Environment on Earth

The office is becoming a major driver of climate change.
Despite ongoing efforts to improve energy efficiency in the workplace, the world’s growing reliance on the Internet is leading to a rapid increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
The energy required to power all the world’s computers, data storage, and communications networks is expected to double by 2020, […]

Both Antarctica and the Arctic are getting less icy because of global warming, scientists said in a study that extends evidence of man-made climate change to every continent.
Detection of a human cause of warming at both ends of the earth also strengthens a need to understand ice sheets on Antarctica and Greenland that would raise world […]

Levels of a powerful greenhouse gas are four times as high as previously thought, according to new measurements released.New analytical techniques show that about 5,400 metric tons of nitrogen trifluoride are in the atmosphere, with amounts increasing by about 11 percent per year.
Ray Weiss of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and […]

Environmental damage such as desertification or flooding caused by climate change could force millions of peoples from their homes in the next few decades, experts said.
“All indicators show we are dealing with a major emerging global problem,” said Janos Bogardi, director of the U.N. University`s Institute on the Environment and Human Security in Bonn, Germany.
“Experts […]

Bird flu is just one of 11 diseases that may worsen with global warming, scientists are warning.
Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society have nicknamed 12 diseases the “deadly dozen” and say they are spreading across the globe and becoming increasingly dangerous to wildlife and humans.
William Karesh, of the WCS, told the International Union for the […]

Global carbon emissions rose rapidly in 2007, an annual study says, with developing nations such as China and India now producing more than half of mankind’s output of carbon dioxide, the main gas blamed for global warming.
The Global Carbon Project said in its report carbon dioxide emissions from mankind are growing about four times faster […]

The World Health Organization warned Asia Pacific countries that they could be vulnerable to health risks and food shortages as a result of climate change.
Climate change is among the topics being discussed in a regional WHO conference being held in Manila, and governments are being pushed to put health issues in their national climate change mitigation […]

The “greenhouse effect” often gets a bad rap because of its association with global warming, but the truth is we couldn’t live without it.
What Causes the Greenhouse Effect?
Life on earth depends on energy from the sun. About 30 percent of the sunlight that beams toward Earth is deflected by the outer atmosphere and scattered back […]

Forests in Vermont’s Green Mountains transition abruptly from a heat-loving mix of sugar maple, American beech, and yellow birch on the lower slopes to a cold-adapted mix of red spruce, balsam fir, and paper birch higher up.
A new study shows that the altitude of that transition zone rose as much as 400 feet between 1962 […]

The United Nations said that swathes of mountain ranges worldwide risk losing their glaciers by the end of the century if global warming continues at its projected rate.
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report that whilst nature has always observed a certain periodic rate of deglaciation, the current trends observed from the Arctic to […]