Vast stretches of coastal India may just go under water if global warming goes unchecked.According to a report titled Blue Alert by Greenpeace, if present trends are any indication, there will be a five-degree increase in temperature over the next hundred years.
This will submerge large areas and displace around fifty million people in India alone. […]
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 […]
A new survey of New Yorkers finds that most are convinced global warming is happening now and more should be done by key leaders to help New York City deal with climate change. The survey is the first-ever study of New Yorkers’ opinions about global warming and was designed and funded by researchers at Columbia […]
A sophisticated new climate model simulation of long-term global warming suggests that even if greenhouse gas emissions are reduced, the planet will continue to get warmer for 100 to 200 years.The delay would be caused by a warming of the world’s oceans, which would increase biological productivity as well as limit the oceans’ ability to […]
Region especially vulnerable to natural disastersThe 2007-2008 Human Development Report published by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) examines the impact of climate change and warns that global warming could have a disastrous impact on many developing nations if world leaders do not take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions.
The effects of climate change will […]
Between 22 and 98 square kilometres of Thessaloniki’s bay in Greece are expected to sink in the coming decades, scientists announced.The area will be one of the first to suffer from the expected raise of Aegean Sea level, resulting from global warming processes.
This conclusion of academic researchers was announced yesterday in publications of the Greek […]
Climate researchers suggest that pythons could soon invade new parts of North America, due to global warming.
According to a report in Discovery News, researchers have based their theory on climate modeling for the year 2100, which predicts the likely places in North America where pythons might spread.
The invasion of the pythons was first detected in […]
Is Sen. Barack Obama’s climate policy about to collide with his electoral strategy?Watch Ohio. The bellwether state holds its primary March 4, and has become a crucial battleground after Sen. Obama’s Potomac sweep. It’s also quintessential coal country, and not likely to cotton to the Illinois senator’s increasingly strident calls for quick and drastic action […]
The day’s first word went to a tiny island nation with a big sinking feeling.Leading off the U.N. General Assembly’s second day of talks on climate change, Tuvalu issued a cry for help Tuesday on dealing with the impact of global warming on its 10,000 people, who live on nine low-lying coral atolls in the […]
London will adopt a bicycle hire scheme similar to a popular initiative in Paris under a $1 billion cycling investment package announced by the mayor on Monday.
Under the plan, part of a series of environmental measures due in coming days, 6,000 bicycles will be available for hire from ranks every 300 metres (600 feet) throughout […]
