What Land Will Be Underwater in 20 Years? Figuring It Out Could Be Lucrative
In Charleston, S.C., where the ports have been expanding to accommodate larger ships sailing through the newly widened Panama Canal, a...
Trophy Hunting May Drive Extinctions, Due to Climate Change
Trophy hunters, as well as poachers who “harvest” the big males—antelopes and deer with the largest horns and antlers, elephants with the...
One arm of the Trump administration thinks climate change is a security threat
UNTIL America gets a grand military parade, a drive along the wharf at Naval Station Norfolk, in Virginia, is the next-best thing....
What Canola Can Tell Us About Crops And Climate Change
Hot summers can devastate canola farmers. Prolonged heat waves can leave behind fields of fallen, shattered oilseed pods and destroy vast...
Need to explain to people what climate change means in daily life: UN environ chief
United Nations environment chief Erik Solheim has said spouting "doom and gloom" while talking about climate change will not work and...
These flood-proof towers could withstand rising sea levels in New York
According to climate change reports, New York City's sea level will rise about 11 to 30 inches by 2050. Unfortunately, many of the...
The day the mountain fell: Sierra Leone's mudslide
I first became aware of the environmental crisis facing Freetown while living there in the summer of 2006. That year, the rains that...
Climate Change, Conflict Leave 224 Million Undernourished in Africa
An official with the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns that climate change and conflict are leading to food...
Britain and Europe must ban palm oil in biofuel to save forests, EU parliament told
If Britain and other European nations are to fulfil forest protection goals, they must ban the use of palm oil for biofuel and tighten...
Bill Gates is planning to strip CO2 from the air and turn it into clean fuel
Could the future of clean energy be to turn air into petrol? It may sound too good to be true, but Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and...