My favorite website - www.mongabay.com - has a terrific interview with Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo, an ecologist at Stanford University, on defaunation (the full interview is available here).  Defaunation is the removal of species from an ecosystem through different processes, including hunting, deforestation, wildlife trade, invasive species, and extinction (both local and global) through forest fragmentation [...]

A major meta-analysis study published in the May 15 edition of Nature that combined nearly 30,000 data sets on biological and physical changes around the world collected for at least 20 years between 1970 to 2004 with a detailed database of global temperature change found, not surprisingly, that the biological changes were strongly correlated with [...]

This article has some great images showing 20 of the world’s travel destinations that are threatened by climate change. These images not only help to visualize where climate change will cause damages, it highlights the fact that the entire world will be impacted.
And it’s important to note that many of those places, though they are [...]

The recent disaster in Myanmar has highlighted how some countries are much more susceptible to the impacts of severe weather events than others. Notably, there is some indication that destruction of coastal mangrove habitat may have contributed to the loss of life and property.
From Greenwire (subscription only)
Surin Pitsuwan, the Association of South-East Asian Nations [...]

Well, as it turns out, the Nerdy Climate Guys learned today that the State Department issued an internal departmental notice that it is raising prices for food within its cafeteria.  Is this because of the global food price increases?  If so, someone should mention this to the Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs, which [...]

The mission of C2Si focuses on both conservation and adapting to climate change because these two issues are inextricably linked both scientifically and in terms of humanity’s response. A new article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences highlights just how important this connection is.
Curtis Deutsch, of UCLA, and his colleagues have looked [...]

Following on the earlier post regarding rising food prices as a result of climate change, the Washington Post has a good article detailing the myriad challenges farmers and planners will face to adapt their agricultural practices, food production systems, and food distribution issues in response to a changing climate.
In a warmer world beset by greater [...]