The Chilean government has sent a team of geologists to investigate the sudden disappearance of a glacial lake in the south of the country. raising a renewed debate over global warming. Experts say glacial melting in the wake of rising global temperature had swelled the lake which then drained the excess water and eventually dried […]
Ha Noi conference eyes impact of global warming on world’s oceans, coasts and islands.The Fourth Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts and Islands, which aims to find solutions to the potentially devastating effects of climate change on coastal ecosystems, officially opened in Ha Noi yesterday.
“The global conference brings together ocean leaders from around the world to […]
The Victorian Government has launched its Land and Biodiversity Green Paper, outlining a vision of how to revitalise the state’s land, water catchments, and agriculture.Environment Minster Gavin Jennings says the paper builds on the work of Victoria’s climate change summit, to encourage the community to take a role in protecting the environment.
But the spokeswoman for […]
A proposal to regulate water levels in the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario is the “best option at this time” to safeguard the environment while protecting commercial and residential interests, members of the International Joint Commission said Friday.The IJC, an independent U.S.-Canadian organization that regulates transboundary waters, said its plan balances all interests.
But even […]
We are often warned about the deterioration of our living environment caused by global warming or cross-border pollution and its effects on the habitats of animals and plantlife.Another reminder of this deterioration came with the news that a rare fish is threatened in Lake Biwa.
The fish, chaenogobius isaza, or isaza in Japanese, is a goby […]
Lake Tahoe’s ecosystem could be in danger of being altered by global warming, according to a study conducted by researchers at University of California, Davis.The Tahoe Environmental Research team sought to answer crucial questions about the lake’s temperature, algae concentration and clarity. Until now, the only measurement of Lake Tahoe’s status had been available to […]
Over two hundred million humans depend for their subsistence on the fact that coral has an addiction to ‘junk food’ - and orders its partners, the symbiotic algae, to make it.This curious arrangement is one of Nature’s most delicate and complex partnerships - a collaboration now facing grave threats from climate change.
The symbiosis between coral […]
Climate change is dulling the hearing of fish and making it more difficult for them to find a home, Australian researchers say.More carbon in the atmosphere means less calcium in the water and consequently poorer hearing in fish, who use hearing as much as sight to locate a habitat.
James Cook University researchers Monica Gagliano and […]
Global warming has already affected salmon in the Columbia River and other U.S. streams could face an uncertain future if global temperatures continue to warm.
The Independent Scientific Advisory Board said that by the year 2040, river temperatures are expected to increase by nearly two degrees overall.
Salmon in the Columbia River and other U.S. streams could […]
Jamaica and other regional countries stand to lose many valuable species of fish because of warmer temperatures in the Caribbean Sea, according to one leading climate-change specialist in the region.Kenrick Leslie, executive director of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre in Belmopan, Belize, is predicting that with a one-degree rise in sea temperature, the Caribbean’s […]
