IPCC Report: Climate Change Felt On All Continents And Across The Oceans
Climate change has already left its mark “on all continents and across the oceans”, damaging food crops, spreading disease, and melting glaciers, according to the leaked text of a blockbuster UN climate science report.
Ancient Clam Gardens Nurture Food Security
A three-year study of ancient clam gardens in the Pacific Northwest has led researchers to make a discovery that could benefit coastal communities’ food production.
Rising Seas And Borrowed Time on Disappearing Land
As the world’s top scientists meet in Yokohama, Japan, this week, at the top of the agenda is the prediction that global sea levels could rise as much as three feet by 2100. Higher seas and warmer weather will cause profound changes…
Community Conservation Efforts Credited For Increasing Olive Ridley Turtles Nesting, India
India’s eastern coastal state of Odisha each year hosts nearly half of the world’s and 90 percent of India’s nesting Olive Ridley turtles, categorised as “endangered.” The only other major mass nesting beaches in the world are in Pacific Mexico and Costa Rica.
Spain’s Oil Deposits And Fracking Sites Trigger Energy Gold Rush
Major offshore oil discoveries and prospects for shale gas extraction are generating excitement and resistance.
New UN Report Is Cautious On Making Climate Predictions
The draft of the latest report from the IPCC warns that the world faces serious risks from warming and that the poor are especially vulnerable. But it avoids the kinds of specific forecasts that have sparked controversy in the past.
A Honduran Paradise that Doesn’t Want to Anger the Sea Again
At the mouth of the Aguán river on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, a Garífuna community living in a natural paradise that was devastated 15 years ago by Hurricane Mitch has set an example of adaptation to climate change.
Earthquakes, hurricanes, cyclones and tsunamis: the world’s 10 riskiest cities
What are the world’s riskiest cities when it comes to natural disasters?
Despite Risks, Cuban Fisher Families Don’t Want to Leave the Sea
The old dilemma of leaving everything behind for safety reasons has reemerged with the new zoning regulations being implemented on Cuba’s 5,746 km of shoreline…