Like people vacationing in the mountains to escape summer heat, plants are “climbing” to higher elevations to cope with global warming, a new study shows.Previous research has suggested that many plant and animal species have been shifting their ranges toward the Poles as the planet warms.
Now scientists have found evidence that plants have also been […]
Large amounts of ozone — around 50% more than predicted by the world’s state-of-the-art climate models — are being destroyed in the lower atmosphere over the tropical Atlantic Ocean. This startling discovery was made by a team of scientists from the UK’s National Centre for Atmospheric Science and Universities of York and Leeds. It has […]
The native plants unique to California are so vulnerable to global climate change that two-thirds of these “endemics” could suffer more than an 80 percent reduction in geographic range by the end of the century, according to a new University of California, Berkeley, study.Because endemic species - native species not found outside the state - […]
Global warming is likely to have a series of destabilizing effects around the world, causing humanitarian crises as well as surges in ethnic violence and illegal immigration, according to an assessment released Wednesday by U.S. intelligence agencies.Rising temperatures could weaken already fragile regimes around the world and create a new set of national security challenges […]
Global warming could destabilize “struggling and poor” countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council told Congress on Wednesday. Climate change “will aggravate existing problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions,” Thomas Fingar said. “All of […]
Two-thirds of California’s unique plants, some 2,300 species that grow nowhere else in the world, could be wiped out across much of their current geographic ranges by the end of the century because of rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns, according to a new study.The species that cannot migrate fast enough to higher altitudes or […]
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said here Tuesday that industrialized countries must take the lead in dealing with the threat of climate change. “Looking at global emissions from a per capita perspective, it is obvious that the richest countries must take the lead,” Annan told the first annual meeting of his new […]
The continued deforestation of the forest cover is exposing the African continent to the most “brutal and devastating climate changes” in the world, the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) has said.”Africa is the continent most affected by climate change. The rate of deforestation is the highest compared to those of other continents,” ITTO Director Emmanuel […]
“We’re toast” is how a top NASA scientist describes the dire condition he predicts if the world doesn’t get on a “very different path” regarding global warming.Exactly 20 years after warning America about the phenomenon, James Hansen says the situation is so bad the world’s only hope is drastic action.
Hansen has told a U.S. congressional […]
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said on Monday that the upcoming Group of Eight summit needs to agree on some goal on climate change, even if it is impossible to reach an emissions target.Mr Fukuda has conceded the July 7-9 summit of the G8 rich nations - Britain, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, Russia and […]
