Seventh International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases (NCGG7) call for papers

A major international symposium on "Innovations for a Sustainable Future", 5-7...

May 14, 2013

Global Land Project major conference call for abstracts

The call for abstracts for the Land Transformations conference, Berlin 19-21...

Apr 30, 2013

Latest Global Change issue available online

The cover story in this issue explores the phenomenon of land grabs by taking a...

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FEATURES

Methane:
Not a damp squib, not yet a time bomb

A potent greenhouse gas, an energy source, a culinary delicacy for some microbes...

Zooming in over the northern latitudes

The Arctic is warming twice as quickly as the rest of the world, with significant consequences for northern Eurasia. Cat Downy discusses how the European Space Agency is working with researchers to combine remotely sensed, field and laboratory data in this hard-to-access region.

Earth-system science at a crossroads

The Planet Under Pressure conference underscored a rapidly changing landscape of Earth-system science. Mike Raupach says that the path ahead should combine the need for wider engagement with a continuing commitment to reason.

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MULTIMEDIA

Ticking time bombs in the human-earth system:

This Second Australian Earth System Outlook Conference, explored a small selection of globally...

Stockholm Seminar: 2000-year climate records

Thorsten Kiefer from IGBP's core project Past Global Changes (PAGES) discusses the 2000-year climate...

Berlin's Anthropocene Project kicks off with Will Steffen's keynote

The Anthropocene Project is an initiative of Berlin's House of World Cultures.

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October 31, 2012 Methane: Not a damp squib, not yet a time bomb A potent greenhouse gas, an energy source, a culinary delicacy for some microbes – methane is all of these and more. But is it also the harbinger of impending catastrophe? There’s no smoking gun, finds Ninad Bondre.
October 10, 2012 Zooming in over the northern latitudes The Arctic is warming twice as quickly as the rest of the world, with significant consequences for northern Eurasia. Cat Downy discusses how the European Space Agency is working with researchers to combine remotely sensed, field and laboratory data in this hard-to-access region.
October 10, 2012 Earth-system science at a crossroads The Planet Under Pressure conference underscored a rapidly changing landscape of Earth-system science. Mike Raupach says that the path ahead should combine the need for wider engagement with a continuing commitment to reason.
October 10, 2012 A Rio retrospective Media reports in Europe and North America were downbeat about the outcomes of Rio+20. But a more sober analysis points to some significant successes, not least for IGBP, reports Owen Gaffney.
October 10, 2012 Mapping a planet under pressure A new way of analysing complex global challenges – DebateGraph – has caught the attention of the White House, the UK Prime Minister’s Office and CNN. Here, DebateGraph co-creater David Price discusses how “collaborative argument visualisation” can help to support a planet under pressure.
October 10, 2012 A silver lining to Arctic clouds? The relentless increase in summer sea-ice melt is likely to amplify Arctic warming. But could the same conditions also spur the activity of marine microbiota, increase cloudiness and counteract the melting? Paty Matrai and Caroline Leck explore.
April 10, 2012 Building our Future Human infrastructure both contributes to and is affected by global change. The engineering and climate research communities must work together to respond and adapt to such changes, say Faisal Hossain and Julia Pongratz.
April 10, 2012 Risky Business A sequence of devastating earthquakes and a large number of weather-related catastrophes made 2011 the most expensive year ever for natural catastrophe losses for insurance companies. Owen Gaffney spoke to the world’s largest reinsurance company Munich Re’s Head of Geo Risks Research, Peter Höppe.
April 10, 2012 Addicted to resources Industrialisation is consuming natural resources at rates that are demonstrably unsustainable in the long term, points out Helmut Haberl.
April 10, 2012 The rise and rise of urban expansion New cities are sprouting up virtually every day as the world urbanises rapidly. But the projections for the coming decades vary widely. Michail Fragkias and Karen C Seto analyse the facts and discuss the implications.