Air quality in New Delhi has deteriorated significantly in the past two years, exposing the capital’s residents to heightened risk of a range of respiratory diseases, a leading environmental research group warns.
Shrinking ice means Greenland is rising fast
Greenland’s landmass is rising up to 4 centimeters per year. The accelerated rate of its rise is attributed to its shrinking ice dome.
Scientists Warn That Species Extinction Could Reduce Productivity of Plants on Earth by Half
An international team of scientists has published a new analysis showing that as plant species around the world go extinct, natural habitats become less productive and contain fewer total plants — a situation that could ultimately compromise important benefits that humans get from nature.
News: La Niña Persists
The tropical Pacific Ocean remains in the grips of a cool La Niña, as shown by new data.
Mitigating Climate Change with Geoengineering
As scientists debate whether human activity will lead to disastrous or catastrophic climate change, some discuss how geoengineering could mitigate the changes through global manipulation of the environment. Yikes!
Fires and Haze Fill The Skies In West Africa
Widespread agricultural burning in Senegal and Mali combined with blowing dust to create hazy skies.
Feds Want to Clean Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a stewy body of plastic and marine debris that floats an estimated 1,000 miles west of San Francisco, is a shape-shifting mass far too large, delicate and remote to ever be cleaned up, according to a researcher who recently returned from the area. But that might not stop the federal government from trying.
Scientists Track Time and Place of HIV's Arrival
Scientists track the evolution of HIV virus using genetic analysis. It’s an example of how advances in analysis techniques lead to better understanding of how desease spreads.
Green Schools Offer Healthier, Smarter Classrooms
In Plenty Magazine, Samantha Cleaver reports that “as baby boomer-era school buildings become more and more outdated, many districts are building green schools to replace energy guzzling, polluted learning environments.”
China's Birth Defects Soar Due to Pollution
Reuters reports that “Birth defects in Chinese infants have soared nearly 40 percent since 2001, a government report said, and officials linked the rise to China’s worsening environmental degradation.”