Why The Economy Needs Nature
One of the greatest misconceptions of our time is the idea that there is somehow a choice between economic development and sustaining nature.
Guyana On Low Carbon Development Path
Imagine Guyana and Dominica without forests and rivers, or Antigua, Barbados and St. Lucia without beaches.
Future Sea Level Rise from Melting Ice Sheets May Be Substantially Greater Estimated
Future sea level rise due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could be substantially larger than estimated in Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, according to new research from the University of Bristol.
Forests, Fruit and Fish Could Save Coastal Communities
Faced with the threat of a massive humanitarian and ecological crisis in the coming decades, the government of Bangladesh is no longer willing to remain silent.
Drought, icemelt, superstorms … a review of 2012’s environmental news
A look at the biggest moments of what was a tumultuous year for nature and green politics.
Why We Underestimate the Costs of Climate Change
The wastewater infrastructure of New York and New Jersey was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy, the systems failed. It is just one manifestation of a larger danger. Once we start to think about how climate change can undermine the basic structures we have built and upon which we rely, it becomes clear that virtually everything is at risk…
Research Underscores Vulnerability of Wildlife in Low-Lying Hawaiian Islands
If current climate change trends continue, rising sea levels may inundate low-lying islands across the globe, placing island biodiversity at risk. A new U.S.G.S scientific publication describes the first combined simulations of the effects of sea-level rise and wave action in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
The Land Of The Rising Coastline: Sweden
In contrast to worries from the Maldives to Manhattan of storm surges and higher ocean levels caused by climate change, the entire northern part of the Nordic region is rising and, as a result, the Baltic Sea is receding…
Climate talks: UN forum extends Kyoto Protocol to 2020
Almost 200 nations extended on Saturday a weakened U.N. plan for fighting global warming until 2020, averting a new setback to two decades of U.N. efforts that have failed to halt rising world greenhouse gas emissions.