WNN Earth Watch (WNN/NOAA) Boulder, Colorado, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: The nation’s 28 National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERR) are experiencing the negative effects of human and climate-related stressors according to a new NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research report from the National Ocean Service. The national study, Climate Sensitivity of the National Estuarine Research […]
Jaspreet Kindra for IRIN – WNN Earth Watch (WNN/IRIN) Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTHERN AFRICA: In the absence of decisive action to significantly cut the emission of earth-warming greenhouse gases, most poor countries have resigned themselves to adapting to the effects of climate change. But as recent data show, the global concentration of carbon dioxide in […]
Selah Hennessy – WNN Earth Watch (WNN/VOA) London, U.K., WESTERN EUROPE: The world experienced unprecedented climate extremes during the first decade of this century, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization. Global bodies are gearing up to help nations cope with changing climate conditions. The report, published Wednesday, analyzed global and regional […]
Maria Lewytzkyj-Milligan with Veronica “Roni” Jacobi – WNN Earth Watch (WNN) Washington, D.C., UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: According to an April report from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, sixty-two percent of Americans now say they believe that global warming is happening and only 16 percent say it is not. Recently on June 5, 2013, U.S. Agriculture Secretary […]
Isaiah Esipisu for Thomson Reuters Foundation – WNN Earth Watch (WNN/Thomson Reuters Foundation) Nairobi, KENYA, EASTERN AFRICA: Women are due to get a bigger say in Kenya’s climate change policies after female parliamentarians representing its 47 counties joined a group that has been pushing for gender balance from the local up to the national level. […]
Kate Woodsome – WNN Breaking (WNN/VOA) Washington, D.C., UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Sometimes we get a better perspective by taking a step back. A new project by Google, the USGS – United States Geological Survey, NASA and TIME offers the distance we need to see our planet, and our species, like we’ve never seen them before. […]
Ann Kobia Makena – WNN Features (WNN) Nairobi, KENYA, AFRICA: Under a swiftly shifting landscape in rural Kenya, climate change and its impacts have drastically changed numerous lives in the African nation of Kenya, especially for rural Kenyan pastoralists who depend almost exclusively on rainfall and adequate water supplies. Water in local ecosystems has been shifting […]
Caroline Wambui – WNN Earth Watch (WNN/PSM) Nairobi, KENYA, AFRICA: The wrath of climate change affects both those who well understand what this phenomenon is and those who do not. During the Millennium summit in the year 2000, 189 countries signed the Millennium development goals (MDG) in New York. There was a growing understanding that poverty, […]
Lisa Anderson – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN/TL/AN) New York, NEW YORK, U.S.: Staring out of my apartment window in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning at an eerie green-tinged sky that buffeted my building with powerful wind gusts, unleashed barrages of driving rain and then suddenly glowed with a sickly sunshine, I saw and heard two things […]
Katy Migiro – WNN Improve It (WNN/TLW/AN) Nairobi, KENYA, AFRICA: Thousands of people in the Horn of Africa died needlessly last year because of the slow response to early warning signs, Oxfam and Save the Children say in a report. Some 13 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya went hungry last year, with 250,000 […]
