30/4/2007 BBC Arctic ice is melting faster than computer models of climate calculate, according to a group of US researchers. Since 1979, the Arctic has been losing summer ice at about 9% per decade, but models on average produce a melting rate less than half that figure. Read the rest of this entry »
29/4/2007 BBC More than 100,000 people in rural India have benefited from an innovative loan scheme that helps families buy home solar power systems, the UN has said. Read the rest of this entry »
29/4/2007 BBC More than 100,000 people in rural India have benefited from an innovative loan scheme that helps families buy home solar power systems, the UN has said. Read the rest of this entry »
27/4/2007 BBC Canada – Environment minister John Baird said Kyoto was too expensive The Canadian government has published its strategy on climate change, which acknowledges that the country will not meet its Kyoto Protocol commitment. Read the rest of this entry »
26/4/2007 BBC Green Room debates -The environmental problems facing the world in the 21st Century are the legacy of human activities, argues Sir David King. Read the rest of this entry »
26/4/2007 BBC The environmental problems facing the world in the 21st Century are the legacy of human activities, argues Sir David King. Read the rest of this entry »
19/4/2007 BBC Tiny they may be, but fossil diatoms discovered deep under the ocean floor are revealing new details about Antarctica’s warmer past. Read the rest of this entry »
19/4/2007 BBC Australia is suffering its worst drought on record Australian PM John Howard has warned that irrigation of much of the nation’s farmland will be banned unless there is heavy rainfall in the next month. Read the rest of this entry »
18/4/2007 BBC Ethanol is made from crops such as sugar beet Ethanol vehicles may have worse effects on human health than conventional petrol, US scientists have warned. Read the rest of this entry »
11/4/2007 BBC VIEWPOINT By Mike Hulme Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research As activists organised by the group Stop Climate Chaos gather in London to demand action, one of Britain’s top climate scientists says the language of chaos and catastrophe has got out of hand. Read the rest of this entry »
10/4/2007 Guardian Comment by George Monbiot “There is climate change censorship – and it’s the deniers who dish it out”. Read the rest of this entry »
10/4/2007 BBC Snowy forests ‘increase warming’ Planting trees in snowy areas may worsen global warming as their canopies absorb sunlight which would otherwise be reflected by the snow, a study says. Read the rest of this entry »
7/4/2007 Guardian Hundreds of millions may be put at risk, says report · Complaints of political interference with findings. Read the rest of this entry »
7/4/2007 Guardian (Felicity Lawrence) Pioneering Welsh town begins the transition to a life without oil. As the supply of cheap fuel dwindles, rural Lampeter embarks on ‘energy descent’. Read the rest of this entry »
6/4/2007 BBC Ben Bradshaw went with a team of officials last year to see how this part of Belgium recycles more than 70% of its household waste. In Lokeren itself, the rate is nearly 80% – more than three times that in England as a whole. Read the rest of this entry »
6/4/2007 Guardian The report published on Friday by the UN’s intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) is the second of three volumes that will together make up the group’s fourth assessment report on the state of the planet. Read the rest of this entry »
6/4/2007 BBC UN panel on climate change “This report clearly assesses the impacts of climate change in different parts of the world,” said Dr Pachauri. Read the rest of this entry »
6/4/2007 BBC The poorest people in the world will be hardest hit by the effects of climate change, experts at a major conference on global warming have said. Read the rest of this entry »
6/4/2007 BBC Billions of people face shortages of food and water and increased risk of flooding, experts at a major climate change conference have warned. The bleak conclusion came ahead of the publication of a key report by hundreds of international environmental experts. Read the rest of this entry »
6/4/2007 BBC Some regions are likely to experience water shortages. Coupled with increasing demand, this is likely to result in large increases in the number of people at risk of water scarcity. It is likely to affect livelihoods, the report by the International Panel on Climate Change says. Read the rest of this entry »
4/4/2007 BBC Rising sea levels are already having an effect on Malta. Rising sea levels could cause increased flooding throughout the world, affecting the lives of millions of people. Read the rest of this entry »