UK Independent
Mark Lynas
+2.4°: Coral reefs almost extinct
In North America, a new dust-bowl brings deserts to life in the high plains states, centred on Nebraska, but also wipes out agriculture and
cattle ranching as sand dunes appear across five US states, from Texas in the south to Montana in the north.
Rising sea levels accelerate as the Greenland ice sheet tips into irreversible melt, submerging atoll nations and low-lying deltas. In Peru, disappearing Andean glaciers mean 10 million people face water shortages.More...
Mark Lynas
U.K. Independent
February 3, 2007
Buried within the newly released IPCC report is an apocalyptic
warning: if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at current
rates, global warming by the end of the century could total 6.4C. The
scientists don't say so explicitly, but a rise in temperatures of
this magnitude would catapult the planet into an extreme greenhouse
state not seen for nearly 100 million years, when dinosaurs grazed on
polar rainforests and deserts reached into the heart of Europe. More...
AP Science Writer
By SETH BORENSTEIN
Fri Feb 2, 5:23 PM ET
PARIS - Global warming is so severe that it will "continue for centuries," leading to a far different planet in 100 years, warned a grim landmark report from the world's leading climate scientists and government officials. Yet, many of the experts are hopeful that nations will now take action to avoid the worst scenarios. More...
UNEP
30 January 2007
Mountain glaciers around the world
continue to melt, with new, still tentative figures for 2005 indicating a
further average thickness reduction for a set of reference glaciers of 0.6
metre water equivalent (w.e.). On average, one metre water equivalent
corresponds to 1.1 metre ice thickness. More...
The Observer UK
Sunday, January 21, 2007
A study by the world’s leading experts says global warming will happen faster and be more devastating than previously thought. More...More...
by Frank Zeller
Agence France Presse
January 15, 2007
HANOI (AFP) - Near-demented and with bloodshot eyes, a large Asiatic black bear is trapped inside a rusty cage barely larger than its hefty body in the dank backroom of a hotel near Hanoi. More...