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Study: The tropics are in trouble, warn scientists
This article discusses how global warming is affecting the Tropics.
Plants and animals in the tropics are threatened by a range of issues, warn researchers writing in the journal Nature.
The tropics are facing a mélange of well-documented human-driven threats: destruction of forests and marine ecosystems, overexploitation by the likes of […]
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Scientists Have Uncovered a Disturbing Climate Change Precedent
This article discusses how hot the earth became at the rise of mammals – 50 million years ago. During the rise of mammals, Earth’s temperatures spiked in a scary way that the planet may experience again soon.
They were strange days at the beginning of the age of mammals. […]
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How wildlife will keep cool in the face of rising temperatures
This article discusses how wildlife will keep cool in the face of rising temperatures, if they can.
Large numbers of species are at risk of global extinction from climate change. As a result, some governments are trying include wildlife in their plans for how to adapt the management of natural landscapes to a […]
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Study: Scientists Draw New Connections Between Climate Change And Warming Oceans
This article discusses a study about how climate change is affecting the planet’s oceans and the creatures that live in them.
It happened once before, and it could happen again.
That’s the warning from ocean scientists at the University of Toronto and the University of California, Santa Cruz in a […]
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Breeding Arctic shorebirds thwarted by Greenland’s stubborn spring snow
This article discusses how climate change is affecting birds in Greenland.
When the fog lifted on June 14, Jeroen Reneerkens’ small chartered plane could finally land on the tundra of northeast Greenland. The Dutch avian ecologist, who has a special passion for the small wading birds, especially the ubiquitous sanderlings, […]
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Study: Monarchs Use Milkweed as Preventive Medicine—but Climate Change May Wreck the Pharmacy
This article discusses how monarch Butterflies will be deleteriously affected by climate change. Rising CO2 levels could upset the delicate relationship between the butterflies and their parasites.
Most people know that monarch butterflies can’t exist without milkweed. As caterpillars, the monarchs feed on milkweed plants exclusively, absorbing the milkweed’s poisons […]
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Great Barrier Reef Imperiled as Heat Worsens Die-Offs, Experts Say
This article discusses Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and its impending demise from global warming.
Scientists have again sounded the alarm about Australia’s imperiled Great Barrier Reef, saying that by the 2030s it could see devastating mass bleachings as often as every two years […]
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Study: Arctic whales threatened as ships begin crossing melting sea ice
These two articles describe the peril that Arctic whales, especially narwhals, face because global warming is resulting in increased shipping in the Arctic ocean. The results were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
As shipping lanes open up in the Arctic due to vanishing sea […]
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Study: Climate Change Could Kill Off Bees
This article discusses the impact that global warming could have on bees. Climate change poses all sorts of potential challenges for Earth and those that call it home. But it could be especially troubling for bees.
A new study from Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden found that global […]
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Environmentalists sue for report on how Gulf drilling affects endangered species
This article discusses the fight to require Federal Agencies to provide accurate reports on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Three conservation groups said in a lawsuit filed Thursday that federal wildlife agencies have failed for years to complete required consultations and reporting on the effects that oil drilling in […]
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