20.08.2015 Most comprehensive projections for West Antarctica’s future revealed A new international study is the first to use a high-resolution, large-scale computer model to estimate [...]
19.08.2015 Substantial Glacier Ice Loss in Central Asia’s Largest Mountain Range Glaciers in Central Asia experience substantial losses in glacier mass and area. Along the Tien Shan, [...]
15.08.2015 Berkeley Earth Publishes Study on Air Pollution in China Berkeley Earth released today a study showing that air pollution kills an average of 4000 people [...]
14.08.2015 Greater risk of heart defects for babies born near unconventional gas wells in Colorado Pregnant women living within 16 km of unconventional gas wells in Colorado, US, are up to [...]
13.08.2015 WRI pans Australia’s climate target This Week the Australian government revealed its proposed emissions reduction target of 26 to 28 per [...]
06.08.2015 Europe’s seas: productive, but not healthy or clean The European Union’s Blue Growth agenda aims to harness further the potential of Europe’s oceans, seas [...]
13.07.2015 Rapid decline in bumblebee species caused by climate change, study finds In the most comprehensive analysis of climate change impacts on critical pollinators, researchers have found that [...]
08.07.2015 Record-breaking heavy rainfall events increased under global warming Heavy rainfall events setting ever new records have been increasing strikingly in the past thirty years. [...]
08.07.2015 Volcanic eruptions slow down climate change Although global concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have continuously increased over the past decade, [...]
05.07.2015 The current heat wave: a climate science perspective Currently, countries like the UK, France, the Netherlands and Germany are sweltering under a heat wave [...]
01.07.2015 Retreating sea ice could mean a colder Europe, researchers say International collaboration finds changes in the air-sea heat exchange. Diese Meldung teilen [...]
23.06.2015 Conservation successes overshadowed by more species declines – IUCN Red List update The IUCN Red List now includes 77,340 assessed species, of which 22,784 are threatened with extinction. [...]
05.06.2015 The European Red List of Birds is here We have a few theories why the famous Dodo went extinct by 1700 on the island of Mauritius. [...]
04.06.2015 Glacier changes at the top of the world – Over 70% of glacier volume in Everest region could be lost by 2100 If greenhouse-gas emissions continue to rise, glaciers in the Everest region of the Himalayas could experience [...]
04.06.2015 The EU Urban Agenda: Commission unveils results of public consultation The European Commission unveiled the results of the public consultation on the EU Urban Agenda during [...]
01.06.2015 ‘Dead zones’ found in Atlantic open waters A team of German and Canadian researchers have discovered areas with extremely low levels of oxygen [...]