By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – African farmers said on Monday floods and droughts expected to worsen with climate change have already brought poor harvests, and women workers are turning to prostitution and falling victim to HIV/AIDS. Testifying at the first pan-African climate hearings, the farmers’ stories will be relayed at December’s climate talks […]
Science Leader Says Population and Global Warming Make the Job Hard By NED POTTER, Oct. 5, 2009 How serious is the world’s situation? Bad enough, says a leading Australian scientist, that the world will have to produce more food in the next 50 years than we have in the thousands of years since civilization began, […]
By Yereth Rosen ON BOARD COAST GUARD FLIGHT ABOVE BEAUFORT SEA, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Out in the Arctic Ocean, about 200 miles (322 km ) north of the nearest human settlement, the future of the world’s climate is written in the patterns of ice patches on the water’s surface. Old, “multiyear” ice — the […]
Rotting carcasses testify to the scale of the disaster looming in East Africa. By Daniel Howden, from Marsabit, Kenya On the plains of Marsabit the heat is so intense the bush seems to shiver. The leafless scrub, bleached white by the sun, looks like a forest of fake Christmas trees. Carcasses of cattle and camels […]
A freak tornado and floods last month may be a harbinger of a troubled future for Brazilian farmers, who worry that climate change could severely disrupt production in one of the world’s breadbaskets. Rising temperatures, a shift in seasons, and extreme weather in coming decades are likely to cut output in some areas and wipe […]
The recent observed collapse in the population cycles of small rodents, shown here for lemmings in northeast Greenland, as a result of diminished snow cover in the Arctic [from O. Gilg, B. Sittler, I. Hanski, Glob. Change Biol. 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01927.x (2009)]. Eric Post, et al., Ecological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate Change, Science, […]
By Craig McKune South Africa has even less water than previously thought, a study has found. Scientists have warned that the country, with 98 percent of its surface water allocated for use, faces tough decisions as it becomes hotter and drier. But the Water Resources of South Africa 2005 study, the fifth of its kind, […]
By Thin Lei Win BANGKOK (Reuters) – Developing countries will need to spend as much as $100 billion annually for the next 40 years to adapt to more extreme and severe weather changes, according to a World Bank study issued on Wednesday. The report said poorer countries would need to invest in large-scale infrastructure projects […]
By Gerard Wynn OXFORD, England (Reuters) – A rise of at least two meters in the world’s sea levels is now almost unstoppable, experts told a climate conference at Oxford University on Tuesday. “The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable,” […]
The free ecosystem service that has been buying us time may not last. Richard Betts, Mike Sanderson, Debbie Hemming, Mark New, Jason Lowe, Chris Jones, 4°C global warming: regional patterns and timing, 4 Degrees and Beyond Conference, [pdf], p. 9 Technorati Tags: carbon sequestration,carbon dioxide,global warming,climate change
