Humans said have huge impact on erosion
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Mother Nature may be a force, but nothing like humans when it comes to causing erosion, says a Syracuse University scientist.
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Science & environment: Over-fishing and run-off from agricultural land has caused damage to reefs, says new study
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More rains are on the way across Africa - and already more than a million people across a swathe of 17 countries already suffering the effects of severe floods.
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By Brian McDearmon, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Jun. 22--With more people come more showers, more loads of laundry, more  lawns to water.
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Sir, I hope that all city councillors saw the Country Calendar programme, Saturday January 27. The programme graphically showed the importance of wetlands. Such areas were prolific around our estuaries in 1961. The destruction of our wetlands around Tahunanui, Annesbrook and Stoke horrifies me.
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By MORGAN, Jon  Farmers in slip-affected North Island areas are being asked to change their ways to reduce the damage caused by silt. JON MORGAN reports.   Coffers -- the name conjures up images of big bins filled with treasure and, in a way, that's what they are.
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Human-induced climate change has affected global rainfall patterns over the 20th Century, a study suggests.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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Was it a bird, a plane or a big sodding rock? The largest earth "impact" of recent times, the Tunguska event, might have left a crater after all. The impact levelled more than 2,000 square kilometres of forest in Siberia, but is thought to have been caused by an asteroid or comet exploding in Earth's atmosphere since no crater marking the impact has ever been found. Now researchers at the University of Bologna in Italy think they might have found a scar in the surface of the earth left by the 1908 astro-intrusion.â¦
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The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.
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Many climate systems will undergo a series of sudden shifts this century as a result of human-induced climate change.
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Unique and endangered wildlife living on spectacular limestone outcrops in Southeast Asia face the threat of extinction due to mining and other human impacts, according to a new study.
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Sediment folding may have added to the exceptionally large tsunami that struck Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, according to an international team of geologists.
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REYKJAVIK, Oct 15 (IPS) - Icelandic farmers have found a successful way of  repairing erosion escarpments: they blow cut-up hay at them.
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Science & environment: Project billed as future model for responsible mining in developing world threatens biodiversity and increasing poverty, conservationists say.
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A U.S.-led team of geologists says a phenomena known as sediment folding may have added to the exceptionally large 2004 tsunami that struck Sumatra.
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Locked away in fossils is evidence of a sudden solar cooling. Kate Ravilious meets the experts who say it could explain a 3,000-year-old mass migration - and today&#39;s global warming.