On current form, she warns, the world is on track for warming of 6C by the end of the century – a level that would create catastrophe, wiping out agriculture in many areas and rendering swathes of the globe uninhabitable, as well as raising sea levels and causing mass migration, according to scientists.

A map of solar activity around the city of San Francisco.

Map of solar potential (and currently implemented solar installations) in New York.

Kor reusable and designed water bottle

Developed countries are "outsourcing" more than a third of their carbon emissions associated with products and services to other countries, researchers say.

A study of trade data found that some countries in Western Europe have more than half of their total carbon dioxide emissions occurring elsewhere, especially in developing countries such as China.

Scientists have discovered an area of the North Atlantic Ocean where plastic debris accumulates.

What international agreement produced 10 times the climate benefits of Kyoto and could produce several times more greenhouse gas reductions than any post-2012 climate agreement? The answer: the Montreal protocol, which Kofi Annan described as “perhaps the most successful international agreement to date”. Because a new climate agreement is unlikely to emerge in Copenhagen in December, it is time to look for possible interim alternative ideas in the Montreal protocol, which supporters call the best kept secret in the war against climate change.

Welcome to our new environment data store, a bank of information, facts and figures on today's most pressing environmental issues. We've partnered with organisations including the World Resources Institute to bring you the latest data on climate change, natural resources, conservation, consumption, green living and more.

The first alarms about the sudden widespread disappearance of honeybees came in late 2006, and the phenomenon soon had a name: colony collapse disorder. In the two years that followed, about one-third of bee colonies vanished, while researchers toiled to figure out what was causing the collapse. A study published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences surmises that there may not be a single pathogen involved but a collection of culprits. What have entomologists and beekeepers learned in the last few years of dealing with the crisis? We asked May R. Berenbaum, an author of the study, and other experts for an update.

For a period of 2 million years, ending with the last ice age around 10,000 B.C., the Earth experienced a series of convulsive glacial events. This rapid-fire climate change meant that humans couldn’t rely on consistent patterns to know which animals to hunt, which plants to gather, or even which predators might be waiting around the corner. How did we cope? By getting smarter. The neuro­physi­ol­ogist William Calvin argues persuasively that modern human cognition—including sophisticated language and the capacity to plan ahead—evolved in response to the demands of this long age of turbulence.

In veel landen leven mensen dit jaar milieubewuster dan in 2008. Dat blijkt uit de ‘Greendex’ van het Amerikaanse National Geographic. Ontwikkelingslanden blijven het veel beter doen dan rijke landen.

The world faces two urgent demands. First, the global economy is in crisis and needs to be turned around. Second, scientists tell us that time is running out on tackling climate change and we are putting our planet at risk. The conventional wisdom is that those two demands are competing. The conventional wisdom is wrong. The pivotal factor will be achieving a dramatic increase in society’s “carbon productivity”—the amount of economic output created per ton of greenhouse gas emissions sent into the atmosphere. The concept of carbon productivity follows a familiar logic: just as the productivity of labor and capital can be measured—by weighing the amount of output created per hour worked or dollar invested—the productivity of carbon use can be readily measured as well.

Hybrid cars and wind turbines need rare-earth minerals that come with their own hefty environmental price tag.

At last a book that comprehensively reveals the true facts about sustainable energy in a form that is both highly readable and entertaining.

Het Groene Hart is het grootste nationale landschap van Nederland. Het Groene Hart is een prachtig maar kwetsbaar gebied, midden in de drukke Randstad. Het is van groot belang om de kernkwaliteiten van het Groene Hart (landschappelijke diversiteit, openheid, rust en stilte, veenweidekarakter) te beschermen en te ontwikkelen, en ‘verrommeling’ tegen te gaan. De Kwaliteitsatlas Groene Hart biedt daarvoor houvast en inspiratie. De atlas geeft inzicht in de bestaande kaders en regelgeving (beleid). Daarnaast beschrijft de atlas de specifieke kwaliteiten van het landschap in de deelgebieden van het Groene Hart, en de opgaven per deelgebied (gebieden).

That’s why we need a climate bailout along with our economic bailout. Hal Harvey is the C.E.O. of a new $1 billion foundation, ClimateWorks, set up to accelerate the policy changes that can avoid climate catastrophe by taking climate policies from where they are working the best to the places where they are needed the most. “There are five policies that can help us win the energy-climate battle, and each has been proven somewhere,” Harvey explained. First...

Two years ago, a dozen of the country’s major corporations, including Caterpillar, Duke Energy, and Dow Chemical, banded together with several of the nation’s leading environmental groups to form a group called the United States Climate Action Partnership. According to the group’s Web site, USCAP’s mission is to encourage “the federal government to enact legislation requiring significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.” That’s a nice thought and by signing onto it USCAP’s members got a lot of nice press (including in The New Yorker). But a recent analysis of campaign giving by the non-profit group Clean Air Watch suggests that USCAP’s corporate members do not take USCAP’s goals terribly seriously. In fact, they seem to be devoting considerable resources to undermining them.

Wendy Barnaby was asked to write a book about water wars — then the facts got in the way of her story.

WattzOn gives you tools to track your energy consumption, compare it to others' and understand its consequences in order to discover how to reduce your role in climate change.

Americans haul 82 million tons of trash to recycling centers each year. But does it pay off—for the environment or the economy? PM has some real answers.

Council Special Report: Climate Change and National Security

Here's the biggest problem: no one yet has any idea what a climate-neutral city would look like or how it would operate. We can't build what we can't imagine, so one of the first orders of business is vision: visions of various ways in which cities could slash their emissions while increasing their prosperity and quality of life.

Video of Al Gore's speech on how the USA must change energy sources now: "Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years."

Apparaten voor thuis en op kantoor mogen vanaf 2010 niet meer dan 1 watt verbruiken als ze in sluimerstand staan. Vier jaar later moet deze stand van apparaten opnieuw gehalveerd zijn. De maatregel levert een fikse besparing van het energieverbruik op. Di

Breakthrough ideas are around the corner, says the Google co-founder. But most of us are failing to take a chance on them.

I just finished putting together the first three prototypes of the emissions sensing device I'm helping design for Engineers Without Borders. The idea is to sense CO, CO2, and particulate matter levels near indoor cook stoves so the stoves can be modified

'De CO2-uitstoot van de internetsector is bijna net zo groot als dat van al het vliegverkeer in de wereld.' Dat meldde onderzoeksbureau Gartner een tijdje terug. Details waren niet bekend dus gingen we zelf op nader onderzoek uit. Uit de openhartige gegev

In many places — the atolls of the Pacific, the shrimp beds of the Eastern Seaboard, the fiords of Norway — some of the most advanced forms of ocean life are struggling to survive while the most primitive are thriving and spreading. Fish, corals and m

Canadian photographer, famous for his 'environmental' photography.

Medewerkers van de natuurorganisatie World Land Trust en de University of Leeds hebben berekend dat het terugdringen van houtkap en extra bos bijplanten veel meer CO2-besparing oplevert dan bossen omzetten in energie-akkers.

A documentary produced and narrated by Leonardo di Caprio, telling us how mankind's darkest hour (our overexploitation of the planet) can be turned into its finest.

SustainLane.com is the largest community-powered directory of green products and businesses. SustainLane.com allows people to easily find and share reviews on anything from organic milk and fair trade chocolate to eco-friendly clothing and hybrid cars. At

Open-source knowledge base speeds discovery, research and networking with more than 110 best practice documents and a secure directory of participating government officials from over 450 cities, counties and US states.

"The 11th Hour picks up where An Inconvenient Truth left off by drawing the connections between seemingly disparate environmental and humanitarian issues (global warming, deforestation, poverty, globalization, etc.) and defining the space where the viewer

Investigative journalist Mark Schapiro discusses why companies that manufacture hazard-free products for the European Union often produce toxin-filled versions of the same items for America and developing countries.

Around 85 percent of all the buildings that will exist in New York City in 25 years are already standing. 80 percent of the city's greenhouse gas pollution is created by building energy use. So however advanced green building methods become, however energ

Het afval dat we lozen verdwijnt niet, er bestaat namelijk geen verdwijnen omdat de aarde een gesloten systeem is. Ons afval lijkt alleen onzichtbaar omdat we het verdunnen met water, bedekken met aarde of weg laten blazen door de wind. Maar uiteindelijk

GreenPrint software eliminates unwanted pages saving paper, ink, money, and millions of trees

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Touted by politicians and industry as "green" energy, biofuels come with a high price tag.

As we've noted before, there is a strong relationship between environmental crises and social instability. Similarly, developing world communities with healthy environments and sound practices (from farming sustainably to building greenbelts) often see fa

A call to action for all worldchanging people everywhere.

"I'm now completely obsessed with a brand new class of personal lifestyle gizmos - a class that is very much in sync with the emergent energy puritanism that I find myself unexpectedly interested in after An Inconvenient Truth. The class of objects is 'th

"Breathing Earth is a visual, real-time simulation of the CO2 emission rates, birth rates and death rates of every country in the world."