The United Nations has called on more Asian leaders to agree to a plan to end deforestation by 2020 to slow down the destruction of plants and animals, a top official said on Friday. About 80 percent of the world’s known biodiversity could be found in forests, where about 1.6 billion people also depend for […]
The Astralian Federal Government is offering $500,000 for water providers in the Murray-Darling Basin to modernise their systems to cope with climate change.
But any water saved appears to be earmarked to improve the health of rivers and waterways.
Water Minister Senator Penny Wong has encouraged Riverina irrigation corporations to apply for the funds to prepare plans […]
Proponents say they replenish the ecosystem. Some scientists aren’t so sure.
It sounds like a great idea. Take a retired oil rig, Navy ship or fleet of subway cars that would otherwise add to our nation’s swelling heap of trash and drop it off the coast of just about anywhere. Plants and invertebrates will colonize the […]
The Federal Government is being asked to support a move for international recognition of climate change as a threat to world heritage sites.
An Australian legal and environment group has joined with a US group to urge the World Heritage Centre to adopt guidelines that take climate change into account in planning for the conservation of […]
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research has released a scientific assessment that provides the first comprehensive analysis of observed and projected changes in weather and climate extremes in North America and U.S. territories. Among the major findings reported in this assessment are that droughts, heavy downpours, excessive heat, […]
The climate changed from one year to the next at the end of the last ice age, says an international research group including scientists from Bern University.
Studying data from Greenland ice cores, the researchers said the information could prove groundbreaking for forecasting sudden changes to the climate in future.
The researchers - using a Swiss-developed system […]
Whales in the Southern Ocean face the twin threat of a shortage of food and a loss of hunting grounds because of global warming, a new report warns.The rise in temperature predicted over the next 40 years will lead to a drop in winter sea-ice coverage of Antarctic waters of up to 30 per cent […]
If you think the weather is getting more extreme, you’re right - and global warming caused by human activity probably is the reason, according to a report released Thursday by a panel of government scientists.The report comes as the Midwest copes with record rainfall and catastrophic flooding.
There is strong evidence the increasing frequency of extreme […]
An analysis of Greenland ice cores shows how atmospheric changes during the last ice age probably spurred wild temperature swings, a finding researchers said on Thursday could help predict future climate change.The northern hemisphere emerged from the last ice age 14,700 years ago with about a 12 degree Celsius (22 Fahrenheit) spike in just 50 […]
Britain and Europe will be forced to fundamentally rethink a central part of their environment strategy after a government report found that the rush to develop biofuels has played a “significant” role in the dramatic rise in global food prices, which has left 100 million more people without enough to eat.The Gallagher report, due to […]
