The Stories That Matter To The Environment
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Friday said it was investigating whether it had erroneously reported that over half of the Netherlands is below sea level. The glitch came after its earlier exaggeration of the thaw in the Himalayan glaciers.
“We are looking into it,” commented Brenda Abrar-Milani, a spokesperson for the IPCC’s [...]
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Members of Parliament warned in a report today that the European Union’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) has been unsuccessful in generating green investment following a slump in carbon prices.
The UK’s environmental audit committee is proposing that the government introduce a new carbon tax and other measures to help boost carbon prices from the current level [...]
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Climate experts of UN’s team on global warming have expressed their disappointment towards actions done by their colleagues, who belong to other disciplines, for an error included in the 2007 report about the melting of glaciers.
Experts who worked on a part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which is focused on global [...]
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A report came out on Friday, stating that the Arctic ice melt can inflict damages amounting to $2.4 trillion to $24 trillion by the year 2050 on real estate, agriculture and insurance. The factors that can trigger the damages include floods, heat waves and sea level rise.
Eban Goodstein, a resource economist at New York’s Bard [...]
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A conservation group confirmed Monday that less than 50 wild tigers are left in China.
Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) China programme Director Xie Yan said that tigers used to roam China 20 years ago. However, she informed reporters of a data gathered in 2000 showing the number of tigers left: 15 Bengal tigers in Tibet, 10 [...]
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