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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March 23, 2011 Tracking China’s urban emissions China’s vast cities are hungry for energy. Shobhakar Dhakal discusses emissions with Owen Gaffney.
January 1, 2011 UNsustainable? The United Nations has struggled to deliver on many environmental and developmental challenges. Time for new thinking, then, which is why UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has set up the Global Sustainability Panel. But how can science contribute? Owen Gaffney discusses the panel with Janos Pasztor.
October 31, 2010 Have we entered the "Anthropocene"? In 2000, Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen, IGBP Vice-chair at the time, and Eugene F. Stoermer proposed that humanity had driven the world into a new geological epoch. They named this epoch "the Anthropocene". The article below, which was published in IGBP's Global Change magazine (Newsletter 41) at the time, articulates the concept. In 2002, a related article was published in the journal Nature. In recent years, the concept has gained much attention within the scientific community and now more widely.
June 1, 2010 Reflections on Governance What is the best solution to tackling climate change? There is no panacea, and we have to experiment with multiple approaches, Elinor Ostrom tells Ninad Bondre.