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Jul 3, 2014
Future Earth secretariat announced
The secretariat for the new ten-year research initiative Future Earth has been a...
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Jun 26, 2014
IGBP's second synthesis
Following IGBP's first landmark synthesis published in 2004 Global Change and th...
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Jun 25, 2014
IGBP Annual report now out
IGBP's latest annual report has just been published. The report highlights resea...
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Sustainable Development Goals Improving human and planetary wellbeing
Momentum is building towards the development of universally applicable sustainab...
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From clouds to carbon:
land-atmosphere interactions
in the spotlight
Understanding the interface between the land and the atmosphere has been an important component of IGBP’s research. Here we highlight three recent contributions that resulted from research sponsored by the Integrated Land Ecosystem–Atmosphere Processes Study (iLEAPS).
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Coastal megacities:
risks and opportunities
Every year, more and more people are flocking to live near the sea’s edge, often congregating in massive cities. Sophie Blackburn and Mark Pelling explore what happens when urban and coastal zones collide.
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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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Aug 4 -
Aug 9, 2014
IMBER ClimEco4 Summer School
IMBER focuses on the interactions and linkages between biogeochemical cycles and food webs, including humans, with the aim of improving the predictive capacity for marine ecosystems increasingly affected by global change. As the marine environment is very complex, particularly in the context of global change, indicators are often used to provide a practical and economical way to track the state of ecosystems. This fourth IMBER summer school, ClimEco4, will continue IMBER’s focus on fostering research at the interface of natural and human systems. It will be structured around lectures and activities that focus on indices of climate change, climate impacts, and ecosystem services, and how these are linked to indices for socio-economic and policy information in relation to climate-ecosystem interactions.
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Sep 24 -
Sep 26, 2014
Deltas in Times of Climate Change II
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Global Change Magazine No. 82
This issue features a full-spread infographic on deltas at risk, accompanied by a Q&A with IGBP Chair James Syvitski. You can also read about coastal megacities, the progress in crystallising the Sust...
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Global Change Magazine No. 81
This issue’s cover story puts 2000 years of regional temperature histories into perspective. Also featured: two full-spread maps visualising the PAGES 2k regional temperature records and ocean acidifi...
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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