NATURE: Biodiversity
Nature is delighted to present this biodiversity supplement for 2010, International Year of Biodiversity. As nations come together to reduce the alarming loss of species taking place worldwide, we hope...
View ArticleAfrica’s lake Tanganyika warming fast, life dying
Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500 Nature Geoscience, Published online: 16 May 2010 | doi:10.1038/ngeo865 Instrumental observations suggest that Lake...
View ArticleTurning the Tide on Falling Fish Stocks
Credit: The end of the Line New York, 17 May 2010-Investing around US$8 billion a year in rebuilding and greening the world’s fisheries could raise catches to 112 million tonnes annually while...
View ArticleRobust warming of the global upper ocean
Most of global warming goes into the ocean. Consequently, the amount of heat accumulating in the world’s oceans is a vital cog in our understanding of climate. A number of teams across the world have...
View ArticleClimate Change Will Affect the Asian Water Towers
Walter W. Immerzeel, Ludovicus P. H. van Beek, Marc F. P. Bierkens More than 1.4 billion people depend on water from the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Yangtze, and Yellow rivers. Upstream snow and ice...
View ArticleOcean changes may have dire impacts on people
The first comprehensive synthesis on the effects of climate change on the world’s oceans has found they are now changing at a rate not seen for several million years. In an article published today in...
View ArticleIndian Ocean Sea-Level Rise Threatens Coastal Areas
Credit: NASA Indian Ocean sea levels are rising unevenly and threatening residents in some densely populated coastal areas and islands, a new study concludes. The study, led by scientists at the...
View Article80% of tropical agricultural expansion between 1980-2000 came at expense of...
The study, based on analysis satellite images collected by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and led by Holly Gibbs of Stanford University, found that 55 percent of new...
View ArticleGlobal warming blamed for 40 per cent decline in the ocean’s phytoplankton
The microscopic plants that support all life in the oceans are dying off at a dramatic rate, according to a study that has documented for the first time a disturbing and unprecedented change at the...
View ArticleThreats to the world’s plants assessed
Habitat loss is the biggest hazard to plant biodiversity. More than 20% of the world’s 380,000 plant species are at risk of extinction, making plants more threatened than birds, according to the first...
View ArticleIs the End in Sight for The World’s Coral Reefs?
It is a difficult idea to fathom. But the science is clear: Unless we change the way we live, the Earth’s coral reefs will be utterly destroyed within our children’s lifetimes. by j.e.n. veron...
View ArticleScientists find ‘drastic’ weather-related Atlantic shifts
Scientists have found evidence of a “drastic” shift since the 1970s in north Atlantic Ocean currents that usually influence weather in the northern hemisphere, Swiss researchers said on Tuesday. The...
View ArticleGlobe’s coral reefs suffer second worst bleaching on record during 2010
Record warm ocean temperatures across much of Earth’s tropical oceans during the summer of 2010 created the second worst year globally for coral-killing bleaching episodes. The warm waters, fueled in...
View ArticlePalm oil plantations: Counting the carbon cost of peatland conversion
For the first 25 years after an oil-palm plantation is established in a peat-swamp forest, about 60 tonnes of carbon dioxide are released per hectare every year, according to recent research2. More...
View ArticleRecord stratospheric ozone loss in the arctic in spring of 2011
GENEVA 5 APRIL 2011 (WMO) — Depletion of the ozone layer- the shield that protects life on Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet rays – has reached an unprecedented level over the Arctic this spring...
View ArticleRussian Boreal Forests Undergoing Vegetation Change
Russia’s boreal forest — the largest continuous expanse of forest in the world, found in the country’s cold northern regions — is undergoing an accelerating large-scale shift in vegetation types as a...
View ArticleBees Under Bombardment
Declines in managed bee colonies date back to the mid 1960s in Europe but have accelerated since 1998, especially in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. In...
View ArticleACE CRC launches Southern Ocean Acidification Report Card
There is increasing concern among scientists that ocean acidification, the so-called “evil twin” of climate change, could affect the functioning of whole marine ecosystems, and in particular, polar...
View ArticleOcean warming detrimental to inshore fish species
Australian scientists have reported the first known detrimental impact of southern hemisphere ocean warming on a fish species. The findings of a study published today in Nature Climate Change indicate...
View ArticleProbing the Impact of Climate Change on Wildlife, Ecosystems
Credit: NASA/Jenny Mottar Soon observations from NASA’s Earth-observing satellites of our planet’s climate will be brought to bear on understanding how different species and ecosystems respond to...
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