Environment on Earth

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 […]

The recent hot and muggy weather has us all thinking about how to take the temperature down a notch. With that in mind, we’ve culled the top ten ways consumers can cut into the 22 tons of carbon dioxide each of us produces in the United States. Take these small and not-so-small steps and you’ll […]

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 […]

Australia will launch a multi-million dollar international carbon capture and storage institute to fight global warming, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced.
Rudd said the plan would be the centrepiece of his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week, adding that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had already offered his support.
The institute […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

 
Global warming could trigger a dramatic decline in diversity of plant species on the rangelands in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau in southwest China, American and Chinese scientists warned, as research showed a 26 to 36 per cent drop in plant species from 1998 to 2001.
Experts said global warming specifically caused loss of 21 per cent of […]

Warming temperatures have already sent animals and plants inching toward the poles or climbing up mountains to seek out tolerable habitats.
But many species aren’t able to move far enough or will have difficulty fleeing in the future, researchers say. That’s because natural barriers such as mountains and deserts block some species, while others are trapped […]