Greenland acted as one of Earth’s biggest air conditioners. Since rising temperatures turned Greenland grey, dark snow attracts heat rather than repels it.
An online, interactive map, the Global Wetlands Map, was launched last month that invites researchers and other experts to help map the world’s wetlands.
In 2013, Matthew Hansen and his colleagues used satellite data to produce the first global, high-resolution maps of where trees are growing and disappearing
The Green Climate Fund, the world's largest climate fund, prefers to spend its roughly $10 billion dollar budget on adaptation and mitigation outcomes.
Leaders at 2016 World Water Week posed the crucial question of ‘how’? “Implementation, implementation, implementation – Just not necessarily in that order.” This was the response of Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of OECD, when asked at Stockholm’s World Water Week what three priority strategies the water sector should be focusing on this year. Stockholm — known […]
Today, we have more data about forests than ever before, but we still can’t seem to agree on where, when and why forests are changing around the world.
Mining activities, whether artisanal or industrial in scale, result in two types of environmental and social impacts: primary impacts and secondary impacts.
