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Feb 20, 2015
Future Earth executive director announced
Paul Shrivastava, a leading expert in sustainable enterprise based in Montreal, ...
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Feb 17, 2015
Long-time IGBP supporter, Lou Brown, has passed away
The IGBP community is mourning the passing of Lou Brown, retired Senior Staff As...
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Feb 16, 2015
Role of ice in the sea symposium: abstract deadline 28 February
The Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas (ESSAS) project will hold its 10th Annu...
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Thinking back to look ahead
Throughout history human societies have had to confront and adjust to climatic a...
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China’s emissions glimpsing the peak
China recently announced its intention to peak its carbon-dioxide emissions. How soon could the emissions peak and at what absolute value? Libo Wu explores.
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The greening of the Southern Hemisphere
The 2010-2011 La Niña weather event brought lush vegetation to vast semi-arid regions in the Southern Hemisphere and altered the delicate balance of the global carbon sinks. Owen Gaffney explores how La Niña might change in the future and what that might imply.
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Deltas at risk
Around 500 million people worldwide live on deltas, but many of the world's deltas are sinking due ...
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Climate change: the state of the science
A new data visualization released on the first day of the plenary negotiations at the UNFCCC’s clima...
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Climate Change:
the State of the Science
Videos now online from the Stockholm public forum to mark the launch of the IPCC's climate report, 2...
Global Change Magazine No. 78
The following feature articles from this issue
can be read on-line.
Anthropocene: an epoch of our making
Has human activity over the past two centuries pushed the Earth out of the Holocene and into the Anthropocene?
The rise and rise of urban expansion
Urban land area has expanded globally during the past few decades, a trend that looks set to continue in the foreseeable future.
Addicted to resources
Current levels of resource consumption are unsustainable in the long term.
Risky business
Economic losses due to natural catastrophes set a record high in 2011.
Building our future
A call for closer collaboration between engineers and climate researchers.
Here you can download articles to read them as Pdfs
Entire magazine 
(pdf, 11.3 MB)
Cover and contents (pdf, 11.3 MB)
Editorial (pdf, 328.2 kB)
News (pdf, 1.8 MB)
Anthropocene: an epoch of our making (pdf, 1.3 MB)
Has human activity over the past two centuries pushed the Earth out of the Holocene and into the Anthropocene?
The rise and rise of urban expansion (pdf, 3.6 MB)
Urban land area has expanded globally during the past few decades, a trend that looks set to continue in the foreseeable future.
Addicted to resources (pdf, 1.5 MB)
Current levels of resource consumption are unsustainable in the long term.
Risky business (pdf, 607.2 kB)
Economic losses due to natural catastrophes set a record high in 2011.
Building our future (pdf, 1.1 MB)
A call for closer collaboration between engineers and climate researchers.
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Apr 23 -
Apr 30, 2015
Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW)
The ASSW 2015 will include the final event of the 3rd International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP III)
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May 4 -
May 8, 2015
47th International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics Marine Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Prediction
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Global Change Magazine No. 83
This issue features a special section on carbon. You can read about peak greenhouse-gas emissions in China, the mitigation of black carbon emissions and the effect of the 2010-2011 La Niña event on gl...
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AfricanNESS Science Plan
A strategy for global environmental change research in Africa. Published 2008.
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INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE:
How green is my future?
UN panel foresees big growth in renewable energy, but policies will dictate just how big.
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UK:
'The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time?'
Royal Society, Philosphical Transactions A