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 […]

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 “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 […]

Global warming already disrupts millions of lives daily in the forms of destructive weather patterns and loss of habitat. What is already happening is only the tip of the melting iceberg, for it is our children and grandchildren who may suffer most from the effects of global warming. Hundreds of millions of people may be […]

“The big picture is that global warming is putting hurricanes on steroids,” declared climate scientist Dr. Amanda Staudt of the National Wildlife Federation, one of the country’s largest conservation groups.
Windspeeds could increase 13 percent and rainfall could increase 31 percent, Staudt warned at the launch of her new report last week.
“As so many grapple with […]

Britain’s Prince Charles said that the widespread use of genetically modified crops would be the biggest environmental disaster of all time.
The 59-year-old heir to the British throne is well known for supporting organic farming, but his comments published in an interview with the Daily Telegraph were his most outspoken yet on GMO foods.
His views will […]

Global warming and limited access to land and other resources threaten many indigenous peoples, the UN food agency warned.
“Indigenous peoples are among the first to suffer from increasingly harsh and erratic weather conditions, and a generalised lack of empowerment to claim goods and services,” said indigenous peoples expert Regina Laub of the Food and Agriculture […]