| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
November 9 - Global warming is devastating coral reefs in the Caribbean, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of East Anglia, England and Simon Fraser University in Canada, and published in the journal Biology Letters.
The researchers compared the... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
November 5 - The Obama administration's report on the anticipated effects of global warming has been released, predicting widespread and devastating consequences if no action is taken to halt the emission of greenhouse gases.
If greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase at... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
October 2 - Nearly 90 percent of climate experts say that current efforts to reign in global warming will fail to prevent an average temperature rise of two degrees Celsius, according to a poll conducted by the British newspaper The Guardian.
The paper sent the survey to all... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
September 7 - An oil industry front group has been running ads falsely claiming that taxpayers would bear a heavy cost for measures to reign in runaway global warming, according to a press release from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The ads in question are funded by the American... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
August 29 - The only way to avoid catastrophic climate change is to stop burning coal entirely, leaving a full three-quarters of the planet's fossil fuel reserves untouched, according to two studies published in the journal Nature.
Scientists around the world have warned that... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
May 26 - People living in areas with more parks, trees and grass live longer and happier lives, with less violence and improved mental and physical health, according to research presented at the conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
May 10 - Prenatal exposure to air pollution appears to cause genetic changes that predispose unborn infants to asthma later in life, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the Center for Environmental Genetics a the University of Cincinnati and published in the... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
April 28 - A ten-week lawsuit is underway to determine whether a town in England led to a wave of birth deformities through negligence in handling a number of toxic dumps.
The plaintiffs in the case allege that the Corby Borough Council failed to properly handle toxic waste... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
April 27 - Increasing acidity of the oceans due to rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions pose a major threat to aquatic life, scientists are warning.
"I am very worried for ocean ecosystems which are currently productive and diverse," said Carol Turley of Plymouth Marine Laboratory... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
March 25 - A severe drought in northern China has left millions of people and animals without drinking water and dealt a major blow to the nation's grain crops.
Since October, lack of rainfall has affected more than 229 million acres of land in China's top six grain-producing... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
March 21 - The economic cost of global deforestation far outstrips the money being lost from the current financial crisis, according to the findings of a study commissioned by the European Union.
"It's not only greater but it's also continuous, it's been happening every year... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
March 17 - Free radicals produced during combustion may last much longer than previously thought, binding to other particles of air pollution and causing a variety of lung diseases including cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers from Louisiana State University and... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
March 16 - The heavy metals polluting the Arctic have primarily come from the burning of coal in North America and Western Europe, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nev., and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
March 9 - The number of "dead zones" in coastal regions around the world continues to rapidly increase, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the University of Gothenberg, and published in the journal Science.
"It's... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
March 3 - The acidification of the ocean due to the industrial emission of carbon dioxide is destroying the world's coral reefs, a coalition of marine experts has warned in the recently released Honolulu Declaration.
"Coral reefs are at the heart of our tropics, and millions... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
February 26 - Free radicals produced during combustion may last much longer than previously thought, binding to other particles of air pollution and causing a variety of lung diseases including cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers from Louisiana State University and... |
| By David Gutierrez, staff writer
February 11 - The nonprofit environmental law firm Earthjustice has sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to properly take into account the health and ecological risks of approved pesticides.
"There are several pesticides on the market that pose extreme risks... |
 | By David Gutierrez, staff writer
February 8 - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a strong warning that global warming will have "substantial human health impacts" within the next few decades. The warning came in a report released only days after the same agency declined to regulate global warming... |
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