23/1/2008 Guardian Seven months after Britain’s worst summer floods, large areas of Wales, the West Country, the Midlands and Yorkshire have been under water again. Read the rest of this entry »
24/1/2008 The Associated Press Lake Norman, North Carolina – Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate. Read the rest of this entry »
24/1/2008 Guardian Comment by Oscar Reyes – Far from tackling climate change, the EU’s timid plans are rewarding those on the wrong track. Read the rest of this entry »
25/1/2008 Guardian Space imaging gives the lie to Brazil’s recent ‘great achievement’ of halting rainforest destruction. Read the rest of this entry »
24/1/2008 Guardian A blueprint for tackling global warming was put on the table yesterday by the EU, which challenged the US and other big polluters worldwide to join the battle against climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
23/1/2008 Guardian . Town planners and architects were told by NICE to give pedestrians and cyclists priority over cars in towns, and to design staircases that make people want to use them, as part of a radical move to make Britons more physically active. Read the rest of this entry »
The Hot Topic – How to Tackle Global Warming and Still Keep the Lights On, Gabrielle Walker & Sir David King, 2008, Bloomsbury Publ;ishing, ISBN 9780747593959, 300 pg, £9.99 Read the rest of this entry »
24/1/2008 The American Geophysical Union (AGU) warned that changes to the Earth’s climate system were “not natural”. Read the rest of this entry »
Plans to create a new centre for renewable energy could make Tiverton the country’s greenest town. Read the rest of this entry »
21/1/2008 BBC Thought for the Day, “One important factor driving China’s amazing economic development is undoubtedly its population control policy. Heavy fines and taxes are imposed on those couples who have more than one child. But isn’t this a human rights abuse?” Read the rest of this entry »
19/1/2008 BBC The level of the Mediterranean Sea is rising rapidly and could increase by up to half a metre in the next 50 years, scientists in Spain have warned. Read the rest of this entry »
16/1/2008 BBC Climate change is having a major impact on Britain’s coast, the seas around the coast, and the life in those seas, Read the rest of this entry »
15/1/2008 BBC Green Room Comment by Richard Black environment correspondent for BBC News Read the rest of this entry »
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Carbon Detox, George Marshall, 2007, Octapus Publishing, ISBN 978-1-85675-288-6 £7.99 Read the rest of this entry »
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4/1/2008 Guardian Crisis may prime the pumps – explanation of peak oil. Read the rest of this entry »
4/1/2008 Guardian ”40% – Percentage of Calefornia’s overall global warming emissions produced by cars – compared with 20% nationally. Read the rest of this entry »
4/1/2008 Guardian Burning biofuels may be worse than coal and oil – Scientists point to cost in biodiversity and farmland. Read the rest of this entry »
3/1/2008 Guardian Shorter winters weaken forest ‘carbon sinks’. Data analysis reverses scientists’ expectations. Read the rest of this entry »
3/1/2008 BBC A summer of rain but still much warmer than average. Read the rest of this entry »
1/1/2008 BBC 1 January 2008, Japan wants nations to achieve consensus on cutting emissions and is to propose the fight against global warming as a main discussion topic at a Group of Eight nations summit later this year. Read the rest of this entry »