ENVIRONMENT-GERMANY:  What A Lake Says About Climate Change
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BERLIN, Sep 11 (IPS/IFEJ) - When the East German nuclear power plant Rheinsberg  was shut down almost 20 years ago, environmentalists expected  that fauna and flora in nearby Stechlin lake would survive  without further damage.
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8 November 2004 - The Arctic climate is warming rapidly, much larger changes are in store due to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases from human activity and the global impact such as rising sea levels will be âstaggering,â presenting one
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Major shifts in the British marine environment are being partially driven by climate change, according to a new report.
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WASHINGTON: Greenhouse gases have contributed to a gradual warming of the ecologically-fragile Arctic region, causing massive climate changes, including melting glaciers and sea ice, according to a soon-to-be-released environmental study.
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Scientists have found that the ice in Greenland and the Arctic is melting so rapidly that most of it could be gone by the end of the century. Low-lying lands could be flooded and polar bears could go extinct, among other possibilities.
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Rising sea levels, disappearing glaciers in the Alps and more deadly heat waves are coming for Europeans because of global warming, Europe's environmental agency warned Wednesday.
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By Brian Duggan; Henry Brean  By BRIAN DUGGAN   and HENRY BREAN   REVIEW-JOURNAL   WASHINGTON - Climate change is going to bring big changes to the West, including the dire possibility that Lake Mead could run dry in 10 years, a panel of experts warned senators.
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A large network of waterways helps carry ice from the center of Antarctica to the ocean, scientists say, in a finding that may help clarify how global warming will affect the world's sea levels.
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According to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, the &quot;Arctic climate is now warming rapidly and much larger changes are projected.
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Climate change may carry a higher risk of flooding than was previously thought, the journal Nature reports.
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A sudden influx of freshwater from North America's ancient Lake Agassiz to the North Atlantic 8,200 years ago triggered a precipitous cooling of the region, scientists believe. Now they are trying to predict if and when a similar scenario might happen again.
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The European Environment Agency reported global climate change, including frequent floods, droughts and heat waves, are severe and will continue to worsen.
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Germany urges China to address climate change, but China says it should still be allowed to grow economically.
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BERLIN, May 21 (IPS) - New scientific evidence confirms that human action,  such as carbon emissions causing global  warming, and  industrial-scale search for food, is decimating biodiversity -  and, in some  cases, is driving threatened species to evolve and  adapt at unexpected speed to new living  conditions.
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The European Union's adoption of measures to fight climate change this week could set an example for the United States, China and India, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ At the Golden Gate, the sea is rising.  In the Sierra Nevada, the snowpack is shrinking.  These developments, attributable to a warming climate, threaten one of California's most indispensable resources: water.
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Frogs, butterflies, polar bears, and penguins are dying out from climate change much faster than researchers had previously expected, a new study shows.