If farmers think they have a tough time producing enough rice, wheat and other grain crops, global warming is going to present a whole new world of challenges in the race to produce more food, scientists say.
You know when climate change is biting hard when instead of a vast expanse of snow the North Pole is a vast expanse of water. This year, for the first time, Arctic scientists are preparing for that possibility.
About 99 percent of the Chacaltaya glacier in Bolivia has disappeared since 1940, says World Bank engineer Walter Vergara, in his new report, "The Impacts of Climate Change in Latin America."
Climate change in Africa could leave 250 million more people short of water by 2020, spurring conflicts and threatening stability on the world's poorest continent, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner said on Tuesday.
In honor of Earth Day on April 22, The Nature Conservancy launched the Plant a Billion Trees campaign in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. One dollar plants one tree in this on-the-ground reforestation effort that will help to remove 10 million tons of CO2!
Warming conditions in recent decades have continued to raise concern about global climate change, which many weather and climate experts believe is related to gases released into the atmosphere by industrial and transportation processes.
Earth Day – April 22 – is unique. It's a time to honor, assess, reflect on, embrace, pay homage to, and celebrate our home in the universe. At 38-years-old, Earth Day is no passing fad. In fact, it's the only event celebrated simultaneously around the
To all who care about the future of our children and the integrity of our planet Earth:
Please sign the following letter to the UN Secretary General, add your comment for a personal touch, and return to Anthony Marr at Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org for p
Westinghouse Electric, a unit of the Japanese Toshiba Corp., said Tuesday it had struck a deal with Georgia Power to build two nuclear power plants in the southern United States, the first such projects in 30 years....
Warming trends in a third of the world's large ocean regions are two to four times greater than previously reported averages, increasing the risk to marine life and fisheries, a U.N.-backed environmental study said.
World-wide panic is expected in pubs throughout the world as a decline in the production of malting barley in Australia and New Zealand hits breweries. "It will mean there will be pubs without beer," climate-watching brainiac Jim Salinger told the..
Rainforest peoples from 11 nations have formed a coalition to demand a greater say in future climate negotiations. Meeting in Manaus, Brazil, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, representatives of forest communities from Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica...
One of the world’s leading climate scientists warns today that the EU and its international partners must urgently rethink targets for cutting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because of fears they have grossly underestimated the scale of the problem.
If any country can claim to be pitched on the global warming front line,it may be the North Atlantic island nation of Iceland.On a purely physical level,this land of icecaps and volcanoes and home to 300,000 people is undergoing a rapid transformation as>
The World Bank says it will help finance a $US4.2billion coal-fired power plant in India, despite environmentalists' calls for the decision to be delayed until more analysis on costs and impacts is carried out.
