This week’s issue of Science is a special issue on forests. Here’s an overview of the many articles in it. Lance Science 13 June 2008: Vol. 320. no. 5882, p. 1435 Introduction to special issue The Future of Forests Andrew Sugden, Jesse Smith, Elizabeth Pennisi Forests have had a pervasive… Continue reading
U of Alaska news release: http://www.alaska.edu/ipy/press/stories/mernild.xml June 11, 2008 Freshwater runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet will more than double by the end of the century FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 11, 2008 The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than previously calculated according to a scientific paper by University of… Continue reading
A reviewer at Real Climate (briefly) pooh-poohed Six Degrees, the recent book by Mark Lynas, author of the op-ed below. Lynas emailed the reviewer with questions. The reviewer then read (or re-read?) Lynas’ book, and retracted the dismissal in a subsequent Real Climate posting, saying that Lynas’ Six Degrees is actually… Continue reading
Nature Laid Waste: The Destruction of Africa http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/11/9555/ ————————————————————————————- Continue reading