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The Clodius Parnassian butterfly is more common at the top of its elevation range in the California mountains than in the past. Climate change is making things rough for many vertebrate and invertebrate species. But add...

Give people a little winter weather and they cry out that global climate change is a myth. Well, unfortunately, that is not the case.

Average surface temperature predictions for the Indian sub-continent

According to Defenders of Wildlife, 2009 was a very bad year for the Florida panther, Puma concolor coryi. Nearly 20 percent of the Florida panther population was killed by vehicles last year. Years ago, these magnificent...

A sting from an unidentified mosquito has proven to be quite deadly for livestock in Pekanbaru, Indonesia.   According to Askardiya Ribudana Patrianov, head of Riau Province’s Department of Animal Husbandry and Animal...

Time is running out for one of the world’s most beautiful, charismatic and powerful species, the tiger.  According to conservationists, the wild tiger population has declined by 95 percent during the past century. ...

Some species are already on the move because of climate change, but a lot more is needed for species & ecosystems to survive. A new study by the California Academy of Scientists attempts to estimate how fast species and...

As CO2 levels increase in the atmosphere and in the seas around the world, the bodies of water become more acidic. It’s pretty clear that this is not beneficial to the ecosystems and the marine life that rely upon ecological...

Nearly 200 pilot whales stranded on two New Zealand beaches over the weekend.  The first incident invovled 63 pilot whales stranded on North Island.  Rescuers were able to coax 43 of the magnificent creatures back to sea.   Read...

When you’re a paleontologist seeking to solve an ancient mystery–in this case, the demise of Ice Age ‘megafauna’ like Woolly Mammoths and Giant Sloths–you sometimes have to get down and dirty...

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently teamed up with good50×70 to create a great collection of graphics depicting the climate change situation we are in today...

Earlier this month (Dec. 7, 2009), two Op-Ed columns appeared in the New York Times–one, by Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, supporting ‘cap and trade’ strategies for reducing carbon emissions, and...

To all of the people who had the goals and made the effort to bring positive change to the world in Copenhagen, here is one humungous thank you. Everybody who worked on addressing this critical issue of human-accelerated...

A new report published in the journal Global Change Biology shows that 45 species of the Galapagos Islands have become extinct or are facing extinction largely due to human activities...

An international team of scientists has determined that the Atlantic Ocean rose faster in the 20th century than at any time in the last 4,000 years, but not uniformly along the coast...