31/8/2010 Guardian Bjorn Lomborg argues in his new book Smart Solutions to Climate Change that global warming should now be addressed ‘as a priority’. Read the rest of this entry »
31/8/2010 BBC The majority of biofuels sold in the UK do not meet an environmental standard. Read the rest of this entry »
31/8/2010 Independent The world is heading for the next major climate change conference in Cancun later this year on course for global warming of up to 3.5C Read the rest of this entry »
31/8/2010 Guardian Bjorn Lomborg: “This chapter accepts the reality of man-made global warming.” Skeptical Environmentalist, 2001 Read the rest of this entry »
31/8/2010 Guardian The world’s most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is “undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today” and “a challenge humanity must confront”, in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby. Read the rest of this entry »
31/8/2010 BBC Harrabin’s Notes: Reform ahead. Read the rest of this entry »
31/8/2010 BBC The IPCC came under fire after using the wrong date for Himalayan glacier melt. Read the rest of this entry »
30/8/2010 BBC Radio 4 (broadcast 9.0am and 9.30pm) Episode 1 Read the rest of this entry »
30/8/2010 Guardian The Homebuilders’ Federation says buyers will not be prepared to pay the premium for a new home added on by the zero carbon ruling. Read the rest of this entry »
30/8/2010 Guardian Friends of the Earth says that biofuel crops, including sugar cane, ‘are competing directly with food crops for fertile land’. Read the rest of this entry »
30/8/2010 BBC The IPCC came under fire after using the wrong date for Himalayan glacier melt. Read the rest of this entry »
26/8/2010 New Scientist Editorial: Liability for climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
28/8/2010 Guardian The head of the UN’s climate science panel did not abuse his position to enrich himself, according to an independent review of his finances by the accountants KPMG that was published publicly for the first time today. Read the rest of this entry »
28/8/2010 In a rare interview, zen buddhist master Thich Nhat Hahn warns of the threat to civilisation from climate change and the spiritual revival that is needed to avert catastrophe. Read the rest of this entry »
28/8/2010 BBC Pilot whale hunting in the Faroe Islands has been going on for generations. Read the rest of this entry »
27/8/2010 Guardian How James Lovelock introduced Gaia to an unsuspecting world. Read the rest of this entry »
27/8/2010 Guardian Monday’s Climate Camp day of action against RBS looked like having all the classic ingredients: Read the rest of this entry »
27/8/2010 BBC The idea that the world needs to double its food production by 2050 in order to feed a growing population is wrong, says Isobel Tomlinson. Read the rest of this entry »
27/8/2010 Guardian “How did you become an activist?” I was surprised by the question. Read the rest of this entry »
26/8/2010 Activist by James Hansen (the world’s most important climate scientist – Editor) http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/ Read the rest of this entry »
26/8/2010 Guardian The amount of material used to make plastic bags has reduced by 39,700 tonnes per year since 2006. Read the rest of this entry »
25/8/2010 Guardian Forecasts that crude oil production will reach 150m barrels a day by 2030 have been described as ‘unrealistic’. Read the rest of this entry »
24/8/2010 BBC There are many different approaches to geoengineering.Even the most extreme geoengineering approaches will not stop sea levels from rising due to climate change, a study suggests. Read the rest of this entry »
24/8/2010 Guardian it was Australia’s second climate change election. Climate change deposed the former leaders of both main parties: Read the rest of this entry »
24/8/2010 Guardian Besides generating about two thirds of the oxygen we breathe, oceangoing phytoplankton — Read the rest of this entry »
23/8/2010 Guardian Climate scientists believe extreme weather events like the recent flooding in Pakistan will become more frequent. Read the rest of this entry »
22/8/2010 Observer Let’s address the air that you breathe: I’m afraid it’s not good. Read the rest of this entry »
18/8/2010 New Scientist Why let your waste go to waste when it could be powering your mobile phone – or even your car? Read the rest of this entry »
18/8/2010 BBC In an era when everything environmental – incuding biodiversity, waste, and fish stocks – is measured with indicators announcing that you will be the UK’s “greenest-ever government” Read the rest of this entry »
17/8/2010 New Scientist By colouring ocean waters, the microscopic plants encourage hurricanes and typhoons. Read the rest of this entry »
17/8/2010 New Scientist Green machine is our weekly column on the latest advances in environmental technologies. Read the rest of this entry »
21/8/2010 BBC The amount of plastic in the Atlantic has not increased much recently. Read the rest of this entry »
19/8/2010 Independent It’s the burning issue Australia’s leaders dare not confront, even on the eve of a general election. Read the rest of this entry »
20/8/2010 Independent A huge expanse of floating plastic debris has been documented for the first time in the North Atlantic Ocean. Read the rest of this entry »
20/8/2010 Guardian The Svartsengi geothermal power plant in Iceland. Read the rest of this entry »
20/8/2010 BBC Mangroves shelter some unique wildlife. Read the rest of this entry »
18/8/2010 Guardian A Pakistani mother carries her children through flood water in Muzaffargarh
city, Punjab province. Read the rest of this entry »
11/8/2010 New Scientist The scandal of food waste is even worse when you consider how much energy is being thrown away Read the rest of this entry »
17/8/2010 Guardian No one is immune to it; in some respects it is the foundation of our lives. Magical thinking is a universal affliction. Read the rest of this entry »
17/8/2010 Guardian A Scottish company has won the contract to build one of the world’s most advanced tidal energy turbines. Read the rest of this entry »
17/8/2010 Guardian Is the UK coalition government now demoting the environment in light of its spending cuts? Read the rest of this entry »
17/8/2010 New Scientist The next best thing to oil. Read the rest of this entry »
17/8/2010 Guardian The reality of nuclear energy is inconsistent with dreams of a renaissance. Read the rest of this entry »
17/8/2010 Guardian Ahmed Djoghlaf says nations risk economic collapse and loss of culture if it does not protect the natural world. Read the rest of this entry »
16/8/2010 Guardian David Cameron and Nick Clegg campaigned for carbon emission cuts at Kingsnorth
power station while in opposition. Read the rest of this entry »
13/8/2010 New Scientist CRUNCH time for the Kyoto protocol is fast approaching. Read the rest of this entry »
13/8/2010 Guardian Last week’s climate change negotiations in Bonn, Germany reportedly marked movement backward on international climate cooperation. Read the rest of this entry »
15/8/2010 Observer The world’s leading climate scientists will gather this week in the United States to hammer out plans to set up an early warning system Read the rest of this entry »
14/8/2010 What Global Warming Looks Like by James Hansen Read the rest of this entry »
14/8/2010 Guardian The AK- 1000 tidal energy turbine, developed by Atlantis Resources, is loaded onto a barge in Invergordon, Scotland. Read the rest of this entry »
14/8/2010 Guardian Plans to set up a network of marine conservation areas and safely build vast offshore windfarms and deep-sea oil rigs around the UK could be hampered or irreparably damaged by spending cuts, Read the rest of this entry »
30/7/2010 BBC The journal Nature this week debates one of the most important questions of our age: how can we feed the Earth’s growing population Read the rest of this entry »
14/8/2010 BBC The AK-1000 will be taken by ship from Invergordon to Orkney. Read the rest of this entry »
14/8/2010 BBC During a solar minimum the Sun produces fewer sunspots and flares. Read the rest of this entry »
13/8/2010 New Scientist BY THE end of the century, up to 82 per cent of today’s tropical forests could be damaged by a combination of climate change and local destruction. Read the rest of this entry »
13/8/2010 New Scientist Russia has sweltered under an intense heatwave since mid-July, recording its highest ever temperatures. Read the rest of this entry »
13/8/2010 Guardian Burying charcoal produced from microwaved wood could offset as much as 12% of global greenhouse gas emissions, research shows. Read the rest of this entry »
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Oreskes, N & Conway E.M Read the rest of this entry »
12/8/2010 BBC Extreme heat and wildfires have led to a blanket of smog over Moscow. Read the rest of this entry »
12/8/2010 Guardian Temperatures in Moscow have now fallen to a more manageable 31C. Read the rest of this entry »
12/8/2010 Guardian In my opening statement at a debate the other night, I had 60 seconds to reach a half-drunk, half-interested
crowd. Read the rest of this entry »
12/8/2010 Guardian Lord Monckton argues that the House of Lords Act 1999, which excluded hereditary peers from
membership of the House of Lords, is ‘defective’. Read the rest of this entry »
11/8/2010 New Scientist When it comes to using plant waste to mitigate climate change, most people think of turning it into ethanol or biodiesel for use as a fuel. But Read the rest of this entry »
11/8/2010 New Scientist Raging wildfires in western Russia have reportedly doubled average daily death rates in Moscow. Read the rest of this entry »
1/8/2010 BBC Satellite images released by Nasa have captured the scale of the ice island that broke off the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland on 5 August. Read the rest of this entry »
11/8/2010 Guardian Greenland’s ice sheet could break up if the temperature rises by as little as 2C. Read the rest of this entry »
11/8/2010 Guardian The 50th ‘superhome’ in Welwyn village. Read the rest of this entry »
10/8/2010 BBC Last year, there seemed to be an unwritten rule in enviro-circles: whenever two or more enviro-folks were gathered together in a place of meeting, talk must turn to biochar. Read the rest of this entry »
Mangroves shelter some unique wildlife.Healthy mangrove forests provide a huge range of environmental benefits Read the rest of this entry »
10/8/2010 Independent Fewer Australians believe that humans are responsible for climate change, Read the rest of this entry »
10/8/2010 Guardian The smog caused by fires outside Moscow are another consequence of a rare meteorological pattern sweeping Eurasia. Read the rest of this entry »
9/8/2010 BBC Global warming is cutting rice yields in many parts of Asia, according to research, with more declines to come. Read the rest of this entry »
7/8/2010 What’s black, squidgy and exhausting to walk on? The answer is peat, the gunk that gives malt whisky its smoky taste and burns sweetly when it’s dried out. Read the rest of this entry »
6/8/2010 Guardian Groups including the Soil Association and Buglife are making a renewed call for an end to the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which are among the most commonly used pesticides worldwide, after a new study linked them to a decline in bee in bee populations. Read the rest of this entry »
5/8/2010 Guardian A breakaway group in the US Chamber of Commerce, which is sceptical about climate change, will push for stronger action on clean energy such as solar. Read the rest of this entry »
9/8/2010 Guardian Huhne announced the plan to allow councils to sell electricity at the LGA conference in June. Read the rest of this entry »
9/8/2010 www.realclimate.org Monckton makes it up. Read the rest of this entry »
7/8/2010 Guardian Scientists say the 100 square mile ice island, 600ft thick, is ‘very
unusual’ and the biggest formation of its kind since 1962. Read the rest of this entry »
7/8/2010 BBC Thousands of icebergs calve from Greenland’s glaciers every year. Read the rest of this entry »
7/8/2010 BBC Developing countries have promised to slow the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. Read the rest of this entry »
2/8/2010 New Scientist It’s bad enough forgetting to recharge your mobile phone overnight Read the rest of this entry »
14/6/2010 New Scientist SUNSPOTS come and go, but recently they have mostly gone. Read the rest of this entry »
6/8/2010 Guardian Global heating: Emissions from cheap coal used to generate power will push up temperatures. Read the rest of this entry »
6/8/2010 Guardian While the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico has been capped, experts claim up to 75% of it is still in the water. Read the rest of this entry »
6/8/2010 Lord Stern, a member of the Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing, warns of catastrophe if countries do not adopt low-carbon economies. Read the rest of this entry »
6/8/2010 Guardian High street stores will advise the government on energy savings to meet its 10:10 pledge. Read the rest of this entry »
6/8/2010 BBC The rapid growth in the global demand for bushmeat is leaving many African species facing the possibility of being eaten out of existence, Read the rest of this entry »
5/8/2010 Guardian How much would you pay for the most biologically rich patch of land on Earth – some 675 sq miles of
pristine Amazon, Read the rest of this entry »
5/8/2010 Guardian Despite repeated pledges to phase out fossil fuel subsidies Read the rest of this entry »
5/8/2010 Guardian Misguided images of sacrifice may be putting people off living more sustainable lifestyles. Read the rest of this entry »
5/8/2010 Guardian The Republican Dan Maes has exposed the dark conspiracy behind bike hire networks Read the rest of this entry »
5/8/2010 Guardian Outside Dr Gilberto Câmara’s office, there is a large and beautiful satellite map of Brazil. Read the rest of this entry »
5/8/2010 Guardian Is it time to retire the term ‘global warming’? Read the rest of this entry »
5/8/2010 Guardian Rich countries have been put on the back foot after new research showed that current pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions could be wiped out Read the rest of this entry »
3/8/2010 Guardian UK’s largest coal-fired power plant could switch to biomass within 10 years could stop burning coal by the end of the decade. Read the rest of this entry »
3/8/2010 Guardian According to the respected International Energy Agency, China’s use of coal,
oil, wind and other sources of power more than doubled in the past decade Read the rest of this entry »
3/8/2010 Guardian We thought it was big, but now we know it is huge – the greatest accidental oil spill in all history. Read the rest of this entry »
3/8/2010 BBC The costs would include changes to energy and transport use by public service workers, and adaptation of public buildings. Read the rest of this entry »
3/8/2010 BBC Porsche has decided to make a limited number of the new hybrid supercar it’s been developing, called the 918 Spyder. Read the rest of this entry »