Economic Opportunities and Environmental Benefits Identified in the Intersection Between Energy and Water
Expert Panel Creates Blueprint for Future Action
UN chief Ban Ki-moon says the cost of natural disasters is soaring, creating a real economic threat
UN chief Ban Ki-moon yesterday warned that no country or city was immune from natural or man-made disasters, as a report underlined the soaring, trillion dollar, economic risks the world faces.
Global Warming Reduces Expected Yields of Harvests in Some Countries, Study Says
JUSTIN GILLIS
Global warming is already cutting substantially into potential crop yields in some countries — to such an extent that it may be a factor in the food price increases that have caused worldwide stress in recent years, researchers suggest in a new study.
Green
Arctic warming to boost rise of sea levels
Alister Doyle
OSLO — Global sea levels will rise faster than expected this century, partly because of quickening climate change in the Arctic and a thaw of Greenland’s ice, an international report said Tuesday.
Plan B Updates -- Water Shortages Threaten Food Future in the Arab Middle East*
Lester R. Brown
Long after the political uprisings in the Middle East have subsided, many underlying challenges that are not now in the news will remain. Prominent among these are rapid population growth, spreading water shortages, and ever growing food insecurity.
No big shifts to nation's energy supply by 2035, report says
Ariel Schwartz
Government says the U.S.
The End of Nuclear
Praise for Nuclear Report:
"a vital public service... uniquely independent, thorough, and timely assessment"
-Amory B. Lovins, Chairman, Rocky Mountain Institute
Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?
Anthony D. Barnosky, Nicholas Matzke, Susumu Tomiya, Guinevere O. U. Wogan, Brian Swartz, Tiago B. Quental, Charles Marshall, Jenny L. McGuire, Emily L. Lindsey, Kaitlin C. Maguire, Ben Mersey & Elizabeth A. Ferrer
Palaeontologists characterize mass extinctions as times when the Earth loses more than three-quarters of its species in a geologically short interval, as has happened only five times in the past 540 million years or so.
Drought In Amazon Could Lead To Accelerated Global Warming
IB Times
A new study reveals a drought last year in the Amazon basin caused the forest to lose significant levels of vegetation, which in turn could accelerate the pace of global warming.
Multitude of Species Face Climate Threat
CARL ZIMMER