Issues & Trends
| NOAA: Global Temps Push Last Month to Hottest March on Record The world’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made last month the warmest March on record, according to NOAA. Taken separately, average ocean temperatures were the warmest for any March and the global land surface was the fourth warmest for any March on record. |
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| EU Satellite To Check Climate Cange Impact On Ice BERLIN—The European Space Agency is launching a satellite that scientists hope will help them pin down the effects of global warming on the Earth's ice packs more precisely. |
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| In Clean Energy, U.S. Innovates But Builds Slowly If you follow the money, the numbers show that the U.S. is being outpaced by China and other countries in a global race to develop green-technology industries. |
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| Production Pipeline: Data From Satellites To Visualization Production Pipeline: Data From Satellites To Visualization is a link to a video animation showing why visualization is important and features segments on artic sea ice among others. |
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| Introducing The Local Renewables Web Portal The Local Renewables Portal has been developed for REN21 by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability. The web portal is organized as such: |
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Agricultural Apocalypse 2010
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| UC San Diego Energy Dashboard to Help Campus Curb Appetite for Power San Diego -- After an extensive period of testing, researchers have launched an Internet portal to showcase the real-time measurement and visualization of energy use on the University of California, San Diego campus. |
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| Forest Loss Slows, As China Plants And Brazil Preserves By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News
Amazon deforestation has slowed markedly, the FAO reports |
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| Losses From Natural Disasters Decline In 2009 In 2009, some 860 natural catastrophes occurred worldwide.1 Given the 750 disasters registered in 2008, this represented an increase of 15 percent.2 Last year had the fourth highest number of events in the period from 1980 to 2009.3 Some 92 percent of last year’s events were weather-related disasters (compared |
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| Big Food Push Urged To Avoid Global Hunger By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News
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