Warmest April on record
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the past April was the warmest globally since record taking began in the late 19th Century. Combining both land and ocean…
Healthy coral reefs produce clouds and precipitation
Climate change threatens coral reefs and precipitation along coasts. Twenty years of research has led Dr. Graham Jones of Australia's Southern Cross University to discover a startling connection between coral…
Galapagos fur seals exploit warmer waters to establish colony off Peru
As suggested by their name, the Galapagos fur seals were once endemic to the Galapagos island chain off the coast of Ecuador. But in a warming world species are on…
James Inhofe is not a climatologist: a journalist’s perspective
As a child when I came down with pneumonia my parents did not rush me to see a policeman, a cattle rancher, or a local businessman. Instead they took me…
“No change whatsoever” in scientists’ conviction that climate change is occurring
Despite some politicians and TV personalities claiming that climate change is dead, a panel of influential US and European scientists held a press conference at the annual meeting of the…
NASA: 2009 second warmest year on record
According to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), last year was tied for the second warmest year on record after 2005, the warmest year on record. If just looking…
Current decade is the warmest on record
As 192 countries meet in Copenhagen to wrangle out a complex and at times sticky agreement to combat climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released new evidence that…
Sea levels set to rise as Arctic warming replaces millennia long natural cooling cycle
According to a new study published in Science the Arctic should be cooling, and in fact has been cooling for millennia. But beginning in 1900 Arctic summer temperatures began rising…
Record global ocean temperature in July
The world's ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for July, breaking the previous record set in 1998, reports NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. At 62.56°F (16.99°C), ocean temperatures…
NOAA offers “dramatic evidence” of Arctic warming
NOAA offers "dramatic evidence" of Arctic warming NOAA offers "dramatic evidence" of Arctic warming mongabay.com October 16, 2008
Earth already committed to 2.4-degree C rise from climate change
Earth already committed to 2.4-dgree C rise from climate change Earth already committed to 2.4-dgree C rise from climate change Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com September 15, 2008 Air pollution masking full…
Greenhouse gases made 2006 2nd-warmest year on record for U.S.
Greenhouse gases made 2006 2nd-warmest year on record for U.S. Greenhouse gases made 2006 2nd-warmest year on record for U.S. mongabay.com August 28, 2007 Greenhouse gases likely accounted for over…
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Forest Trackers
- In Brazil’s Pantanal, early flames signal a ‘new normal’
- Deforestation intensifies in northern Malaysia’s most important water catchment
- Authorities and Yobin communities clash as deforestation spikes in Indian national park
- Mennonite colony builds bridge, clears forest in Bolivian protected areas
Oceans
- As stronger storms hit Bangladesh farmers, banks are climate collateral damage
- In a hotter, drier climate, how serious is fire risk to island seabirds?
- Indonesia backtracks on plan criticized for ‘privatizing’ fisheries resources
- Love ‘em and loathe ‘em: Mediterranean grapples with tasty, voracious invasive crabs
Amazon Conservation
- Amazon deforestation on pace to roughly match last year’s rate of loss
- Brazil’s new deforestation data board sparks fear of censorship of forest loss, fires
- First-of-its-kind freshwater mangroves discovered in Brazil’s Amazon Delta
- Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves
Land rights and extractives
- As their land and water turns saline, Kenyan communities take on salt firms
- ‘The water is brown’: Community in Guyana rings the alarm over unsustainable mining near river
- Organized crime drives violence and deforestation in the Amazon, study shows
- Worries and whispers in Vietnam’s NGO community after activist’s sentencing
Endangered Environmentalists
- Worries and whispers in Vietnam’s NGO community after activist’s sentencing
- Scientists call for end to violence against Amazon communities, environmental defenders
- Indigenous advocates sense a legal landmark as a guardian’s killing heads to trial
- In Brazil, an Indigenous land defender’s unsolved killing is the deadly norm
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64
- A utopia of clean air and wet peat amid Sumatra’s forest fire ‘hell’
- From Flores to Papua: Meet 10 of Indonesia’s mangrove guardians
- Why I stand for my tribe’s forest: It gives us food, culture, and life (commentary)
Conservation Effectiveness
- Nepal was supposed to double its tiger population since 2010. It tripled it
- In prioritizing conservation, animal culture should be a factor, study says
- Young forests can help heal tropical aquatic ecosystems: Study
- How sharing and learning from failures can transform conservation (commentary)
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- In Laos, a ‘very dangerous dam’ threatens an ancient world heritage site
- Bali’s new highway project sparks concerns about agriculture and conservation areas
- Deforestation notches up along logging roads on PNG’s New Britain Island
- Plantations and roads strip away Papua’s forests. They’re just getting started
