Climate Change

Slashing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions is a tricky balancing act: we will need to use all the tools available, while making sure we do not sacrifice other environmental interests along the way.

Tackling climate change would save at least a million lives a year, says the World Health Organization. Reducing the burning of fossil fuels is ...

Tropical coral reefs face high risks of becoming unsustainable if warming exceeds 1.5°C.

EU citizens consider climate change as one of the most important environmental issues, closely followed by air pollution, according to the results of a new Eurobarometer survey.

Rising CO₂ in lakes and reservoirs may harm animals that live in those ecosystems, reports Scientific American. 

Salmonid fish are sensitive to increased water temperatures. Decreased precipitation, forest fires and ocean acidification are other threats that come with climate change.

By absorbing CO₂ the ocean is becoming more acidic, and this is happening at a faster rate than during any other period in the past 300 million years.

The greenhouse effect, global warming, local pollution and implications for coral reefs described in a regional overview.

Greenhouse gas and nitrogen emissions from agriculture in the Nordic countries could be reduced by up to 80 per cent with a diet of purely organic produce from an almost self-sufficient food system.

After decades of talking and billions of euros in investments there are no large commercial CO₂ storage facilities in Norway, Canada, the US or anywhere else in the world.

At current projected levels of temperature increase it has been suggested that tropical coral reefs could be lost altogether as soon as 2050.

The agriculture sectors accounts for at least one-fifth of total emissions of greenhouse gases. A new FAO report discusses the challenge of reducing our greenhouse gas emissions while at the same time meeting the world’s demand for food.

Under measures already in place, land transport in the EU is expected to consume 43 Mtoe (million tonnes of oil equivalent) less energy per year in 2030 than it did in 2010, according to a study by CE Delft.

The fate of the vast boreal forest belt of the northern hemisphere is crucial for global climate. A new AirClim-report looks into our possibilities to protect and manage these forests for climate mitigation. Reducing paper consumption turns out to be an option.