| Updated: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:17:57 -0400 |
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Sunday, 06 July 2008
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Global
warming could trigger a dramatic decline in diversity of plant species
on the rangelands in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau in southwest China,
American and Chinese scientists warned, as research showed a 26 to 36
per cent drop in plant species from 1998 to 2001.
Experts said global warming specifically caused loss of 21 per cent of medicinal plants and 25 per cent of pasture plants.
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Global warming is threatening at least a dozen of America's national
parks, including Gla...
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Faced with global warming, plants are heading for the hills. A study
of 171 forest specie...
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P. Dee Boersma, a biologist at the University of Washington, has been watching the Magella...
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The downturn witnessed by economies across the world has turned the spotlight on environme...
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World biodiversity has declined by almost one third in the past 35
years due mainly to ha...
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A new study suggesting a possible lull in manmade global warming has raised fears of a red...
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The once-green Sahara turned to desert over thousands of years rather
than in an abrupt s...
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Cleaner air due to reduced coal burning could help destroy the Amazon
this century, accor...
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 Much noise has been made about how water lubricates the base of Greenland's ice sheet, accelerating its slide into the oceans. In a rare "good news" announcement, climatologists now say the ice may not be in such a hurry to throw itself into the water after all. Mother Nature, it... |
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An important mechanism for sucking ozone and methane out of the
atmosphere has been discovered over the tropical Atlantic. The finding
reveals how the two greenhouse gasses are kept in check by natural
chemical reactions.
Researchers warn, however, that there is a risk ... |
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 Atlanta is thirsty, New York is sizzling, Des Moines is flooded - all these situations have happened this year, and a new federal government report predicts an increasing frequency of the same kinds of extremes across North America as the planet warms.
Droughts, heavy downpou... |
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A Russian parliamentary committee has warned that the Arctic ice cap may be gone by 2070, wiping out animal species and displacing the region's indigenous people.
The North Affairs Committee of Russia's Upper House of Parliament has prepared a report which outlines a bleak f... |
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 The distinct possibility that this summer -- for the first time in
recorded history -- the North pole could be free of sea ice, is now a
common subject of discussion among the world's climate experts. An increase in thin, young ice raises the possibilities that the
polar bear'... |
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