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LOSING THE WILDERNESS: A 10TH HAS GONE SINCE 1992 AND GONE FOR GOOD
According to the study, Australia has not suffered the worst of global wilderness loss... READ MORE›
TRUMP STICKING TO HIS COAL-FIRED GUNS ON CLIMATE CHANGE GALVANISES WORLD
These talks were about tightening the bolts on the Paris Agreement to drive momentum behind the global climate juggernaut... READ MORE›
GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC CO2 LEVELS HIT RECORD HIGH
The new report has raised alarm among scientists and prompted calls for nations to consider more drastic emissions reductions at the upcoming climate negotiations in Bonn... READ MORE›
CONCENTRATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN ATMOSPHERE HITS RECORD HIGH, U.N. SAYS
Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged at a record-breaking speed in 2016, the World Meteorological Organization said... READ MORE›
CONCENTRATION OF CO2 IN ATMOSPHERE HITS RECORD HIGH
The Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, the UN weather agency's annual flagship report, tracks the continent of dangerous gasses in atmosphere in the post-industrial era since 1750 ... READ MORE›
ENERGY FIRMS BACK INVESTMENT INTO DIESEL ENGINE
Another investment is into Solidia Technologies, a US-based cement and concrete production company that uses carbon dioxide instead of water in curing cement... READ MORE›
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BIOLOGISTS SAY HALF OF ALL SPECIES COULD BE EXTINCT BY END OF CENTURY
We want to build highways across the Serengeti to get more rare earth minerals for our cellphones... READ MORE›
HUMANS ON THE VERGE OF CAUSING EARTH'S FASTEST CLIMATE CHANGE IN 50M YEARS
A new study published in Nature Communications looks at changes in solar activity and carbon dioxide levels over the past 420 million years... READ MORE›
US SCIENTISTS FIND NEW WAY TO CONVERT CO2 TO GREEN FUEL
Unexpected discovery that produces ethanol could be a building block towards creating a low-carbon energy system... READ MORE›
'NEW ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE REALITY' AS EMISSIONS HIT SYMBOLIC THRESHOLD
Around two-thirds of the warming effect, known as radiative forcing, by long-lived greenhouse gases comes from carbon dioxide... READ MORE›
WE ARE WASTING THE BEAUTIFUL WORLD WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN
Restoring forests could also help, by locking up carbon dioxide that would otherwise escape into the air... READ MORE›
STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS NOW: THERE IS NO CO2 'TECHNOFIX', SCIENTISTS WARN
In a thought experiment they tried another option the future dramatic removal of huge volumes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere... READ MORE›
WORLD WILL NEED 'CARBON SUCKING' TECHNOLOGY BY 2030S, SCIENTISTS WARN
I don't think we can have confidence that anything else can do this, the Berlin-based chief executive told a London climate change conference... READ MORE›
SUPERMOON: WORLD'S SKYWATCHERS SEEK CLEAR SKIES FOR RARE SIGHT
Skygazers took to high-rise buildings, observatories and beaches to get a glimpse of the closest supermoon to Earth in almost seven decades, and snap dramatic pictures... READ MORE›
IN 2050 THERE WILL BE 9 BILLION PEOPLE ON EARTH. HOW TO FEED THEM
If the world's 75 million unwanted pregnancies were prevented, the global population would rise more gradually to 8.4 billion by 2050 and then fall... READ MORE›
AMAZON RAINFOREST LOSING CAPACITY TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE AS TREES DIE
For the first time in history, carbon dioxide absorption by the Amazon rainforest has been surpassed by fossil fuel emissions in Latin America, the study found... READ MORE›
GLOBAL POPULATION SET TO HIT 9.7 BILLION PEOPLE BY 2050 DESPITE FALL IN FERTILITY
Continued population growth until 2050 is almost inevitable, even if the decline of fertility accelerates, says the report, World Population Prospects the 2015 revision... READ MORE›
THE WORLD IS RACING TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE WITH TEMPERATURE GOALS BUT THE MATH DOESNT ADD UP
These scenarios often have the world removing net amounts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere after 2050, rather than putting more there... READ MORE›
UNDERGROUND MAGMA TRIGGERED EARTH'S WORST MASS EXTINCTION WITH GREENHOUSE GASES
But those rock dates presented science with a new puzzle why was the mass extinction event much shorter than the eruptions?... READ MORE›
THIS AMAZING MAP SHOWS WHERE MOST OF HUMANITY LIVES
Projects that by 2100 the world population will reach 11 billion, with nearly all of that growth occurring in Africa, writes Galka in his email to WorldViews... READ MORE›
ANTARCTIC CO2 HITS 400PPM FOR FIRST TIME IN 4 MILLION YEARS
That's why monitoring carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa, the South Pole and other locations around the world continues to be an important activity... READ MORE›
EL NINO CONTRIBUTES TO NEW HIGH IN CO2 LEVELS
The amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide CO2 in our world is likely to top 410 parts per million ppm this year... READ MORE›
AS APPETITE FOR ELECTRICITY SOARS, THE WORLD KEEPS TURNING TO COAL
Electricity and heat generation is the largest single source of carbon dioxide emissions globally... READ MORE›
CLIMATE URGENCY: WE'VE LOCKED IN MORE GLOBAL WARMING THAN PEOPLE REALIZE | DANA NUCCITELLI
Scientists are researching various technologies to accomplish this, but we've already put over 500 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere... READ MORE›
AMAZING NASA SIMULATION SHOWS A YEAR'S WORTH OF CARBON EMISSIONS SWIRLING ROUND THE WORLD
"Although this change is expected, we're seeing higher concentrations of carbon dioxide accumulate in the atmosphere each year... READ MORE›
RAINFORESTS ARE BEING DESTROYED BUT THE EARTH IS GETTING GREENER
Through photosynthesis, trees convert carbon dioxide into the food they need to grow, locking the carbon in their wood... READ MORE›
FOSSIL FUEL BURNING 'POSTPONING NEXT ICE AGE'
Sea levels rise and fall by more than 100 metres during global ice ages, and runaway global warming could add another 70m to that... READ MORE›
360 VIDEO: DISCOVER ONE OF THE CLEANEST CLEANROOMS IN EUROPE
According to the study, the world population will continue to grow at an average of 83 million people a year, despite an expected fall in fertility... READ MORE›
SEABED STUDY EXPANDS AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE TO PAST 50M YEARS
Climate change is happening, we are meddling with the climate system, Gallagher said... READ MORE›
EMPOWERING WOMEN MAY NOT SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT
The UK group Population Matters, for example, says it is responsible to have one or two children... READ MORE›
'NEXT YEAR OR THE YEAR AFTER, THE ARCTIC WILL BE FREE OF ICE'
Global warming is generally associated with increased fossil-fuel burning and consequent rises in levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide... READ MORE›
MORE THAN HALF OF UK'S FOOD SOURCED FROM ABROAD, STUDY FINDS
However, agricultural trade has implications for national food security and could displace environmental impacts from developed to developing countries... READ MORE›
"THE POOR AND THE EARTH ARE SHOUTING" SAYS THE POPE
Washington A draft of an environmental encyclical by Pope Francis says the bulk of global warming is caused by human activity... READ MORE›
HOLLANDE AND OBAMA STEP UP PRESSURE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AHEAD OF COP21
Speaking from the White House garden, a US National Park, he urged Americans to become engaged on the climate change issue... READ MORE›
ATMOSPHERE HITS GRIM MILESTONE AS CO2 LEVELS WILL NEVER GO BACK, SCIENTISTS SAY
In a study published in Nature Climate Change, scientists predict that carbon dioxide concentrations will no longer fall below 400 parts per million... READ MORE›
HOW CARBON EMISSIONS TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD
Scientists had previously measured the rising concentration of carbon dioxide for decades using ground-based sensors... READ MORE›