MetaFilter posts tagged with ecology and globalwarming

A Changing Neighborhood

Kronos_to_Earth — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:14:49 -0800

Before and after sattellite photos (along with much more information) of the effects of climate change over the past 30 years are available through UNEP's (the United Nations Environment Programme) Atlas of Our Changing Environment (Via)

Cold War(ming)

Kronos_to_Earth — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:20:16 -0800

The thaw of political ice has freed up data from impressive Russian research projects documenting and analysing the accelerating thaw of real ice. A multi-generational study (Mikhail M. Kozhov, his daughter, her daughter...) of Lake Baikal has unexpectly demonstrated that the lake is warming....At higher latitudes, Sergei Zimov has not just documented the thaw of Siberian permafrost, he is attempting to mitigate it....

The future Amazon rain forest

stbalbach — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:27:23 -0800

The Green vs. the Brown Amazon. The future Amazon rain forest. This essay by John Terborgh starts as a book review (of a bad book), but soon turns it into a powerfully insightful overview of the current state of the Amazonian basin and its most probable future under a myriad of influences: Brazilian land policies, international conservation efforts, and wildfires, droughts and global warming.

Great Caribbean coral die-off

stbalbach — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:54:49 -0800

The great Caribbean coral die-off. "The 2005 die-off is bigger than all the previous 20 years combined".. magnitude never before-seen.. sea surface temps worst in the 21 years of satellite monitoring. NOAA preliminary reports with cool graphs to left.

specialk420 — Mon, 18 Feb 2002 21:55:21 -0800

Spring feel like it is here a little early this year? does anyone care?

jasonshellen — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:09:26 -0800

California on verge of gutting goals for electric cars, Ed Begley Jr and the rest of California hangs collective heads in shame.