and oysters to form protective shells.
Read More »Capital Well’s Next-Generation Solution
New Hampshire's Capital Well is facing a classic predicament; Its core product is rapidly becoming commoditized. It needs to innovate--fast. Here's how
Read More »Guest Post: Rick Santorum and Climate Change
How to Explain Climate Change to a Skeptic Rick Santorum has recently described climate change as a hoax a bunch of bogus science that tries to make nature s normal boom and bust cycle into something man-made. His comments illustrate how, despite the fact that the scientific community accepts climate change as truth, and despite the fact that the science is gaining greater acceptance among the general public, you may still run into people that just don t believe the theory of climate change. In my experience working for oil companies and environmental organizations alike, I have heard pretty much every argument for and against climate change
Read More »Farmers May Have Kicked Off Local Climate Change 3,500 Years Ago
Humans may have been causing climate change for much longer than we’ve been burning fossil fuels . In fact, the agrarian revolution may have started human-induced climate changes long before the industrial revolution began to sully the skies.
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