Scientific American October 26, 2007 The World Is Not Enough for Humans Humanity’s environmental impact has reached an unprecedented scope, and it’s getting worse. Since 1987 annual emissions of carbon dioxide-the leading greenhouse gas warming the globe-have risen by a third, global fishing yields have declined by 10.6 million metric… Continue reading

The Age (Melbourne, Australia) November 14, 2007 Vital facts ‘deleted’ from UN report on climate change By Charles Clover, London A MAJOR United Nations report on climate change has been watered down as a result of influence from government officials from countries opposed to taking radical action, conservation group WWF… Continue reading

MASSIVE FOREST DIEBACK ALLEN, CRAIG D. U.S. Geological Survey, Jemez Mountains Field Station, Los Alamos, NM 87544 In coming decades, climate changes are expected to produce large shifts in vegetation distributions, largely due to mortality. However, most field studies and model-based assessments of vegetation responses to climate have focused on… Continue reading