GLOBAL WARMING COULD KILL OFF ‘GOOD BACTERIA’, EXPOSING AN ‘ACHILLES’ HEEL’ IN THE ECOSYSTEM...
Global warming could stop southern green stinkbugs from reaching sexual maturity by affecting the 'friendly bacteria' in their gut Didier Descouens via Wikipedia
Rising temperatures may be too much for bacteria that form a mutually beneficial relationship with many animals...
Read moreINVASIVE INSECTS CAUSE TENS OF BILLIONS IN DAMAGE: STUDY SAYS...
Damage in millions of dollars per year caused by the five most destructive invasive insect species.
PARIS - Invasive insects cause at least $77 billion (69 billion euros) in damage every year, according to a study released Tuesday that says this figure is "grossly underestimated" because it covers only a fraction of the globe...
Read morePOLL FINDS VAST GAPS IN US CLIMATE VIEWS...
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Washington - The American public is sharply divided on the issue of climate change, with liberals far more likely than conservatives to trust scientists on the science of global warming, a poll said on Tuesday...
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THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT IS ENTERING INTO FORCE. NOW COMES THE HARD PART...
The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to ratify the Paris climate accord, a move that will make the sweeping international agreement a legal reality long before even those who negotiated it expected...
Read moreONCE-SUPER TYPHOON CHABA KILLS AT LEAST 5 AFTER LASHING SOUTH KOREA, JAPAN...
Satellite image showing Chaba near the Ryukyu Islands.
Once-Super Typhoon Chaba lashed South Korea and Japan early this week...
Read moreTHOUSANDS OF AMERICANS HEAD INLAND TO ESCAPE HURRICANE MATTHEW...
Thousands of Americans headed for higher ground Wednesday as Hurricane Matthew barreled toward the Florida and South Carolina coast and the death toll from the monster storm climbed to at least 25...
Read moreCLIMATE: CATHOLIC GROUPS DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS...
Global warming is driven mainly by the burning of fossil fuels, which has raised average global surface temperatures by one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) over the last century and a half (AFP Photo/Money Sharma)
Paris (AFP) - Seven Catholic organizations on four continents announced in a joint communique Tuesday their divestment from fossil fuel companies in order to help curb the threat of global warming...
Read moreWHAT'S AT STAKE FOR THE CLIMATE IN THE 2016 ELECTION? EVERYTHING...
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The choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump holds U.S. climate policy, and the Paris agreement, in the balance...
Read moreWARM OCEAN 'BLOB' TRIGGERED WORST-EVER TOXIC ALGAE BLOOMS...
HOW THE EARTH WILL PAY US BACK FOR OUR CARBON EMISSIONS WITH … MORE CARBON EMISSIONS...
Add your reaction ShareSCENES FROM NEW ENGLAND’S DROUGHT: DRY WELLS, DEAD FISH AND AILING FARMS...
A dead shellfish in the dried-out bed of the Ipswich River, in Ipswich, Mass., Sept. 21, 2016. New England is struggling to cope with a dry spell that climatologists say is not expected to abate before the end of the year.
CENTER CONWAY, N.H — The Saco River flows lazily here, from New Hampshire into Maine, ridged with sandy banks and lush forests, luring eager families in canoes and rowdy flotillas of young adults...
Read moreEU GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO RATIFYING PARIS CLIMATE DEAL...
Polish environment minister Jan Szyszko (R), European climate commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete (C) and Luxembourg’s environment minister Carole Dieschbourg attend the environment summit in Brussels on 30 September. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
EU ministers are expected to ratify the agreement, along with India and Cananda, next week meaning enough countries will have signed up for the deal to come into legal force...
Read moreCAT 4 IN ATLANTIC, CAT 5 IN PACIFIC. DEADLY HURRICANE MATTHEW WREAKS HAVOC IN HAITI, MAY MAKE DIRECT HIT IN U.S.
Cat 4 Hurricane Matthew in the Caribbean. credit: NOAA
Hurricane Matthew sliced across the southwestern coast of Haiti, near Les Anglais, soon after sunrise on Monday. The eye of the powerful storm spun across the southwestern edge of one of the poorest nation in the Americas, and one of the world's most vulnerable countries to natural disasters...
Read moreUPDATED: US SAYS CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS GLACIER NAT'L PARK INSECTS...
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BILLINGS – U.S. wildlife officials proposed greater protections for two rare insects in Glacier National Park on Monday, saying warmer temperatures caused by climate change are drying up the mountain streams where they live...
Read moreTHE OLD SHELL GAME? SHELL’S RIO ROADSHOW: SPRINGBOARD FOR GREEN STARTUPS OR JUST A LOTT OF OILY SPIN?
Children play in Rio de Janeiro’s Santa Marta favela. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
Shell is not an obvious champion of sustainable business ideas but, beyond the glitz of an event staged in a Rio favela, and featuring pop stars like Pixie Lott, the oil firm has a chance to show it is serious about renewable energy investment...
Read moreSCIENTISTS STRUGGLE TO KEEP UP WITH MELTING ARCTIC...
Arctic temperatures are rising at twice the global average rate (Pic: Pixabay)
UN weather agency warns of rapid changes to the polar ice, at science ministerial summit in Washington DC...
Read moreWORLD'S THIRD LARGEST EMITTER INDIA FORMALLY JOINS PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE, UN SAYS...
Traffic moves as smoke emits from the chimney of a factory on the outskirts of Gauhati, India. AP: Anupam Nath
India, the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has formally joined the Paris agreement on tackling climate change, the United Nations said, taking the global pact a step closer to its enactment...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE; THE DEBATE WE NEED...
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In Monday’s debate, less than two minutes were spent discussing the biggest existential threat we face as a nation and globe: climate change. Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise, given that the Republican nominee doesn’t even believe it exists, even going so far as to call it a “hoax” created by the Chinese. If Donald Trump and the Republican Party won’t acknowledge climate change, then we must bring it to the forefront of the debate ourselves...
Read moreSCIENTISTS “TOO FRIGHTENED” TO TELL TRUTH ON CLIMATE IMPACTS...
Scientists "know" dangerous levels of climate change is happening, but they do not want to alarm people, says Wadhams. "It is bordering on the dishonest" (Pic: Pixabay)
Professor Peter Wadhams says peers are failing in their duty, and warns China is planning huge land grabs as warming hits crop production...
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