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Climate Change Report Includes Assessment by Arizona State University Professor

Arizona State University professor Nancy Grimm is one of the authors of a new and authoritative federal study assessing the current and anticipated domestic impacts of climate change

16 Jun 2009

Climate Change Impacts on Where Americans Live and Work

Climate change is visible and occurring throughout the U.S., but the choices we make now will determine the severity of its impacts in the future, according to a Texas Tech University climate scientist who served as a lead author on a report released today by the White House

16 Jun 2009

Climate Change Costs Could be Offset by Protecting Marine Resources

Protecting valuable marine resources could offset projected economic costs of climate change, according to a new WWF report issued today

8 Jun 2009

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Be Cut By Boosting Efforts to Conserve Forests and Other Ecosystems

Boosting investments in the conservation, rehabilitation and management of the Earth's forests, peatlands, soils and other key ecosystems could deliver significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and avoid even more being released to the atmosphere, a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says

4 Jun 2009

People From Around the World Unite to Combat Climate Change on World Environment Day

People around the world will unite for the planet on 5 June for World Environment Day 2009, with a strong call for environmental action just six months before the crucial United Nations climate change talks in Copenhagen

2 Jun 2009

One of America's Greenest Buildings Opens

An opening ceremony for what could be one of North America's greenest buildings — a flagship building on the cutting edge of sustainable design and energy efficiency — will take place at Washington University in St. Louis' new Living Learning Center at the university's Tyson Research Center

31 May 2009

NASA Able to Check on Ocean Health From Space

Ocean scientists can now remotely measure the amount of fluorescent red light emitted by ocean phytoplankton and assess how efficiently the microscopic plants are turning sunlight and nutrients into food through photosynthesis. They can also study how changes in the global environment alter these processes, which are at the center of the ocean food web

28 May 2009

Bayer Releases Sustainability Report

Maintaining sustainable and successful business during the global economic crisis: The newly published Sustainable Development Report 2008 contains information on the strategies pursued and programs implemented by the Bayer Group to achieve this goal

27 May 2009

Extreme Conservation Strategies Being Investigated Due to Rapid Climate Change

Scientists are, for the first time, objectively evaluating ways to help species adapt to rapid climate change and other environmental threats via strategies that were considered too radical for serious consideration as recently as five or 10 years ago. Among these radical strategies currently being considered is so-called "managed relocation."

25 May 2009

World's Largest Protected Marine Park One Step Closer As Coral Sea Becomes a Conservation Zone

What may become the world's largest marine protected area came a step closer today following the announcement by Australia’s environment minister Peter Garrett that the Coral Sea would become a Conservation Zone

19 May 2009