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Wednesday, September 2, 2026
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Arctic Meltdown Signals Long-Term Trend
Soaring temperatures have led to the collapse of several huge ice shelves in the Canadian Arctic over the past few weeks.
“Cancún’s White Sands Wouldn’t Exist Without Coral”
Coral reefs are in trouble, but they could buy some time with good management and protection, while we work to find ways to reduce the impacts of climate change, says Mexican scientist Roberto Iglesias-Prieto in this exclusive Tierramérica interview.CLIMATE CHANGE: Wetlands Loss Fuelling CO2 Feedback Loop
Wetlands are dangerous, scientists say, in the sense that they are ticking carbon bombs best left alone. To help stave off extreme climate change, existing wetlands should be enhanced and new wetlands created so they could capture more carbon.ENVIRONMENT: Cutting CO2 Could Save Dying Corals
The rapid decline of coral reefs around the world offers a potent warning that entire ecosystems can collapse due to human activities, although there is hope for reefs if immediate action is taken, coral experts agreed at the conclusion of a five-day international meeting Friday.
BIODIVERSITY: A Third of Corals Face Extinction
One third of reef-building corals already face extinction because of climate change, the first-ever global assessment has found.
ENVIRONMENT: Global Fish Catches Vastly Underestimated
Fisheries catches in tropical island nations may be as much as 17 times higher than officially reported, according to a new study released Tuesday.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Corals Collapsing in More Acid Oceans
Coral reefs need to be put on "life support" if they are to survive climate change, but their ultimate survival is dependant on major reductions in fossil fuel emissions, say experts.
ENVIRONMENT: Mexicans Protest Canadian Mining Company
Residents and activists from the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosí travelled to Toronto to tell the shareholders of a Canadian mining company that their investments are at risk because the billion-dollar Cerro San Pedro gold and silver mine is illegal and environmentally unsafe.
BIODIVERSITY: O Sponge, Your Names Are Many
The Breadcrumb sponge found on floats and rocks in most oceans has been "discovered" 56 times, the first dating to 1766. And 56 different scientists over the span of 250 years have had the satisfaction and pleasure of giving the lowly sponge 56 different names.CLIMATE CHANGE: 100-Percent Renewables Not a Pipe Dream
North America's abject failure to meet the challenge of climate change has been "un-American", environmentalist and scientist David Suzuki told delegates Tuesday at the World Wind Energy Conference, the first ever in the region.
Mexicans Protest Canadian Mining Company
Controversy about gold mining in Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico, shifted to a hotel in Toronto, Canada, venue of a shareholders meeting from the Metallica company, owner of the mine.ENVIRONMENT: Soaring Energy Costs May Force Low-CO2 Living
Climate change is a global problem but individuals and communities can take simple measures to cut their carbon emissions in half, experts said Thursday on World Environment Day.
ENERGY: Green Standards Proposed for Biofuel Production
The adoption of international standards for the sustainable production of biofuels emerged as a controversial approach at the recent United Nations conference on biodiversity here.BIODIVERSITY: How a Golden Opportunity Became a Zero-Sum Game
Self-interest and petty politicking largely paralysed efforts to solve the urgent problem of the widespread extinction of species, with few concrete achievements after nearly two weeks of 14-hour meetings at the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) in Bonn that concluded last Friday.
Green Standards Proposed for Biofuel Production
The world is beginning to debate the need for environmental rules to govern production of agriculture-based biofuels.BIODIVERSITY: Good Intentions Eclipse New Funding at U.N. Meet
The world community took some ever-so-careful steps towards slowing the biodiversity crisis at a major U.N. meeting in Bonn, while emphasising the need for urgency and action.BIODIVERSITY: The Dollars and Sense of Conservation
The global biodiversity crisis that threatens life on Earth is driven by economic policies that fail to value nature, a new report finds.BIODIVERSITY: GE Tree Dispute Exposes Biosafety Inequities
An intense North-South debate over genetically engineered trees has sidetracked delegates at a U.N. conference on biodiversity here: African nations want a global moratorium, while a few rich countries led by Canada say it should be up to individual countries to regulate.
ENVIRONMENT: Climate Change Casts Marine Science Adrift
Climate change is altering the world's oceans in so many ways scientists cannot keep pace, and as a result there is no comprehensive vision of its present and future impacts, say experts.
Climate Change Casts Marine Science Adrift
Ocean science lags far behind atmospheric research, mostly due to lack of funding, warn researchers.BIODIVERSITY: The Twilight Age of Coral Reefs
Coral reefs will be the first global ecosystem to collapse in our lifetimes. The one-two punch of climate change that is warming ocean temperatures and increasing acidification is making the oceans uninhabitable for corals and other marine species, researchers said at a scientific symposium in Spain.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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