Environment News Service (ENS)

25.03.2008 Reducing output of black carbon -- a particulate matter recently found to have an atmospheric warming effect three to four times greater than previous estimates -- "would have immediate societal benefits in addition to the long-term effect of reducing greenhouse gas emissions," say scientists.

22.02.2008 The emergence of deadly diseases has increased fourfold over the last 50 years as humans are increasingly moving into "shrinking pockets of biodiversity" where they come into contact with wild animals carrying fatal pathogens, say scientists.

19.02.2008 Project BudBurst allows regular people across the United States to partake in a national effort to track the effects of climate change by entering their observations of plants budding and flowers blooming in an online database.