Wally's World -- Thirty-five years ago this week, Wallace Broecker predicted decades of dangerous climate change caused by humans. Unfortunately, he was all too prescient.
BRAD JOHNSON
On Aug.
Small fish said vital to seas; lower catches urged
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OSLO, July 21 (Reuters) - Small fish play a big role in the oceans and catches should be cut sharply to safeguard marine food chains from plankton to blue whales, an international team of experts said on Thursday.
Melting Arctic ice releasing banned toxins, warn scientists -- Unknown amount of trapped persistent organic pollutants poses threat to marine life and humans as temperatures rise
Damian Carrington
The warming of the Arctic is releasing a new wave of banned toxic chemicals that had been trapped in the ice and cold water, scientists have discovered.
UN official warns climate change could lead to conflicts over resources -- 'There can be little doubt today that climate change has potentially far-reaching implications for global stability and security,' he says
Climate change could result in "sudden and abrupt" shocks to countries around the world and have "far-reaching implications for global stability and security," a senior United Nations' official has warned.
Scripps Study Finds Plastic in Nine Percent of 'Garbage Patch' Fishes
SEAPLEX researchers estimate tens of thousands of tons of debris annually ingested by fish in middle ocean depths of North Pacific Ocean
Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San Diego
Global poverty rate falling, says UN
Mark Tran
Annual progress report on the millennium development goals shows the world is on track to end extreme poverty, but hunger target is proving more difficult to achieve
Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the race to cool the planet
John Vidal
Critics fear that manipulating weather patterns could have a calamitous effect on poorer countries
Report: Shipping emissions to rise in Arctic
Juliet Eilperin
Climate change in the Arctic is not likely to spark an immediate boom in oil and gas exploration, according to a new study published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
40 Mediterranean fish species imperilled
JOHN HEILPRIN
A new study suggests that more than 40 fish species in the Mediterranean could vanish in the next few years.
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Report: Shipping emissions to rise in Arctic
Juliet Eilperin
Climate change in the Arctic is not likely to spark an immediate boom in oil and gas exploration, according to a new study published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.