28/4/2010 New Scientist Magazine issue 2758 MORE than 3 kilometres down in part of the freezing Southern Ocean, water is flowing at more than 700 metres per hour, making this the fastest-moving deep ocean current ever found. Read the rest of this entry »
28/4/2010 Guardian Fact File Environment and Transport Summary. Read the rest of this entry »
28/4/2010 New Scientist The world is about to miss another deadline. Read the rest of this entry »
29/4/2010 BBC We’ve known for a couple of years or so that one of the impressive-sounding environmental promises that governments are signed up to – the pledge to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss significantly by 2010 – isn’t going to be met. Read the rest of this entry »
29/4/2010 BBC Threats to biodiversity, such as habitat loss, are still on the increase. Read the rest of this entry »
29/4/2010 Independent Faced with a choice between normal cleaning products and more expensive “green” alternatives, Read the rest of this entry »
29/4/2010 BBC Climate research shows plant methane production ‘small’. Read the rest of this entry »
29/4/2010 Guardian Every time someone pushes the on-button on an electronic device, there is an expectation that the unit will power up quickly and display images in vibrant color. Read the rest of this entry »
Map diagram showing how desert solar power from Africa might power Europe? Click here – Read the rest of this entry »
29/4/2010 Guardina Desertification is a dirty word, but deserts are not entirely without their uses. Read the rest of this entry »
29/4/2010 Guardian Private companies are poised for a surge in demand to take over water supplies, despite widespread opposition to privatisation of what is seen as a life-giving public service. Read the rest of this entry »
29/4/2010 Guardian – Arctic cycle of ice loss is driving temperature rise – the ice will disappear sooner than expected - scientists confirm. Read the rest of this entry »
29/4/2010 Guardian Call for £10m to investigate mystery disease that could have a worse effect than Dutch elm disease. Read the rest of this entry »
29/4/2010 Guardian : Guardian head of environment introduces our environment and transport factfile – and the full dataset behind it. Read the rest of this entry »
29/4/2010 BBC The US Coast Guard says five times as much oil as previously thought could be leaking from a well beneath where a rig sank in the Gulf of Mexico last week. Read the rest of this entry »
27/4/2010 Independent I’d never imagined a career move that would see me stepping gingerly between the crevasses of the Greenland ice sheet, let alone covering a topic like climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
28/4/2010 BBC When you’re deciding whether to get dolled up and head off to the party, do you stop to ask who else might be going? Read the rest of this entry »
28/4/2010 www.realclimate.org Filed under: Climate Scienceskeptics— group @ 28 April 2010. In mathematical proofs, it’s a well-known fact that if at some point you divide by zero accidentally or on purpose, then you end up being able to prove absolutely anything you want Read the rest of this entry »
28/4/2010 Guardian Seven protesters have been arrested by police after chaining themselves to the train line connecting an open cast coal mine with a power station in South Wales. Read the rest of this entry »
28/4/2010 BBC Tackling climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing South Asia. Read the rest of this entry »
27/4/2010 Independent Scientists have used the no-flying period caused by the ash cloud to show for the first time that airports are themselves significant causes of pollution. Read the rest of this entry »
27/4/2010 Independent European countries will be able to use money from a key EU scheme for reducing climate-changing carbon emissions to build new coal-fired power stations, Read the rest of this entry »
27/4/2010 BBC Following the near collapse of the UN climate negotiations in December and the seeming paralysis of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in March,
22/4/2010 New Scientist Magazine issue 2757 The United Nations has made 2010 its Year of Biodiversity. Read the rest of this entry »
26/4/2010 New Scientist Magazine issue 2757 The United Nations has made 2010 its Year of Biodiversity. Read the rest of this entry »
24/4/2010 New Scientist Magazine issue 2757 World grabs more and more toilet paper. Read the rest of this entry »
20/4/2010 Greenpeace — Billboards were put up in Brussels – of European Health Commissioner John Dalli and President of the Commission José Manuel Barroso Read the rest of this entry »
22/4/2010 Guardian Wide streets, bikes in parks, cycling culture … 10 reasons why the German capital is a marvellous place to cycle. Read the rest of this entry »
27/4/2010 Guardian Giant gravel batteries could be the solution to the on-off nature of wind turbines and solar panels. Read the rest of this entry »
27/4/2010 BBC The Australian government has shelved plans for an emissions trading scheme (ETS), the centrepiece of its environmental strategy. Read the rest of this entry »
26/4/2010 The remarks that I made at the Earth Day gathering on the Mall in Washington include discussion of a proposed fee-and-dividend bill, Read the rest of this entry »
26/4/2010 Greenpeace. A few weeks ago, I wondered what became of democracy when a utility company becomes powerful enough to force an Environment Minister to resign. Read the rest of this entry »
EU greenhouse gas emissions – from different sources – graphic. Read the rest of this entry »
26/4/2010 BBC Indonesia is hosting what is being called the world’s biggest geothermal energy conference. Read the rest of this entry »
26/4/2010 Guardian A new research paper from American academics is threatening to blow a hole in growing political support for carbon capture and storage as a weapon in the fight against global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
26/4/2010 Guardian The high visibility roll-out tomorrow of proposed climate change legislation for America collapsed at the weekend after a Republican co-author threatened to withdraw his support for the bill in a row over immigration. Read the rest of this entry »
26/4/2010 Guardian Nick Clegg’s key pledge was to set a target for a zero-carbon Britain. Read the rest of this entry »
25/4/2010 Guardian It’s now a truism – among oil companies, and governments alike – that even in an age when we risk catastrophic climate change, and its attendant catastrophes
such as we’ve seen in the Gulf of Mexico this week, oil exploration is an inevitable part of our future. It may be a truism, but is it true? Read the rest of this entry »
25/4/2010 Guardian The UK cemented its position as the leading player in the global offshore wind energy market today with the announcement that it has attained one gigawatt of installed offshore wind capacity. Read the rest of this entry »
25/4/2010 Guardian Hundreds of delegations from different countries participate in the World. Read the rest of this entry »
25/4/2010 Guardian Bill McKibben is a writer, activist, and co-founder of 350.org. Read the rest of this entry »
25/4/2010 CO2NOW.org In 2009, the average concentration for atmospheric CO2 (Mauna Loa Observatory) was 387.35 parts per million (ppm). Read the rest of this entry »
… , has just received the most prestigious United Nations environmental prize. He was named as one of the winners of the 2010 “Champions of the Earth” award. Read the rest of this entry »
25/4/2010 350 Campaign Yesterday, the Cochabamba Climate Summit wrapped up, Read the rest of this entry »
25/4/2010 BBC Storms in the US state of Mississippi have left at least 10 people, including children, dead. Read the rest of this entry »
23/4/2010 BBC VIEWPOINT Bryony Worthington. Read the rest of this entry »
22/4/2010 New Scientist. Extract – Under Threat: percentage of species that are critically endangered or vulnerable. Read the rest of this entry »
22/4/2010 New Scientist Altered weather patterns may have made the disruption caused by volcanic ash from Iceland worse – and solar variability and climate change could be partly to blame. Read the rest of this entry »
22/4/2010 New Scientist Saving endangered baleen whales could boost the carbon storage capacity of the Southern Ocean, suggests a new study of whale faeces. Read the rest of this entry »
21/4/2010 Guardian Along with the ash and lava, there have been many interesting asides tossed into the air for our consideration by the Eyjafjallajokull volcano. Read the rest of this entry »
22/4/2010 Guardian Pachauri chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Read the rest of this entry »
23/4/2010 Guardian One of the world’s leading climate scientists has launched a libel lawsuit against a Canadian newspaper for publishing articles that he says “poison” the debate on global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
23/4/2010 Guardian Tonight the leaders of the three main political parties in the UK will conduct the second of their three live TV debates ahead of the general election on 6
May. Read the rest of this entry »
23/4/2010 Guardian Guardian climate debate hosted by Ian Katz with Ed Miliband, Greg Clark and Simon Hughes. Read the rest of this entry »
The stoves are made from bricks, metal and rocks. Read the rest of this entry »
22/4/2010 Guardian A secretive group linked to a leading European chemical company has joined the campaign to defeat Barack Obama’s green agenda, taking the fight beyond the traditional players – the big oil and coal firms – the Guardian has learned. Read the rest of this entry »
22/4/2010 Guardian Ed Miliband asked Simon Hughes how the Lib Dems would meet their pledge to cut electricity emissions without nuclear power. Read the rest of this entry »
22/4/2010 BBC ? By Richard Black Watching the enormous plumes of dust and ash rising from Eyjafjallajokull, it is hard to imagine that this almost week-long eruption would not have any effect on
weather and climate. Read the rest of this entry »
21/4/2010 BBC Remember the unseemly rush to biofuels? Read the rest of this entry »
21/4/2010 BBC Pledges made at December’s UN summit in Copenhagen are unlikely to keep global warming below 2C, a study concludes. Read the rest of this entry »
21/4/2010 Guardian The Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, must hand over 40 years’ worth of data on 7,000 years of Irish tree rings. Read the rest of this entry »
21/4/2010 Guardian If you were in charge of energy and climate policy, how would you reduce the UK’s carbon footprint? Build nuclear plants, change farming practices, move
freight on to the railways? Reduce the amount of people flying? Read the rest of this entry »
You can achieve 91% reductions on current carbon emissions – get down to 98 millions tonnes carbon. Read the rest of this entry »
16/4/2010 Guardian Google wants a price on carbon and wants it now — both for lofty reasons like combating global warming, but also because it could be good for business. Read the rest of this entry »
70 members from 62 Academies, from Albania to Zimbabwe. Read the rest of this entry »
19/4/2010 Guardian Airlines are reported to be losing £130m a day due to the ash cloud but the effects of climate change will cost a lot more. Read the rest of this entry »
20/4/2010 Guardian Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano is still pumping ash into the sky, with disruptions to European air traffic expected to carry on into next week. Read the rest of this entry »
30/4/2010 Guardian Act now, or wait for the much more brutal corrective of nature. Read the rest of this entry »
20/4/2010 Guardian The Soil Association says the suggested increase in food production is closer to 70%, rather than the UN’s projected 100%. Read the rest of this entry »
20/4/2010 BBC For the Incas, and most of the Andean civilisations, snow-capped mountains were divinities to be honoured, as they supplied water. Read the rest of this entry »
19/4/2010 Guardian Melting Andes glaciers pose a threat to Bolivians. Read the rest of this entry »
19/4/2010 BBC The amount of water used to produce food and goods imported to developed countries is worsening water shortages in the developing world, a report says. Read the rest of this entry »
19/4/2010 BBC Views of the US around the world have improved sharply over the past year, a BBC World Service poll suggests. Read the rest of this entry »
17/4/2010 BBC The philosopher, writer and recent writer-in-residence at Heathrow airport imagines a world without aircraft. Read the rest of this entry »
17/4/2010 BBC A volcanic eruption in Iceland is continuing to ground flights in the UK and Europe, but 227 years ago a far more devastating eruption occurred wiping out a
fifth of the island’s population – as well as tens of thousands across Europe. Read the rest of this entry »
Jet Stream kinks when sun power is low – graphic. Read the rest of this entry »
14/4/2010 New Scientist Magazine issue 2756 A 2020 vision for global science. WE LIVE in a world that is more interconnected – and more vulnerable – than ever before. Read the rest of this entry »
14/4/2010 New Scientist Magazine issue 2756 If the beleaguered climate scientists of the University of East Anglia have a weakness, it is in their statistics Read the rest of this entry »
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14/4/2010 New Scientist Magazine issue 2756 16:30 15 April 2010 I LIVE in the San Francisco Bay Area, the epicentre of smug green consumerism, Read the rest of this entry »
14/4/2010 New Scientist Magazine issue 2756 BRACE yourself for more winters like the last one, northern Europe. Read the rest of this entry »
14/4/2010 New Scientist Magazine issue 2756 THE first sign that something had gone terribly wrong was a deep rumbling roar. Read the rest of this entry »
24/3/2010 Greenpeace International Dealing in Doubt: The Climate Denial Industry and Climate Science. A Brief History of Attacks on Climate Science, Climate Scientists and the IPCC Read the rest of this entry »
15/4/2010 Guardian The climate scientists at the centre of a media storm over emails released on the internet were disorganised but did not fudge their results, an independent inquiry into the affair reported today. Read the rest of this entry »
15/4/2010 Guardian The damage has been incalculable, but the original sin appears milder by the day. Read the rest of this entry »
15/4/2010 BBC En route from the UN climate talks in Bonn: Read the rest of this entry »
15/4/2010 BBCThe UK and continental Europe could be gripped by more frequent cold winters in the future as a result of low solar activity, say researchers. Read the rest of this entry »
15/4/2010 BBC Airline passengers are facing disruption across the UK as an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcanic eruption drifts towards the country. Read the rest of this entry »
14/4/2010 BBC There was no scientific malpractice at the research unit at the centre of the “Climategate” affair, an independent panel has concluded. Read the rest of this entry »
14/4/2010 Guardian Japan’s whaling ships have returned from the Southern Ocean with their smallest catch in years, prompting the fleet’s leader to blame harassment by the Sea Shepherd marine conservation group for the shortfall. Read the rest of this entry »
14/4/2010 Guardian It is a pleasingly Gallic phrase that brings to mind marauding students and protesting unions. Read the rest of this entry »
14/4/2010 Guardian A massive ice block broke from a glacier and crashed into a lake in the Peruvian Andes, unleashing a 23-metre tsunami and sending muddy torrents through nearby towns, killing at least one person. Read the rest of this entry »
14/4/2010 Guardian Heat loss, shown by this thermal imaging picture, is supposed to be minimised by the new Energy Performance Certificates. Read the rest of this entry »
12/4/2010 Guardian Low carbon energy sources will account for more than a quarter of China’s electricity supply by the end of 2010, according to official statistics released yesterday to the state-backed Xinhua news agency. Read the rest of this entry »
12/4/2010 Guardian Going carbon neutral: State governments are beginning to set the stage for widespread climate action with emissions laws, energy efficiency rules and renewable energy standards, but the hands-on work of actually achieving carbon-neutral status is happening in cities. Read the rest of this entry »
13/4/2010 Guardian Healed – at least temporarily – after a late-night showdown between the US and developing countries. Read the rest of this entry »
12/4/2010 BBC The radar instrument on Europe’s Cryosat-2 spacecraft has been switched on and is reported to be working well. Read the rest of this entry »
12/4/2010 Guardian Sales of organic food, drink and other products slumped by 12.9% in the UK last year as producers battled against a downturn in consumer demand and the worst trading climate for 20 years, new figures reveal today. Read the rest of this entry »
12/4/2010 BBC From the UN climate talks in Bonn:Good news: I’ve had my sins absolved. Read the rest of this entry »
12/4/2010 BBC Prospects of finalising a new binding agreement on climate change by the end of the year are “slim”, according to UN climate convention chief Yvo de Boer. Read the rest of this entry »