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A new report by the U.S. Center for Biological Diversity and UK-based Care for the Wild International (CWI) is bringing attention to seventeen equally endangered Arctic species.
Scientists...
According to Associated Press, 2010 is the hottest year at this point.
In specific terms, the planet’s average temperature for January – August was 14.7 degrees Celsius, with August...
Αn ecological disaster has been quietly unfolding elsewhere in Haiti.
The forests of Haiti's Massif de la Hotte region have more critically endangered species than anywhere else on earth.
The...
According to AFP, last June was the hottest ever recorded since 1880.
The combined average for global land and ocean temperatures was 16.2 degrees Celsius – 0.68 degrees more than the 20th...
Among the creatures most at risk from the incineration of oil at sea is the endangered ridley turtle, the smallest known sea turtles in the world and among the rarest.
Private boat captains...
On Friday, BP collected 6,077 barrels of oil, after a new containment cap was placed in the Gulf of Mexico and noted that the rate will increase in the coming days.
According to the U.S....
According to a global-scale study, climate change will wipe out 20% of the world's lizard species by 2080, according to a global-scale study.
Rising temperatures have already driven 12% of...
According to Associated Press, April 2010 was the hottest April ever recorded, with an average temperature of 14.5 degrees Celsius.
Data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
According to Guardian, a massive ice block broke from a glacier and crashed into a lake in the Peruvian Andes, unleashing a 23-metre tsunami and sending muddy torrents through nearby towns,...
According to the National Research Council, the chemistry of the oceans is changing due to the carbon dioxide absorbed from the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide and other industrial gases have an...
A "people's conference" on climate change agreed in Bolivia to call for the halving of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 at the next UN climate meeting in Mexico in December.
20,000...
Human beings are flushing millions of tonnes of solid waste into rivers and oceans every day, poisoning marine life and spreading diseases that kill millions of children annually, the U.N. said....
Millions of Egyptians could be forced to migrate as climate change makes their livelihoods untenable, warns a report published last month by Egypt's environment ministry. The report, compiled in...
According to AFP, a tiny island called New Moore has disappeared beneath the waves due to rising sea levels and erosion, scientists say. This island was 3,5 kilometres long and 3 kilometres...
According to CNN, two teams of explorers and scientists are on their way to the Arctic for the first international project to measure the amount of carbon dioxide in water beneath the ice. Three...
According to Australia's top science body, temperatures had risen about 0.7 degrees Celsius (0.44 Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years. Megan Clark, head of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial...
According to Reuters, large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas are bubbling up from a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia, raising fears of far bigger leaks that could stroke global warming,...
An oil spill has reached Italy's River Po after the suspected sabotage of a former refinery led to large amounts of oil pouring into a tributary. According to Italian news reports, the spill began...
A joint Australian - French study has discovered the calving of a large iceberg from the Mertz Glacier in the Australian Antarctic Territory. The iceberg - 78 kilometres...
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