Eco-news archive

2010

• Sep-Oct
• More species slide to extinction
• 'Ten years' to solve nature crisis, UN meeting hears
• Solar surprise for climate issue
• Animal populations surge in Ugandan national parks
• Oceans divide over 1970s warming
• Gibbons of southeast Asia are the 'forgotten' apes
• Huge growth at largest wind farm
• Tibetan nomads struggle as grasslands disappear from the roof of the world


• Jul-Aug
• Frozen hope for endangered species
• Rice yields falling under global warming
• Everglades and Madagascar forests on UNESCO danger list
• Plankton decline across oceans as waters warm
• Spain overtakes US with world's biggest solar power station
• Businesses 'profit from investing in nature'


• May-Jun
• Coral: Lost at sea?
• Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean'
• Study examines scientists' 'climate credibility'
• Sperm whale feces 'offset CO2 emissions'
• Global warming's impact on Asia's rivers overblown
• Oil spill creates huge undersea 'dead zones'
• Alaotra grebe confirmed extinct
• Polar bears face 'tipping point' due to climate change
• Uganda's highest ice cap splits on Mt Margherita
• Biodiversity: try as we might, things just keep dying
• Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe


• Mar-Apr
• Visible from space, deadly on Earth: the gas flares of Nigeria
• Quiet sun puts Europe on ice
• GM viruses offer hope of future where energy is unlimited
• 'World needs a barometer of life'
• Lovelock: 'We can't save the planet'
• Forest loss slows, as China plants and Brazil preserves
• Wind contributing to Arctic sea ice loss, study finds
• Humans driving extinction faster than species can evolve
• Climate change human link evidence 'stronger'


• Jan-Feb
• Vast iceberg 'may disrupt ocean currents'
• How the pet trade's greed is emptying south-east Asia's forests
• Orangutan survival and the shopping trolley
• Galapagos sea lions head for warm Peru waters
• Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers
• Is water vapor in the stratosphere slowing global warming?
• Last decade warmest ever: NASA
• Major Antarctic glacier is 'past its tipping point'
• Another reason to save coral? Reefs are responsible for ocean biodiversity

2009

• Nov-Dec
• Copenhagen chaos sets world on track for 3.5°C
• Ocean acidification rates pose disaster for marine life, major study shows
• This decade 'warmest on record'
• Major sea level rise likely as Antarctic ice melts
• This year 'in top five warmest'
• World's last bastion of stable ice now thawing
• Earth 'heading for 6C' of warming
• Greenland ice loss 'accelerating'
• Amazon deforestation 'record low'
• Species' extinction threat grows

• Sep-Oct
• 'Freezer plan' bid to save coral
• Baffin Island reveals dramatic scale of Arctic climate change
• Arctic to be 'ice-free in summer'
• Madagascar biodiversity under threat as gangs run wild
• Decline of a tribe: and then there were five
• Himalayan sherpas bugged by the sight of house flies at 5,000m
• Climate pledges so far are nowhere near enough
• Warning over global oil 'decline'
• Green roofs save on carbon overheads
• The great drought: Disaster looms in East Africa
• Earthquakes weaken distant faults
• Four degrees of warming 'likely'
• 'Millions at risk' as deltas sink
• Warming Arctic 'halts migration'
• Arctic 'warmest in 2,000 years'
• Engineering Earth 'is feasible'

• Jul-Aug
• Axolotl verges on wild extinction
• 'Artificial trees' to cut carbon
• Launch for amphibian 'life raft'
• Global warming could change Earth's tilt
• Methane seeps from Arctic sea bed
• Antarctic glacier 'thinning fast'
• 'Many hurricanes' in modern times
• Warning: Oil supplies are running out fast
• Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming
• Arctic glacier to lose Manhattan-sized 'tongue'

• May-Jun
• Many sharks 'facing extinction'
• Largest wind farm comes on stream
• Ice sheet melt threat reassessed
• Key coral reefs 'could disappear'
• 'Safe' climate means 'no to coal'

• Mar-Apr
• New rare orangutan find in Borneo
• Ice bridge ruptures in Antarctic
• Climate changes Europe's borders – and the world's
• Carbon emissions creating acidic oceans not seen since dinosaurs
• Parts of Amazon close to tipping point

• Jan-Feb
• How to survive the coming century
• North Atlantic is world's 'climate superpower'
• Tree frogs help flag up biological hotspots
• Global warming is 'irreversible'
• Emperor penguins face extinction
• Climate shift 'killing US trees'
• US vows 'huge' marine protection
• New clues to mystery sea monster

2008

• Nov-Dec
• Swiss glaciers 'in full retreat'
• 70% deforestation cuts for Brazil
• Clue to break-up of ice shelves
• World's forests face climate-change crisis
• Slow progress on ocean protection


• Sep-Oct
• Arctic ice thickness 'plummets'
• Climate link to amphibian decline
• African chimps decline 'alarming'
• Nature loss 'dwarfs bank crisis'
• Mammals facing extinction threat
• Warming boosts strongest storms


• Jul-Aug
• World heading towards cooler 2008
• 'Lost world' of gorillas discovered in the Congo
• Primates 'face extinction crisis'
• 'Alarming' plight of coral reefs
• Extinction risk 'underestimated'


• May-Jun
• Arctic sea ice melt 'even faster'
• Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice
• Sharks swim closer to extinction
• Global biodiversity slumps 27% in 35 years
• World carbon dioxide levels highest for 650,000 years, says US report
• Rainforest seeds revive lost paradise


• Mar-Apr
• Forecast for big sea level rise
• Time runs out for islanders on global warming's front line
• Antarctic shelf 'hangs by thread'
• Glaciers suffer record shrinkage
• Climate change may spark conflict with Russia, EU told


• Jan-Feb
• Antarctic glaciers surge to ocean
• Shark species face extinction amid overfishing and appetite for fins
• Map shows toll on world's oceans
• The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
• Climate 'could devastate crops'
• Warning on rising Med Sea levels
• Destruction of rainforest accelerates despite outcry
• The environmental impact of India's Nano car

2007

• Nov-Dec
• A greener way to recover methane
• Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'
• 'Tropics expand' as world warms
• Energy needs 'to grow inexorably'
• Parrotfish to aid to reef repair


• Sep-Oct
• Third of primates 'under threat'
• Natural decline 'hurting lives'
• Climate threat to biodiversity
• Oceans are 'soaking up less CO2'
• 'Warm wind' hits Arctic climate
• Gore says prize must spur action
• Lovelock urges ocean climate fix
• Man causing climate change – poll
• Call to protect shark-filled sea
• Warming opens Northwest Passage
• Gorillas head race to extinction
• Starving whales point to depleted oceans
• US predicts polar bear meltdown


• Jul-Aug
• Vast ice island stuck in Arctic
• Missing DR Congo gorillas 'dead'
• Brazil Amazon destruction slows
• Ozone has 'strong climate effect'
• Humans 'affect global rainfall'
• Melting glaciers will dominate sea-level rise
• Climate change 'is ravaging Everest'


• May-Jun
• UN issues desertification warning
• Scarce water and population boom leads California to 'perfect drought'
• Desalination 'not the solution'
• Arctic spring's 'rapid advance'
• UN warning over global ice loss
• Great apes 'facing climate peril'
• Recent CO2 rises exceed worst-case scenarios
• Polar ocean 'soaking up less CO2'


• Mar-Apr
• China gas emissions 'may pass US'
• Kilimanjaro's ice set to linger
• Ethanol cars may not be healthier
• Climate change agreement reached
• Winter warmth breaks all records
• Global impact of Asia's pollution


• Jan-Feb
• Climate change: scientists warn it may be too late to save the ice caps
• Wind shifts devastate ocean life
• Mountain glacier could 'vanish'
• 'Doomsday' vault design unveiled
• Warming 'very likely' human-made
• Melting of glaciers 'speeds up'
• 2007 to be 'warmest on record'

2006

• Nov-Dec
• Huge Arctic ice break discovered
• Failure in Yangtze dolphin search
• Arctic sea ice 'faces rapid melt'
• Ebola virus threatens to wipe out gorilla population
• Rainforest gets protected status
• Carbon emissions show sharp rise
• Study hopeful for world's forests
• Carbon emissions rising faster than ever
• Global climate efforts 'woeful'
• 'Only 50 years left' for sea fish


• Sep-Oct
• DR Congo hippos 'face extinction'
• Planet enters 'ecological debt'
• Humans 'causing stronger storms'
• Methane bubbles climate trouble
• Deep ice tells long climate story


• Jul-Aug
• Melting ice dilutes northern seas
• Ozone hole stable, say scientists
• Map details global water stress
• 'More disasters' for warmer world
• Greenland ice cap may be melting at triple speed
• Sea-bed plan to store carbon
• Environmental 'crisis' in Lebanon
• Amazon rainforest 'could become a desert'
• Earth facing 'catastrophic' loss of species
• First half of 2006 warmest on record in U.S.
• Extinction fear for black rhino
• Clarion call to save amphibians
• A bright idea: How changing light bulbs helps beat global warming


• May-Jun
• Last chance for China's dolphin
• Glaciers are melting at their fastest rate for 5,000 years
• 'Warm' species invading Antarctic
• Backing for 'hockey stick' graph
• Southern California due major earthquake
• Work begins on Arctic seed vault
• Hope for future of giant panda
• Arctic dips as global waters rise
• Night flights much worse for global warming
• Portugal starts huge solar plant
• Deserts 'need better management'
• China slows spread of encroaching deserts
• Rainforests 'still at great risk'
• Global warming risk 'much higher'
• 'Above normal' hurricanes in 2006
• 'Extinct' frog comes back to life
• Himalayan forests quietly vanishing
• Fabled ice field 'set to vanish'
• Warming set to 'devastate' coral
• Plankton blooms linked to quakes
• 'Clear' human impact on climate
• More species slide to extinction


• Mar-Apr
• The great betrayal: Pro-hunting Japanese seize control of whaling commission
• Diversity of species faces 'catastrophe' from climate change
• Air trends 'amplifying' warming
• Melting glaciers in the Alps
• Glacial earthquakes rock Greenland ice sheet
• Humans fuel worst extinction since end of dinosaurs
• Warming seas cause stronger hurricanes
• Climate change 'irreversible' as Arctic sea ice fails to re-form
• Sharp rise in CO2 levels recorded
• Death of the world's rivers
• Carbon burial plan for North Sea
• Stopping the next extinction wave
• Antarctica losing ice to oceans
• PNG rainforest 'in grave danger'


• Jan-Feb
• Climate scientists issue dire warning
• Earth 'on fast track' to warming
• Greenland ice swells ocean rise
• Increased CO2 may cause plant life to raise rivers
• Marine life treasure trove found
• Pioneers look forward to solar future
• Seeking a cure for US oil addiction
• Scientists hail discovery of hundreds of new species in remote New Guinea
• New Orleans 'risks extinction'
• Curbing climate change 'unlikely'
• Sea level rise 'is accelerating'
• 2005 was warmest year on record: NASA
• Genes record orangutans' decline
• Warmer seas will wipe out plankton, source of ocean life
• World's biggest fish 'shrinking'
• Environment in crisis: 'We are past the point of no return'
• Plants revealed as methane source
• Booming nations 'threaten Earth'
• Climate change is killing off amphibians
• Extreme weather in Asia: The Big Freeze
• 'Critical danger' warning on fish

2005

• Nov-Dec
• Debate heats up over Earth's population
• World is at its hottest since prehistory, say scientists
• 2005 warmest ever year in north
• Extinction alert for 800 species
• Arctic orcas highly contaminated
• Greenland glacier races to ocean
• Ocean changes to cool Europe
• The giant earwig that could bring a country to a standstill
• Accelerated rise in sea levels blamed on global warming
• CO2 'highest for 650,000 years'
• UN urges protection for dolphins
• Millions face glacier catastrophe
• Climate change map reveals countries most under threat
• Deforestation slowing – UN
• Birds hit by climate, diet shift
• Japan's whaling fleet sets sail
• Smart directions for green ideas


• Sep-Oct
• Europe study shows climate risks
• Amazon 'stealth' logging revealed
• China crisis: threat to the global environment
• Ocean warming threatens Antarctic wildlife
• Analysis: Is nuclear power the answer?
• Amazon area threatened by drought
• London? Paris? New York? No, Vancouver is the best place in the world to live, says new survey
• Bobbing corks 'could give power'
• Arctic ice 'disappearing fast'
• Gas threat grows from Cameroon's lethal lakes
• Killer heatwave may have fueled global warming
• Hunting threat to big amphibians
• 'Warming link' to big hurricanes
• Global warming 'past the point of no return'